CASE STUDY ASSESSMENT 2: QANTAS INTERNATIONAL 1.0 INTRODUCTION All over the nation‚ news of Qantas’ restructuring of Qantas International (QI) has reached ears of many Australians and many have voiced out their concerns on the matter. Qantas International has been the weak link in the operations of Qantas group compared to its domestic‚ freight‚ low-cost carrier Jetstar and frequent flyer businesses. Qantas’ new strategy involves expanding its base of operations into the Asian region to capture
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Qantas Globalisation Introduction (Introduction to case/Case background) - In July/August of 2011‚ three unions‚ the Transport Worker’s Union‚ Australian and International Pilots Association and the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association began to take industrial action against Qantas‚ demanding better pay and conditions for engineers‚ pilots and groundworkers to account for the rise in the rate of inflation. - Admist the existing dispute between Qantas and the unions‚ CEO Alan Joyce
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Qantas dispute heads to umpire‚ more pain possible Kelly Burke‚ Matthew O ’Sullivan‚ Jessica Wright November 22‚ 2011 [pic] Alan Joyce… “the winners out of this are our customers”. Photo: Dallas Kilponen THE Qantas dispute will drag into next year and there is a threat of further legal action‚ with negotiations between the three unions and the airline collapsing within hours of the mandated deadline. Despite a push by the Transport Workers Union to extend the 21-day negotiation period‚ yesterday
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| Qantas: The Context of Change Today’s organisations find themselves operating in an ever volatile changing global environment and as such need to be able to implement both incremental and transformational organisational change to ensure the organisations long term sustainability (Waddell‚ Cummings‚ & Worley‚ 2011‚ p. 2).This essay will focus on the Qantas Group which operates in the aviation industry and has recently been challenged to change in the face of increasing internal and external
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industrial dispute between Qantas and the trade unions in 2011. The key questions include: _(1) WHAT WERE THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE QANTAS DISPUTE IN 2011? (2) WHAT DOES IT ILLUSTRATE ABOUT CHANGING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN AUSTRALIA?_ To address the question (1)‚ there is an analysis of the interviews and documentary evidence to explain the causes and consequences of the Qantas dispute. To the question (2)‚ it applies theories of industrial relation to the Qantas case in order to give a clearer
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SWOT analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search A SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation of an organization or individual requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. It involves monitoring the marketing environment internal and external to the organization or individual. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey
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Introduction Qantas Airlines‚ initially known as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS)‚ was founded by two former war pilots‚ Wilmot Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness‚ in 1920 at Queensland‚ Australia. Qantas is the flag carrier airline for Australia and it is the second oldest airlines in the world. Qantas Airlines headquarters is located in Mascot‚ Sydney‚ New South Wales with its major hub at Sydney Airport. The airline began with joy flights in 1920 and by 1922
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the terms Physiological‚ Safety‚ Belongingness and Love‚ Esteem‚ and Self-Actualization needs to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through.(King‚2009). We have analyzed our company and divided its needs into 5 main features. Qantas(Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) is one of the oldest air company in the world‚ KLM is the only company elder. They provide their services over 90 years and the politic of this global‚ world famous company show us their ability
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such as Qantas Airways and Virgin Blue‚ and three minor players such as Regional Express‚ Skywest and Tiger Airways (IBISWorld‚ 2010). 2.0 External Analysis External analysis is used to analyze the external environment of an organization to identify any threats and opportunities‚ which is part of SWOT (Hill‚ Jones Galvin & Haidar‚ 2007). This part of the essay will be looking at what challenges Qantas faces in the 21st century. 2.1 Macro Environmental Analysis Macro environmental analysis is used
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Management Analysis page 3 3) QANTAS human resource planning strategy page 3 4) Key human resource planning issues page 4 4.1) A flexible workforce 4.2) Improving productivity 4.3) Increasing workplace safety 4.4) Recruit internally for future human resource needs 5)SWOT of Qantas page 5 5.1) Strength 5.2) Weaknesses 5.3) Opportunities 5.4) Threat 6) Recommendation page 6-7 7) References page 8 1) Introduction The Qantas Airway
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