Company Overview WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian low-cost carrier that provides scheduled and charter air service to 85 destinations in Canada‚ the United States‚ Europe‚ Mexico‚ Central America and the Caribbean‚ and has partnership agreements with over 30 airlines around the world. Founded in 1996‚ it is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier‚ behind Air Canada. (Wikipedia) WestJet is a public company with more than 9‚600 employees‚ is non-unionized and is not part of any airline
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state of OP4.com ’s culture at its Vancouver head office would survive this restructuring. NOTE 1. Source: Jupiter Communications‚ 2000. WESTjET AIRLINES (A): THE CULTURE THAT BREEDS A PASSION To SuccEED Prepared by Ken Mark under the supervision of Professor Gerard Seijts Copyright© 2001‚ lvey Management Services INTRODUCTION It was April 17‚ 2001‚ and WestJet ’s market capitalization had just surpassed that of Air Canada ’s‚ the country ’s leading airline. "We ’re in the hospitality business and
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WestJet Westjet Airline WestJet Airline was founded in 1996 by Clive Beddoe and a team WestJet airlines were started with the philosophy that just because you pay less doesn’t mean you should get less. Clive Beddoe and team started their journey with three aircraft fly to five destinations and 220 friendly WestJetters — a journey that would help them become a company of more than 8‚800 passionate WestJetters flying one of the youngest fleets of Boeing 737 Next-Generation aircraft to more than
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Summary i Table of Contents 1 About WestJet 1 Market Share 2 Domestic 2 International 3 Market Position and SWOT Analysis 5 WestJet Key Financial Ratios 7 Accounting‚ Finance‚ Legal and Environmental Issues 8 Shareholders and Company Ownership 8 Accounting Policy and Internal Control 9 Legal 9 Environmental 11 Investor Recommendations 12 Bibliography 13 THE COMPANY AND ITS POSITION IN THE MARKET Competitive Landscape Markets where WestJet competes: • Airlines • Consumer Services
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Case analysis “WestJet” Introduction. WestJet was established in 1996 in Western Canada. Clive Beddoe‚ Don Bell‚ Mark Hill and Tim Morgan‚ the founders of the company‚ aimed to provide their customers low-cost air travel. Company is based Cangary‚AB‚ and it has its secondary hub in Toronto Pearson International Airport. WestJet operates the most modern and fuel-efficient Boeing 737 aircrafts. WestJet is one of the most profitable airlines in North America. All employees shared in company profits
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Case Analysis WestJet is a Canadian low-cost carrier that provides scheduled and charter air service. Beddoe‚ Bell‚ Hill Morgan and David Neelman believed that there was not only a market for a low-fare carrier in Canada‚ but that they could succeed at bringing this service to the country. They became the founding team of the concept that became WestJet Airlines. WestJet has been very successful with their low-fare strategy. They believe that their culture was the key that helps their
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Lockwood‚ N.R. (2005). Workplace Diversity: Leveraging the Power of Difference for Competitive Advantage. HRMagazine‚ 50(6)‚1. Retrived from EBSCO host This article is an example of how broad diversity within companies has become in current years. The broad definition of diversity includes an employee’s personality and work style to the visible dimensions‚ to secondary dimensions‚ to work diversities (Lockwood‚ 2005). The concept of workplace diversity is changing from compliance to inclusion
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race‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ sexual orientation and capabilities. Nowadays‚ workplace diversity has started to receive wide attention and become an important issue in the business world as diversity in the workplace has increased. As differences are often been associated with discrimination‚ bias‚ unfair treatment and conflicts‚ managing diversity in workforce is an important task for managers today. Managing diversity in the workplace refers to the ways of managers used in ensuring employees in the
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Diversity and Inclusion Diversity is way more than what meets the eye. Just by looking at this picture most people would say that it is a group of African American women standing together and that no diversity exists. However what most people fail to realize is that diversity surpasses an individual race and skin tone. In this picture you have Jasmine who loves children and is studying to be a child psychologist. Then you have Kayla who enjoys horseback riding and the outside life. Next you have
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Managing Careers and Diversity HRM 565: Developing Human Capital Dr. Geraldine Puleo Strayer University December 16‚ 2012 Abstract Susan Jackson states in Diversity in the Workplace: Human Resource Initiatives that‚ “Surveys of business leaders confirm the perception that interest in managing diversity successfully is widespread. In a study of 645 firms‚ 74% of the respondents were concerned about diversity‚ and of these about one-third felt that diversity effected corporate
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