Southwest Airlines Company: Leadership Profile Jim Darling‚ Amie Rainbolt‚ Melissa Blouin‚ and Meleanie Cabrera University of Phoenix LDR/300 June 18‚ 2013 Sharon Patterson Southwest Airlines Company: Leadership Profile Team A will discuss how Southwest Airlines president can recruit and develop the airlines future leaders. Even though there is a proposal to avoid managerial derailment and failure for Southwest Airlines. They can compare-and-contrast of common leadership traits in the airline industry
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publicly criticized for improving their firm’s bottom line at any moral or social cost. Ethics essentially “refers to the issues of right‚ wrong‚ fairness and justice.” Clearly‚ examples such as Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and even Conrad Black tested society’s views on sound ethical business and the link to what society sees as “good” governance practices. Although the controversies involve issues matched in variety only by the types of companies‚ they all virtually involve some form of abuse of stakeholders trust
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Hanson Ski Products - Projected Quarterly Balance Sheets (in $ thousand) 3/31/86 Assets Current Assets Cash Receivables‚ Net Inventories Prepaid Expenses Total Current Assets Fixed Assets Plant‚ Property‚ & Equipt (Less) accum depreciation Total Net Fixed Assets Other Assets Total Assets Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity Current Liabilities Accounts Payable Notes Payable - banks Income Taxes Payable Current Installments - lt debt Total Current Liabilities Long Term Debt Term Loan Notes Payable
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Two Southwest Airlines Incidents. Two more similar incidents occurred in 2009 and 2011 to two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 aircrafts. The fuselage ruptured in the similar areas due to corrosion and lap joint issues‚ but at a far lesser severity than that of Aloha Airlines Flight 243. The incidents occurred to Southwest Flight 2294 on July 13‚ 2009 and to Southwest Flight 812 on April 1‚ 2011‚ where both aircrafts made emergency landings safely with no injuries (Irving‚ 2011). Southwest Flight
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Southwest Airlines‚ Key Facts: Niche strategy. Concept: Concentrate in underutilized airports 1 type of aircraft fuel-efficient 737 (1994 more that 200 planes) Frequent‚ on-time departures Low cost fares‚ only 2 types of fares per root No seats assigned‚ no meals Point-to-point roots Higher equipment initialization‚ shorter turn-around times Competitive advantage: Cost structure "The workforce is dedicated to the company. They’re Moonies basically. That’s the way
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Recently the terms "governance" and "good governance" are being increasingly used in development literature. Bad governance is being increasingly regarded as one of the root causes of all evil within our societies. Simply put "governance" means: the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented). Since governance is the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented‚ an analysis of governance focuses on the formal
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Discussion of case study 2 2.1 Identification of the Ethical and Governance issues raised in the case study 2 2.2 Critical analysis of the main ethical and the governance issues raised in the case study 5 2.3 An evaluation of the conditions that enabled the issues identified to arise 7 2.4 Recommendations to the company 9 3 Conclusion 11 4 References 12 Introduction Apple is one of the most successful companies to date‚ they have dominated most of
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ESSAY Can Corporate Governance Mechanism Prevent Corporate Fraud? Executive Summary This paper will reviews the extent to which corporate governance acts as efficient tool to protect investors against corporate fraud‚ thus contributing to summarize the literatures on role of corporate governance on preventing occurrence of corporate fraud. In a more recent study‚ corporate fraud is part of earnings manipulation done outside the law and standards. Whereas‚ the activities
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that buy expensive tickets just to have all the comfort that others airlines offer‚ Southwest decided to do the opposite and selling just the transportation itself for the lowest price it could be just so you could get to places without paying too much for it. They kept it simple and inexpensive. 2 – What values do airline customers – both business and leisure travelers – seek when they buy air travel tickets? Has Southwest done a better job than competitors of meeting the needs of these air
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Southwest Airlines: Organizational Commitment and Communication Paper Communications for Accountants COM/530 Southwest Airlines: Organizational Commitment and Communication Paper Southwest Airlines’ strong organizational culture is reflected in its mission as shown in its website: “dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual pride‚ and Company Spirit.” Southwest is a company that not only excels in customer service
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