at Air India will not abate the airline’s financial woes ANJULI BHARGAVA 08 May 2009 | Not Profitable: Many believe Air India does not need all the planes it has ordered (Pic by: Satheesh Nair) | Even as Air India goes through a messy change in leadership, the airline’s financial position is becoming untenable — the financial losses for the year ending March 2009 are estimated at Rs 4,200 crore, according to top airline sources. The airline’s working capital limit is Rs 15,000 crore
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Virgin Atlantic Marketing Case Study Presented by Donal Manning James E. Salter Andre Tuinzing Prepared for Professor Enda McGovern Dominican University of California iii Virgin Atlantic Airlines Manning/ Salter/ Tuinzing Table of Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS………...…………………………………………………..IV EXECUTIVE SUMMARY……………………………………………………………….V HISTORY OF VIRGIN ATLANTIC ................................................................................. 3 B ACKGROUND .....................
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conventional thinking on a subject not upside down but inside out. So it is with this landmark piece by Ronald Heifetz and Donald Laurie, published in January 1997. Not only do the authors introduce the breakthrough concept of adaptive change – the sort of change that occurs when people and organizations are forced to adjust to a radically altered environment – they challenge the traditional understanding of the leader-follower relationship. Leaders are shepherds, goes the conventional thinking,
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The British Airways Debacle 1. From the perspective of organizational development; there should be a planned, top-down, organizational-wide effort to increase the organizational effectiveness and health. On the other hand the wild cat strike happened because there was forced imposition. There was a unilateral decision taken to introduce swipe cards (Palmer, Dunford, & Akin, 2009). It was not thought out well because it was introduced at the beginning of the summer quarter, which is also at
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available to limit such exposure. The value of a firm’s assets, liabilities and operating income changes continuously due to change in factors such as exchange rates, interest rates, inflation etc. In other words, a firm is “exposed” to uncertain changes in a number of variables in its environment. Exposure may therefore be defined as a measure of sensitivity of the value of a financial item to changes in the macro economic variables mentioned above. Risk refers to the variability of the value of
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Registration No: P15/04/DL9235 Section A Part One Multiple Choices: 1. c – Ethnocentrism 2. d – Job Description 3. b – Minimum Wages Act, 1948 4. b – Placement 5. b – Training 6. a – Planned Change 7. d – Performance Management System 8. c – Rating Scale 9. a-Human Resources 10. c- Management Game Part Two: Q1. Importance of Career Planning: ❖ It attracts and retains talent by offering careers, not
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effectively aligned and allow organisation to achieve its objectives. We learnt about approaches to assess organisational effectiveness and the differences between effectiveness and efficiency. Efficient organisations are not necessarily effective. Change and complexity in the external environment have major implications for organisational design and management action. Organisational environment differs in terms of uncertainty and
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Overview Case Study #2 is centered around the reaction to a change initiative taken by British Airways (BA) in July of 2003. BA was implementing a new electronic time-keeping system that would use swipe cards to record when their employees began and finished work each day. As an act of protest, the staff from two terminals at Heathrow Airport in London went on a 24-hour strike that cost BA £40 million and 100,000 customers. The general consensus from commentators was that BA management made a huge
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2010558697 Contents ABSTRACT 3 KEYWORDS 3 INTRODUCTION 4 OVERVIEW OF AVIATION PRIVATIZATION IN EUROPE, AFRICAN AND ASIAN COUNTRIES 5 Argentina – Its pitfall and the problems behind it 5 Turkey – A Privatization through BOT 7 Kenya Airways – A Successful Story 9 Malaysian Airlines Considering Privatization 10 Germany-Fully privatized and partially privatized 12 Privatization in United Kingdom 14 IMPLICATION OF PRIVATIZATION 16 RECOMMENDATIONS 17 REFERENCES 18 ABSTRACT
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