SOUTHWEST AIRLINE IN 2010: CULTURE‚ VALUES AND OPERATING PRACTICES CASE QUESTIONS: 1. Is there anything that you find particularly impressive about Southwest Airlines? Transported more passengers from U.S airports to U.S destinations than any other airline Consistently profitable- had reported a profit every year since 1972 Became a major competitive force in domestic segment 2. What grade would you give Southwest management for the job it has done in crafting the company’s strategy
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FLOW FROM FINANCING Decrease in long-term debt (12.9) Net cash flow from financing ($12.9) Net increase (decrease) in cash ($10.0) Beginning cash 37.2 Ending cash (calculated) $27.2 Actual ending cash (Check figure) $27.2 2. Use the Du Pont equation to obtain a rough feel for Commonwealth’s financial condition as compared to national averages. What are your conclusions? Du Pont Analyses: 2012 2013 Ind. Avg. Total margin 3.67% 5.73% 2.90%
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Management 364 A‚ Workforce Planning and Employment Case 7 Personnel selection and assessment activities are integral parts of this organizational life. Tanglewood’s economic climate has seen an ever increasing level of staff turnover and personnel reorganization‚ and the abolition of the traditional view keeping a ’a job for life. Consequently‚ there is now more pressure on this organizations and HR managers to fill vacant positions quickly and with the most appropriate individuals. Decisions
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communication is most powerful tool it should be used effectively or it can cause self-inflicted harm. Here the term effective communication isn’t about pushing information to audience. Strategy is a process of ordered thinking: of thinking in the right order. 2. What subliminal messages did Bill Gates’ send to audience at DEC World? Bill Gates regaled his audience with tales of his house. He was utterly likable and his talk featured no discussion of business or computer technology especially of DEC. According
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Tanglewood Recruiting Tanglewood Recruiting Strategies Based on the historical recruiting methods the Tanglewood stores have a couple of key issues associated with the hiring of new employees in order to provide the customer service and run their organization in a profitable manner. The corporate executives need to establish an employment brand message‚ and also allow the regional managers to utilize the methods of recruitment and management styles they believe work best in their geographic
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Table of Contents Internal Control: Avoiding the Next Catastrophe To quote Edmund Burke “Those who don’t know history‚ are doomed to repeat it”. Here we are‚ thirteen years removed from the Enron scandal. The aftermath led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and stricter regulations on companies going public. People have a tendency to believe that things like this can only happen to massive companies‚ but we must remember that Enron once started off as a small company‚ a company like LJB
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Tanglewood Case 5: Disparate Impact Analysis Recruitment and Selection HRM 450 Current Needs Assessment Tanglewood prides itself on encouragement of diversity in the workplace. All hiring and promotion decisions should be made on the basis of character and quality of work. The ensuing lawsuit brings about a need to analyze Tanglewood’s selection strategies to ensure these practices are not hindering the promotion of diversity. In order to do this‚ it is necessary to study the flow and
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Do a brief market opportunity analysis for Disney‚ identifying the major markets that Disney has expanded into The market opportunity analysis endeavors to estimate the size and sales potential of a specific market segment of interest to you as a franchisee while also assessing key competitors in the specific market segment. It is important as a franchisee that you take the time to analyze your market opportunity in a specific target market area: Movie‚ Music‚ and TV shows. It’s obvious that
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Case Study 2: Xerox [Type the document subtitle] 10/7/2014 Organizational Behavior Fall 2014 Professor Falcone Case 2: Xerox Q 1: How would Xerox define Diversity? How has the definition changed over the years? A 1: Diversity means more than race and gender. Diversity means creating an environment where all employees can grow to their fullest potential. The first chairman of Xerox‚ Johnson C. Wilson had the commitment to diversify. Chairman Wilson took proactive steps to create
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HBR Case Study BY JOHN HUMPHREYS‚ ZAFAR U. AHMED‚ AND MILDRED PRYOR World-Class Bull Inspired sales ploy or ethical breach? be kidding me‚ Sam‚” Jeremy sputtered. “Chris brought in the single biggest piece of business we’ve won here in more than two years. He’s our top performer! He broke that logjam with Armadillo! He was absolutely brilliant!” From the window of his 10th-floor office at Specialty Fleet Services‚ sales vice president Jeremy Silva spied two of the bright yellow repair trucks of Armadillo
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