Southwest Airlines: Using Human Resources for Competitive Advantage Executive Summary Southwest was founded in 1971 with a fleet of three Boeing 737 aircraft. Headquartered at Love Field in Dallas‚ the airline followed a strategy of low fares‚ few frills‚ and excellent customer service. Early on‚ the airline faced many political and regulatory challenges including the Wright Amendment‚ which prohibited the carrier from offering direct service into Love Field from any state other than Texas
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would worry about; however it soon could be a reality due to hydraulic fracturing and the lack of federal regulations. Although there are some initial benefits to fracking‚ including more access to natural gas‚ more jobs‚ less dependence on other countries for gas and lower gas prices. What are the long term effects it will have? Is it worth the risk? Is this the new reality we are faced with or is there something that can be done before it is too late? These are just some of the issues I will discuss
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Risk This assignment will critically evaluate theories of risk‚ and consider the approaches to practice for the role of a local authority social worker in the identification‚ assessment and management of risk of social work with children‚ young people and families. There will be consideration given to the impact of social work practice on service users and carers including my understanding of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice. The idiom ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t’
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Today‚ we live in a world where people are obsessed in appearance. Some people suffer from low self-esteem and most of them believe that it was caused by their ’imperfect body’. In the modern age‚ people are attracted to the ‘perfect bodies’ of supermodels‚ actors‚ and actresses. The effect of it: people undergo plastic surgeries to acquire those model-like bodies. Plastic surgery is a medical operation wherein a part in a body is changed‚ repaired or restored. There are two types of plastic surgery:
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questionable living standards. In 1978‚ China began the transition from a planned market economy to a more capitalistic‚ free market economy. Ever since then‚ numerous reform policies have been implemented and Liou (2010) says that these policies lead to an: Increase economic growth and improve the quality of public life. These policies have promoted private business development in China and have gradually changed the Chinese system from a totally government-controlled planning system to a market-oriented
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scenarios. (c‚ d) Simple hardware modifications allow active illuminated near infrared images to be captured from the camera. (e‚ f) This is used as input into our machine learning algorithm for depth estimation. (g‚ h) Our algorithm outputs dense metric depth maps of hands or faces in real-time. Abstract 1 We present a machine learning technique for estimating absolute‚ per-pixel depth using any conventional monocular 2D camera‚ with minor hardware modifications. Our approach targets close-range
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There are many ways for a company to benefit from assessing their control procedures. Internal controls are operating practices that are established to provide reasonable assurance that specific objectives will be achieved and every employee in the organization is responsible for internal controls. Implementing internal controls will help your business reach its performance and profitability targets‚ and most importantly prevent loss of resources. Internal Controls help to ensure reliable financial
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We have a personal responsibility to the natural world to take care of our natural resources. If our natural resources fail‚ we will in turn have failed our decedents by leaving behind a life that is harder to live. Imagine that water is limited to the point that there is only one source on the planet. Imagine that the air is full of pollutants because trees are almost extinct. What kind of future do we want to leave our kids‚ grandkids‚ and great grandkids? The future of our fresh water supply
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the effects of acid rain in the growth of cress seedlings IntroductionAcid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation‚ which is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants‚ animals and buildings. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulphur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. Acid rain can slow the growth of vulnerable forests and cause leaves and needles to turn brown and fall off. In addition‚ it depletes minerals from the soil and then
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Term Paper on “Assessing risk from financial statements: An Essay” Submitted to: Prof. V.K Gupta Submitted by: Pankaj Gupta (FPM 1109) Abstract This paper presents insights for assessment of accounting risk from financial statements. Financial statement is only a source of information for external users not the exact presentation of the activities of a firm. The main purpose of this paper is to highlight those accounting variables which are needed to estimate the risk profile of a firm and
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