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Southwest airlines

I remember the first time I learned about union at college . My professor said his father did not join union and he suffered mental abused until he finally decided to resign because he could not handle that kind of abuse from union and its members

Then at university , I also learned about union , its management , and how it conducts labor bargaining with corporate management . We even simulated the role of management and union in a bargaining table . Our professor is 100 union

Realities never picture the goodness of union

. As Boser says , union does not create jobs it does not protect your jobs . It destroys them

According to the working group that did their study on labor relations of Southwest Airline human resources , there is an indication that there is a growing evident of a relationship between labor relations and human resources . This relationship did exist prior to September 11 , 2001 incident so is the relationship between the union and management in terms of labor contract

The working group finds in their study , such as in the case of Southwest Airline , which is in the process of merger negotiation with another carrier to pursue international route , labor negotiation between union and management today is getting longer . The period of negotiation is the longest when there is a speculation of the boom and slum periods

The group finds that the management practice of Southwest Airline has been excellent . The management is focusing its attention on building relationship between front-line employees with suppliers and labor unions since employees have been unionized . Its human resources system provides a fast turnouts at the gate ' its operation agents can make direct contact with functional group in each gate , and among pilots and flight attendants . They have shared goals , respect each other knowledge and approve to improve quality and efficiency

Recently , the Airline is negotiating a merger with other airline carrier in to pursue international service . Eric Gillis indicates that Southwest Airline 's customers have been happy with its service so far because of its point-to-point service

When airline industry was privatized in 1978 , most airlines experienced financial loss . Southwest Airlines did not privatized but reduced its service to point-to-point . Consequently , by 2001 , when many airlines went bankrupt , Southwest Airline 's profit jumped by 41 . Even though its fuel cost increased by 25 , its earning per share increased by 15 - an indication of healthy performance

Pascale , Milleman Gioja , in their Surfing the Edge of Chaos , saying If it ain 't broke , don 't fix it

Management today is clueless . They do not have enough understanding of the true purposes and goals of the organization . What they are focusing is the profit . Others consider that by creating crisis , they are creating innovation

Southwest Airline is adopting this innovation management idea by creating crisis - an innovation of operating with higher fuel cost and more competitive environment . At the same time , it wants to keep low cost and sell ticket price at low possible price , and...