Human Resource Management I The history of human resource management has reflected prevailing beliefs and attitudes held in society about employees‚ the response of employers to public policy (for example‚ health and safety and employment standards legislation) and reactions to trade union growth. In the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in Britain‚ the extraordinary codes of discipline and fines imposed by factory owners were‚ in part‚ a response to the serious problem of imposing standards
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Southwest Airlines 2008 Introduction : While the airline industry in the USA has not made thriving financial headlines‚ Southwest Airlines has emerged as a successful organization. It has been able to make profit consistently and has sustained itself through difficult situations like recession‚ energy crisis‚ and September 11 terrorist attacks. Problem Statement : The problem under consideration here is: How can Southwest Airlines achieve a sustainable growth in future in spite of increasing
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Importance to economy The revenue of international airlines industry has increased from 476 billion USD in 2009 to 567 billion USD in 2011‚ a 9.3% year-on-year increase. This industry employs 56.5 million workers and accounts for US $2.2 trillion of the global GDP. Indian Aviation industry contributes to 0.5% of the India’s GDP and generates 1.7 million jobs. Technological Trends Major cost items for airlines are fuel‚ labour and maintenance. Airlines are able to reduce the cost/increase profit by
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Fairuz Abd. Rahim Supervisors: Dr. Chew Yin Teng and Prof. Pervaiz K Ahmed 1. INTRODUCTION Globalization and the turbulent business environment forces many firms‚ multinational corporations and local players to reassess their competitive strategy and proactively create‚ renew and sustain their competitive advantages in the global market place (Ghoshal 1987; Hao 2004; Kogut 1988; Manning & Baines 2004). The resource based view of the company asserts that an organization can achieve sustainable
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about best practice HRM in Malaysia local government organization and performance from employees point of view. Dr Rosmah Mohamed also investigates impact on employees performance based on the motivation‚ job satisfaction‚ organizational citizenship behaviour stress and perceived organizational performance in the organization in Malaysia towards Best Practice of HRM. These factors are the major effects as measurement the employee’s performance. This paper also explained how HRM practices significantly
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Interests Shareholders Management Employee Groups HRM policy HR outcomes Long-Term Government choices Consequences Community Employee Commitment Individual Unions influence Compliance well-being Human resource Congruence Organisational flow Cost effectiveness effectiveness Rewards systems Societal well- Work Systems being Situational Factors Workforce characteristics Business Strategy and conditions Management philosophy Labour Market
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American Airlines: Unsuccessful Firm American Airlines‚ Inc. (AA) is a major airline of the United States and is the world ’s second-largest airline in passenger miles transported‚ passenger fleet size‚ and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation‚ and was founded in 1930. Distribution: American Airlines is headquartered in Fort Worth‚ Texas‚ and operates an extensive international and domestic network‚ with scheduled flights throughout North America‚ Latin
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Airline Industry Introduction The global airline industry has always been an integral part of the world economy due to its major economic force for transportation‚ manufacture‚ technology and other sectors in modern society (Business Vibes‚ 2012). Development of worldwide aviation transportation has meant that the industry has been able to cover virtually every country in the world since 1905. The Airline industry now consists of over 2000 airlines operating more than 23‚000 aircraft that provide
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Seychelles‚ just like others operating in different countries‚ must now operate in a rapidly changing business environment. These changes have important implications for HRM practices. To ensure that management practices support business needs‚ organizations must continually monitor changing environmental conditions and devise HRM strategies for dealing with them. The procedure used to tie human resource issues to the organization’s business needs is called strategic human resource planning. In accordance
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Executive Overview: Lufthansa is the largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. By 2002‚ Lufthansa had become of the strongest airlines and top aviations groups in the world. Lufthansa had undergone a decade of fundamental change. Lufthansa was transformed from a state-owned‚ unprofitable national airline into one of the most profitable‚ privately owned aviation groups in the industry. The group turned a record loss of €350 million in 1992 into a pre-tax profit of €952 million in
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