Human Resource Management And Labor Relations

As she sat in her office in Winnipeg, Britney MacPherson thumbed through a textbook on

The airline industry is one of the largest global industries in the world. Airline companies in the airline industry have gone through challenging obstacles in the past decade. Many changes have occurred within the industry and increased regulations have driven up cost for the industry. The attacks on 9/11 left the industry in shock when planes were used in terrorist attacks in the United States. These attacks changed the mentality of the industry and shifted the focus towards safety. Safety was also a major concern in the industry with the breakout of SARS in 2003 and the H1N1 flu in 2009. The airlines had to ensure that public health and safety of the travelers were

This report will provide an overview of the shift in Human Resource Management from collective to individualised approaches to Employee Relations and will also explain the concept of the psychological contract and consider its importance for contemporary Employee Relations practice. “The terms ‘human resource management’ (HRM) AND ‘human resources’ (HR) have largely replaced the ‘personnel management ‘as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organisation’s” (Armstrong, 2009, p.4).

Unsafe acts, attitudes and errors are addressed in this project by assessing the activities of the people involved in operating aircraft, airports, and other facilities. The operations of such individuals are likely to affect the outcomes differently for travelers and airlines. Varied attitudes towards issues like security and errors occurring in some processes may result in significant challenges to the enhancement of safety. These practices will be assessed in the research with a focus on how improvements

September 11, 2001, was a horrific event that rocked the world and the way people viewed the safety of airline travel. The airline industry was hit the hardest after that day and it was uncertain if they could regain their customer’s

The 2012 crash of Convair N153JR is a text book example of how human error and the absence of crew resource management can result in the unnecessary loss of life. This accident involves a transport company named Fresh Air Inc. that transported cargo between the Caribbean islands using vintage 1953 Convair aircraft. The co-owner of the company, who was also the primary pilot, established and nurtured an environment of relaxed rules and desultory aviation operations. The primary pilot consistently flew the Convair aircraft outside its operational parameters by disabling key aircraft systems needed for safe operations. Additionally, the captain filled Fresh Air with incompetent personnel that could not maintain safe and airworthy operations. To further exacerbate an already dangerous situation, assigned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspectors were derelict in their duties and performed only superficial inspections on the company. Numerous and serious violations were overlooked by the inspectors and this removed the last remaining barrier for accident prevention. The captain’s insouciant approach to flying and company operations coupled with inept FAA oversight directly led to the crash of Convair N153JR.

The aviation community has to constantly keep innovating to help ease congestion in the air space, and keep passengers safe. The implementation of the airport modernization act has continued to aid the aviation industry, and as a result we have seen improvement in technology, and airport operations. Human error has continue to be an issue in the aviation industry, as noted by the author in How Traffic Control Keeps you Safe, but airlines still has some of the best safety records amongst the modes of transportation. The article gave great example of the current issues in the aviation industry, and how they are using technology to their advantage to help lesson these risk. There is always going to be accidents in the aviation industry, but taking right steps to make sure that numbers of mistakes are slim to none is something that will help aid to the growth of the

Traveling in air is a dangerous task that’s why aircraft engineers have been researching ways to improve security in airlines. Technological advances have resulted in automated cockpit procedures to make up for the human errors that usually occur (2000). Sixty eight percent of crashes are attributed to human error. This may include error during aircraft design, manufacturing, maintenance, or installation. Security breaches that result in terrorist activities can also be attributed to human error. This is the reason why technological innovations in safety are important in the airlines industry. Other technological factors include Customer Relation Management in the Internet.

However, after a careful self-evaluation, I found that my educational background was far from sufficient and professional to meet that challenge. It would not be a good decision to take up a career directly in the field without professional training and knowledge of the field. Nowadays, I understand that the industry is more complicated, and this complexity obviously requires more education. Therefore, with that in mind, I determined to study air transport and aviation management for my graduate program to gain deeper insights into this fascinating but challenging

Most jet transport accidents are not the result of equipment failure; a full two-thirds can be attributed to human error. At present, all U.S. air carriers, major airlines and regionals alike, are facing a reduced pool of qualified pilots and flight personnel to staff their crews. De-regulation has meant a higher level of demand for a finite number of qualified crew members, and, at the same time, the number of potential crew members leaving the nation's armed forces (the traditional mainstay of new hires for the airlines) has dropped sharply in recent years. As has been noted in a recent issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology: " the major airlines are reported to be drastically reducing the amount of flying time they require from applicants, "and while " there is no shortage of applicants (there is) a shortage of highly

To work in the Human Resource management field you must maintain and improve the company by planning, implementing, and evaluating employee relations and human resource policies, programs, and practices. It is a challenging and yet rewarding field to work in. However, just like every business field, people who work in the human resource department face many challenges when it comes to discrimination.

ValuJet 592 was a tragic accident that occurred in May 1996 when the plane crashed in a fiery inferno in the Florida Everglades, only minutes after taking off from Miami. The investigation report published by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ruled the cause of the fire as two oxygen generators igniting in the forward hold of the plane, but identified many emergent behaviors that changed the business environment and contributed to the final outcome. This discovery unearthed errors made among the system units-ValuJet, Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), and SabreTech- that lead to this system failure (Langewiesche, 1998). Following will be an analysis of the various system units and how their strategic business decisions contributed, and ultimately led, to this horrific accident.

Airline industry is a growing and a challenging industry across the globe and it is becoming more competitive on quality, pricing and most prominently safety in the contemporary world.

Human Resource Management In The Global Civil Aviation Industry: A Survey And Analysis Of Recruitment And Selection, Organization Development, And Education, Training And Development Practices

Industrial relations have become a complex problem of modern society. In order to have industrial progression and a better economy, it will be impossible to obtain without the cooperation of all workers coming together to foster a good and harmonious relationship. Therefore, it is the interest of all people to create and maintain a good relationship between employees and employers, which in the 1950s, the Dunlop’s model was formed and used as a guide to creating and fostering the good relationships in the industrial society for a better economy in the country.