British Airways Analysis
Introduction
Stakeholder is a person having direct or indirect interest in the firm’s objective, which include customer, board of directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers etc. They track the satisfaction of various constituencies who have critical interest in and impact on the company’s performance (Kotler Keller,2012). Take gate gourmet as an example it is the supplier of British airways, as a stakeholder it plays an important role in the development of the firm whereas it is also crucial to assess the stakeholder for maintaining the long-term relationships. There are three main connection features, which drives the value of the stakeholders. This essay will map British Airways stakeholders as well as the ethical concerns it has dealt with from its different stakeholders
Background of British Airways
The group of British airways comprises of British airways plc and various other subsidiary companies. It is one of the great airlines in the world, which provides its customers transportation services up to 149 destinations in 72 countries. In the year 2004-2005, it succeeds in carrying 35 million passengers and 900,000 tons of the cargo. The network of the airline is centered in United Kingdom where it has a network of its 85% workforce working there. The core activity of the British airways and its group is to provide international and domestic scheduled airline services for the passengers, post mail, and provision of additional services.
British Airways has a variety of stakeholders and most of them are considered dominant. Likewise the code of conduct in British Airways with respect to ethics is been made applicable to the entire stakeholders, which primarily consists of its employees, customers, suppliers, financial institution, local communities and directors of British Airways Plc and its subsidiary companies. It is however strictly been discussed with each employee at the time of recruitment and failure to do so will lead to punishment and or
Stakeholder is a person having direct or indirect interest in the firm’s objective, which include customer, board of directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers etc. They track the satisfaction of various constituencies who have critical interest in and impact on the company’s performance (Kotler Keller,2012). Take gate gourmet as an example it is the supplier of British airways, as a stakeholder it plays an important role in the development of the firm whereas it is also crucial to assess the stakeholder for maintaining the long-term relationships. There are three main connection features, which drives the value of the stakeholders. This essay will map British Airways stakeholders as well as the ethical concerns it has dealt with from its different stakeholders
Background of British Airways
The group of British airways comprises of British airways plc and various other subsidiary companies. It is one of the great airlines in the world, which provides its customers transportation services up to 149 destinations in 72 countries. In the year 2004-2005, it succeeds in carrying 35 million passengers and 900,000 tons of the cargo. The network of the airline is centered in United Kingdom where it has a network of its 85% workforce working there. The core activity of the British airways and its group is to provide international and domestic scheduled airline services for the passengers, post mail, and provision of additional services.
British Airways has a variety of stakeholders and most of them are considered dominant. Likewise the code of conduct in British Airways with respect to ethics is been made applicable to the entire stakeholders, which primarily consists of its employees, customers, suppliers, financial institution, local communities and directors of British Airways Plc and its subsidiary companies. It is however strictly been discussed with each employee at the time of recruitment and failure to do so will lead to punishment and or
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