Changing the Culture at British Airways Question #1 Life at “old” British Airways lacked a unifying corporate culture. The 1971 merger of British European Airways (BEA) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)‚ by the British Airways Board‚ only succeeded in putting an umbrella over two separate mature entities. The focus of the BEA had been to build a European airline infrastructure. BOAS was an innovator and pioneered the first jet passenger service. Neither company was concerned with
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MANAGING CULTURAL CHANGE Talent Management British Airways (BA) was formed in 1974 by the merger of the British Overseas Airways Corp (BOAC) and the British European Airways (BEA). BA’s integration did not come without problems. By the early 1980’s BA generated debs in excess of £500m‚ staff discontent and customer dissatisfaction were common denominators across the operational equation and in 1980 the airline topped a list of airlines to be avoided
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goals……………………………………………………………………...………………………………..7 Compromises………………………………………..……………………………………………………………..7 British Airways culture………………………………..………………………………………………………..8 Suggested solutions………………..…………………………………………………………………………….8 Recommendations……………….………………………………………………………………………………9 References..……………………………………………………………………………………………………….10 2 Introduction: What the company does? The British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the UK. Its headquarters is at the waterside near the main hub
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2009 Structural Perspective: British Airways André Costa Choi Sin Man Jiyun Baek 0 1 – Introduction In different working fields‚ companies face the pressure of globalization‚ and they must find new ways to overcome this challenge. The following example‚ introduces the case of British Airways‚ which needs to deal with the globalization issue trying to reduce the operational costs‚ increase profits and provide suitable services to customers. According to British Airways annual report from 2008/2009
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how customer service within British Airways is monitored & evaluated British Airways would monitor their customer service through a number of ways. One example of how they would monitor customer service is through the use of informal customer feedback. This means that they would gather information through informal conversation‚ where the customer is left to express their opinions more comfortably and honestly. British Airways would value the customer’s opinion and use this information to
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must be attached. Assignment Two Case Study Read the information about British Airways. Carry out further research by reading the latest BA annual report and articles related to employee relations at BA. The suggested titles are not exhaustive and you should find further sources. British Airways British Airways was formed in 1974 from its predecessors merging. Theses airlines were the former BOAC and BEA. British Airways was known as the ‘flag carrier’ airline for the UK‚ meaning it was the
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Assignment Case Study Read the information about British Airways. Carry out further research by reading the latest BA annual report and articles related to employee relations at BA. The suggested titles are not exhaustive and you should find further sources. British Airways British Airways was formed in 1974 from its predecessors merging. Theses airlines were the former BOAC and BEA. British Airways was known as the ‘flag carrier’ airline for the UK‚ meaning it was the national airline and owned
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1. What was life like at "old" British Airways? • Employees were embarrassed to mention they worked for the company. • British Airways stumbled into its 1979 state of inefficiency in large part because of its history and culture. • British Airways faced the worst crisis in its history in the late 1970’s early 1980’s. • Unless they took immediate action they were heading for a loss of at least £100 million within that present financial year. • They faced the potential that by that following
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Marketing Research British Airways Survey Spyros Michos Table of Contents 1 The Research 3 2 The Questions 4 3 Research Distribution 4 4 Data Analysis 5 5 Bibliography 6 The Research It is important that the questionnaire should be structured in such a way that it will earn the customer’s trust before moving on to the behavioural questions. The respondents should initially be asked demographic type of questions including age‚ profession‚ purpose of travel and have their gender
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Changing the Culture at British Airways 1. Problems you identified from the case Macro: The first problem changing the culture at British Airways was the merger of the BOAC and BEA. In 1971‚ the Civil Aviation Act became law and the board was to control policy over British Airways but both BOAC and BEA remained autonomous‚ each with its own chairman‚ board‚ and chief executive. This caused a split within British Airways throughout the 1970s and in the mid-1980. The second problem BA faced was
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