Analysis of Qantas Airlines as an Employer

Company policies and procedures establish the rules of conduct within an organization, outlining the responsibilities of both employees and employers. Company policies and procedures are in place to protect the rights of workers as well as the business interests of employers. Depending on the needs of the organization, various policies and procedures establish rules regarding employee conduct, attendance, dress code, privacy and other areas related to the terms and conditions of employment.

1) Qantas Airways Limited is the national airline of Australia, it is also the largest airline in Australia. The Qantas Group’s principal business is providing domestic and international air transport services for passengers. Additionally, Qantas owns several subsidiary companies such as Jetstar and QantasLink that also operates flights to domestic and international locations, and Q Catering, a premium full service flight caterer.

International passenger traffic to and from Australia in December 2103 was carried by forty-eight international airlines that were in operation in that month, offering seats to over three million passengers. The number

• Qantas had lost 11% of its international air traffic and profits fell by $300 million.

WestJet Airline (WestJet) is one of the five most successful international airlines in the world with the high performance and the market share. The reason behind the success is the unique and powerful organizational culture. Employees, as the representative of an organization, is also part of the product which helps to constitute the image or the brand of the organization (Kusluvan, Kusluvan, Ilhan, & Buyruk, 2010, p172). As a matter of fact, how to manage employees is the key point to operational success and the management of employees various among organizations which formed the specific culture. This paper will discuss the organizational culture as well as the effective HR practice at WestJet in order to find out the connections

At the moment Australian passenger airline industry is dominated by thee large domestic carriers: Quantas, Jetstar and Virgin Blue.

A number of demographic factors will also affect Qantas’s business operation over the coming five years. With an aging Australian population, scarcity of talent, and a globalised work force, HR must be

Reviewing the Qantas Board charter against ASX (2014) recommendations 1.4, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1 the constitution is very clear particularly around the independence of the board and the composition of the role of Chairman and CEO as well as the committees under the board’s guidance. The board has structured itself to meet the requirements of the ASX (2014), in addition

The Qantas Airways is the largest airline in Australia. Its Human Resource Management operates in the company in four major areas, which are business segments, corporate, shared services, development, and learning. This report gives limelight to the Qantas airways HRM and its role in ensuring perfect operations of the company. It further discusses change management and job analysis and design. The company has undergone intensive change management such as cutting of prices and labor costs in order to ensure high productivity, moderation of wages as well as the introduction of flexible structures through a versatile and motivated workforce. Moreover, the HRM is also responsible of ensuring that right people are hired and

These main business objectives help the airline to focus on deliver quality services of the customers. Qantas main business is passengers transports and it is the world’s second oldest airlines. Qantas group operates approx 5600 flights in a weak in 59 cities of regional areas. Internationally, the group operates around 970 flights (Qantas-630 and Jetstar-340) in 44 counties 182 destinations. Moreover, through operations the group focused on five key elements that are right aircraft or right

Therefore, Qantas are able to utilise the extra funds and ensure their business to achieve success in their financial objectives. This present that Qantas holds an enormous advantage, one that can be use to overcome the fact Qantas are at a considerable unit labour cost

The Qantas airlines was up against the transport worker union(TWU), Australian and international pilot union( AIPA) , Australian licensed engineers union (ALAEA). These unions enforce strike as they represent engineers, pilots , ground staffs and baggage handlers. The Australian licensed engineer union and the Australian and international pilot association have been in negotiation with Qantas airlines since August 2010. While the transport worker unions had been in negotiation since may 2011. However, the dispute between employees and employers occurred as it became public word that jobs were being sent offshore. The union step in ensure this would not affect employees as well as improved their current employment condition. They demanded for

1. Qantas uses marketing research to gather and discover in making smart business marketing decisions. Qantas uses primary data and secondary data sources to get information to improve their service. Primary data include ongoing surveys from the commuters that use Qantas, mail based surveys, complaint monitoring, and discussion with customers through communication between customers and staff such as cabin crew and lounge staff. Secondary data includes government statistics, airline based magazines and reported interviews with competitor’s executives.

Human Resource Management is a vast field and there are infinite issues related to it, this paper will focus only on core issues faced by Human Resource Practitioners in Australia and thus analyse how such practitioners can contribute to achieve high performance workplace culture. It is indeed necessary to identify these challenges faced by Human Resource Practitioners in Australia in order to implement and develop effective HR practices & policies and thus enable the Human Resource Practitioners to achieve a high performance workplace culture which would be beneficial to the organization. The Human Resource Practitioners need to identify the external as well as internal influences that will impact the organization and formulate a strategy

Combined, Qantas along Emirates offer 98 weekly routes between Dubai and Australia. This deal improved Qantas’ profit before tax with an increase of 80/90 million A$ in 2012/2013 while projecting an increase of around 400 million A$ in the financial year 2013/2014 according to an analyst at Macquarie (Joyce, 2013). This alliance surpassed the existing partnership - Etihad Airways/Virgin Australia which covers only 30 European routes (Varley, 2013). Ultimately, the alliance helped divert capital resources from Europe to