Managing Change British Airways From Turbulent Times To Flying The Friendly Skies

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 90, Anglia Ruskin University, course: MBA, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this “informal report” is to address the following tasks: To identify and analyse the challenges experienced by British Airways in their negotiations with Unite. In addition, to make recommendations as to how organisational change may be applied to enable sustainable development within an organisation. It seems reasonable to assume that BA should be used as an illustrative case example, and as such it will be used in an applied context of change within this report. We will attempt to show recommended models for change management, as implied in the second part of the tasks of this assignment, and apply them to the situation faced by BA in the years of dispute to the present circumstances. This application of models to BA, will then allow us to contextualise the organisational change, and to evaluate key elements in our analysis of the BA case, whilst synthesising data and information from a variety of sources, and theories related to HRM and change. These are woven into the historical narrative of the BA case, that we created in the report, in an action oriented approach (Herr 2014) to the “telling” and “analysis” of the BA “story”.

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Project Report from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 80% (Distinction), , language: English, abstract: This report discusses British Airways in a strategic context whilst producing organisational and environmental audits on the case study. Furthermore it identifies the stakeholders and suggests a business strategy for the organisation. Finally timescales are proposed to achieve and monitor the strategy for the context of British Airways whilst identifying the resource requirements. This report is part of the BTEC Higher National Diploma series by the author and relates to Unit 7 - Business Strategy.