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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 the threat of privatization. In 1984 the government passed legislation that made BA a public limited company. The third was productivity was bad compared to other leading foreign airlines. The fourth was poor service. Poor customer service

In 1972, AVX was constructed as a secondary to manufacture ceramic capacitors. AVX Ceramics incorporated was accepted and in 1973 AVX sold name and non-ceramic business ,so it changed to AVX corporation. When assests of Aerovox were sold , AVX became the parent company. Marshall D. Butler became chairman and CEO and need to responsible

The three major challenges that arose after the merger were the following: firstly, the companies needed to integrate their flight information systems. Secondly, they needed to integrate their passenger information systems. Finally, there was a need to reconcile both airlines speedup-slowdown algorithms.

The situation they have is before they begin their expansion they want to evaluate the firm’s financial health. Harper & Reiman need to examine on liquidity, profitability, the risk occurring from the debts financing and the rate of return; good sense of sources and use of cash flow these are all great financial situation to examine.

Q&A: Based on the material covered in this chapter what questions would you ask the firm’s founders before making your funding decision? What answers would satisfy you?

Austin being a leader instead of a manager is how she leads and inspires not only her students, but other faculty members as well (Wren, 1995, p. 8-10). There was a time when I attended the Virginia High School League States Debate Competition with my debate coach, another Midlothian High School English teacher (Cheatham, personal communication, April 20, 2014). During one of the round breaks, my coach and I happened to get on the topic of English teacher (Cheatham, personal communication, April 20, 2014). It was then that my coach raved about Mrs. Austin and the personal impact she has had on his own teaching methods and ways to motivate students that are dragged down by SOL tests and public school standards (Cheatham, personal communication, April 20, 2014). In this experience, Mrs. Austin solidified her leadership capabilities of motivating and inspiring anyone around her to work harder and be better at anything one does. Overall, Mrs. Austin knows how to properly handle coping with change. She knows how to be a leader, not a manager (Wren, 1995, p.

1. Identify the key factors responsible for the success of Gordon Biersch to date. What concerns, if any, do you have as the company looks ahead?

1. Assess Interco’s financial performance. Why is the company a target of a hostile takeover attempt?

Open-ended questions such as these will generate energy in the class, though the instructor should take care to limit the amount of time spent in this phase of the class, since students will find it easy to offer observations about the firm’s apparent strategy and financial performance. By letting the students assess the problems of this company in a nondirective fashion, the instructor can gauge students’ abilities and build students’ “ownership” of the analysis. The next three questions are a directive approach to problem assessment and could supplement this question or be used in place of it.

1. Assess Interco's financial performance. Why is the company a target of a hostile takeover attempt?

There definitely was a crisis happening in that airline. They didn’t seem to have a cohesive culture and it seemed as if they continued down this path they would no longer have a business either. British Airways had this divide between BEA and BOAC.

Tim is the team leader and experienced in many fields. He is a senior instructional designer, a subject matter expert on learning management systems, and he also possesses vast experiences in adult learning theory. Coupled with the fact that he has held various managerial positions in the past and can effectively comprehends and applies leadership competence, we could never have had a better team leader

Airborne Express has many options available for sustainable growth and success in the coming years. After the recent 29% increase in revenue over the past year, there are opportunities to take into consideration that will boost this growth for the fourth quarter. This company should join the “industry trend” of distance-based pricing. This will result in higher revenues, and will give Airborne Express a more substantial budget to merge with Roadway Package System in order to create a more technologically advanced tracking system. This

For many years up to 1990, the financial performance of the company which was negative, dramatically changed with the appointing of the new Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary. The new management vision was to restructure the company based on the Southwest Airlines prototype business model with a culture of low-cost / low fare. Thanks to the European Union deregulation air transport in …, the company opened new routes and bases, increase its market share and became the first airline in Europe to carry over 100 Million international customers in a calendar year (Ryanair,2016) due to its low cost competitive advantage.

1. What problems do you observe in the organization before Ghosh arrived to the company?