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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459663103321

Autore

Bamber Greg J.

Titolo

Up in the air [[electronic resource] ] : how airlines can improve performance by engaging their employees / / Greg J. Bamber ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8014-5833-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BamberGreg <1949->

Disciplina

387.7068/3

Soggetti

Airlines - United States - Employees

Airlines - United States - Personnel management

Airlines - Employees - Labor unions - United States

Industrial relations - United States

Airlines - Employees

Airlines - Personnel management

Airlines - Employees - Labor unions

Industrial relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Low-Cost Competition in the Airline Industry -- 2. Developments in the U.S. Airline Industry -- 3. Developments in the Airline Industry in Other Countries -- 4. Industry Trends in Costs, Productivity, Quality, and Morale -- 5. Alternative Strategies for New Entrants: Southwest vs. Ryanair -- 6. The Legacy Responses: Alternative Approaches -- 7. Building a More Balanced Airline Industry -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When both an industry's workers and its customers report high and rising frustration with the way they are being treated, something is fundamentally wrong. In response to these conditions, many of the world's airlines have made ever-deeper cuts in services and their workforces. Is it too much to expect airlines, or any other enterprise, to provide a fair return to investors, high-quality reliable service to their customers, and good jobs for their employees?Measured against these



three expectations, the airline industry is failing. In the first five years of the twenty-first century alone, U.S. airlines lost a total of