| 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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QANTAS DISPUTE On October 22nd‚ 2001‚ the Industrial dispute between QANTAS and its employees was initiated with the offering of a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. This proposed an 18-month wage freeze for employees plus a sliding scale profit share scheme. Ten out of twelve unions under QANTAS accepted the terms of the agreement‚ barring the unions of manufacturing employees (AWU and AMWU). They were holding out for a 4-6% pay rise. On the 8th May 2002‚ some ten months later‚ the dispute was
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Qantas in the Airline Industry Air travel industry has come long way. Established with the intention of achieving more efficiency in communication‚ the industry has diversified itself to a far reaching economy. With the advent of war during the mid-centuries and globalization by the end of last century‚ the commerce morphed itself to become more useful in the economies of communication‚ freight‚ domestic and international investments‚ travel and leisure. Qantas which were among the
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Summary Qantas is one of the most recognised and longest running Australian companies. It is the world’s second oldest airline‚ and has a successful history to uphold (Qantas Web Site‚ 2008). Identification of target markets is imperative to Qantas’s success. Mortished (2003) explains that Qantas uses Behavioural segmentation to select its target market. This allows for the market to be divided and products and advertising to be specifically aimed at the most responsive customers. Qantas divides
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choice but to drop their prices or create a new branches that cater to that market segment in order to compete. It has not been a good year for Qantas. The Airline has claimed its first quarter loss. The timing of the loss comes as very odd‚ as the first quarter is usually the time they make their profit. Competition is also a huge problem for Qantas. Its on-going capacity and price war with Virgin Blue is making the airline slumped even
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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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Qantas Aggressive New Strategy Alejandro Trujillo BA 514 April 26‚ 2012 2 Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 3 Qantas Group structure .................................................................................................................. 4 Expansion Into Asian Market ....................................................................................
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Part A--The Case of Qantas Executive Summary This report is analysis of information on should the Qantas need extra flight for its new route to Europe. In part A of this assessment‚ firstly‚ all of the marketing decision problem‚ marketing research problem and research objectives will be determined and identified. It will then use the mixed methods the focus group of qualitative research and survey methods of quantitative research to analyse the perception and attitude of the Qantas passengers‚ and generalize
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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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Improving Margins: As economic showing a significant progress‚ Qantas margins are also improving. • Diversified Business : Qantas range of subsidiary business operates in different sector but all of them supporting airlines industry’s activity‚ such as catering‚ baggage handling and engineer. This also helped them to control supplier and aircraft maintenance cost. • Oneworld Alliance Oneworld Alliance is a management company founded by Qantas‚ American Airlines‚ British Airways‚ Canadian Airlines and
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