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    Southwest Airlines Case

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    Southwest Airlines Case Study 1. Company Overview Southwest airlines began in 1967 as a low-cost‚ low-fare‚ customer-friendly air service shuttling passengers between San Antonio‚ Dallas and Houston‚ Texas. Founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher‚ Southwest moved from a small commuter transport of 18 round trip flights within Texas to a bustling market share leader providing more domestic flights than any other airline within the industry. Within two years of its first flight the airline

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    Case 3-1: Southwest Airlines Corporation What is Southwest’s strategy? What is the bases on which Southwest builds its competitive advantage? Cost cutting SWAC uses a low-cost strategy. They had the lowest operating-cost structure in the domestic airline industry. Employee satisfaction Together with this strategy‚ they want to achieve customer satisfaction by employee satisfaction. They are famous for their customer and employee relationship. SWAC has been recognized by multiple organizations

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    Southwest Airline Analysis The goal of this paper is to explain the prominent success of Southwest Airline in the United States through a single case study analysis making use of the McKinsey’s 7-S framework. Developed in the early 1980s at the McKinsey & Company consulting firm by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman‚ this framework looks at 7 internal factors (Structure‚ Strategy‚ Systems‚ Style‚ Staff‚ Skills‚ Super-ordinate goals) which‚ according to its authors‚ need to be aligned for an organization

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    Leadership of Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines is often a modeled by other companies for its organizational structure. Organizations that have an effective management team are successful in developing a strong organizational culture‚ utilizing managerial controls‚ and leveraging diversity. Effective management teams are developed by cultivating leadership skills in those that supervise the company’s associates. Organizations want managers that can motivate their associates to achieve the

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    Southwest Airlines Co

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    EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31‚ 2013 or ¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from ________ to ________ Commission File No. 1-7259 Southwest Airlines Co. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) TEXAS 74-1563240 (State or other jurisdiction of (IRS Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) P.O. Box 36611 Dallas‚ Texas 75235-1611 (Address of principal

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    Southwest Airlines Union

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    Introduction Southwest Airlines is a company that aims at having happy management‚ employees and customers. Unlike some companies‚ Southwest welcomes the idea of their employees being members of a labor union‚ agreeing that they need someone to speak for them in an effective way. Sure there are still some issues and differences that need to be worked out but that is what the union is there for. Review/Analysis of the Case As with any relationship‚ there is going to be goals and issues that the

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    The Differences of Strategic Positioning Between Southwest Airlines Corporation and Continental Airlines Nowadays‚ Porter’s 5 Rules of Strategic Positioning as a most common business theory plays a significant role in operating companies and planning business activities. Southwest Airlines Corporation (Southwest) proves that clearly by its success. And the year-end results of Southwest marked 29 consecutive years of making profit (Govindarajan and Lang‚ 2002). I will elaborate how the Porter’s 5

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    Southwest Airlines Report

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    Introduction: Southwest Airlines path towards earning the right to fly was a long and stressful process for everyone involved. However‚ the staff’s ability to overcome all odds truly began the formation of Southwest’s distinct character‚ which makes the company so successful today. Founders Rollin King and Herb Kelleher who founded the company in 1967‚ among others were attacked by Texas airlines such as Braniff‚ and Continental‚ claiming the market was already saturated. After three years of

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    Southwest Airlines

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    Chapter 13 is titled “Scheduling Operations” and it is mainly about scheduling decisions for batch operations and how they deal with the allocation of scarce resources to jobs‚ activities‚ tasks‚ or customers. “Scheduling results in a time-phased plan‚ or schedule‚ of activities. The schedule indicates what is to be done‚ when‚ by whom‚ and with what equipment. Scheduling should be clearly differentiated from aggregate planning” (Schroeder‚ pg. 293). Chapter 14 is titled “Project Planning and

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    Industry IT Survey Project For Southwest Airlines Prepared for Rick‚ Turley CIS600: Information Technology and Project Management Prepared by Amr‚ Mutlaq Colorado State University April‚ 17th‚ 2013 Overview Southwest Airlines Co is a major U.S airline and the world’s largest low-cost carrier‚ headquartered in Dallas‚ Texas. It was established in 1967 and adopted its current name in 1971. The airline has more than 46‚000 employees as of August 2012 and operates more than 3‚400

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