Human Resources in the Airlines Industry

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the airlines industry in the United States, Europe, and Australia since 2001 in relation to human resources. The paper identifies human resources challenges and makes recommendations for future productivity based on an extensive review of the literature. The paper explains that many changes have taken place in the airlines industry since September 11, 2001 and a great amount of restructuring has been necessary in order for the airlines to stay in business. The paper then looks at the various airlines, their issues and trends.

Table of Contents:
Objective
Introduction
I. Issues, Trends, & Challenges
US Airlines
Southwest Airlines
Air Tran Airlines
American Airlines
European Airlines
British Air/Go!
Easy Jet
Aer Lingus
Lufthansa/Germanwings
Australian Airlines
Virgin Blue Airways
Qantas/JetStar
Air Asia
II. Airline Industry Employee Survey
III. Health Risks
IV. Recommendations for Airline Industry HR
V. The 'Keys' to Healthy Airlines Human Resources
Summary and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Certainly this will cause restructuring in terms of Human Resources in job function and description relating to the role of those responsible for assuring such disinfection of airline carriers. This has however, been addressed by certain airlines under review in this study in that flexibility in job role has been adapted by several airlines. This need for job role flexibility is further noted in the work of Guillet, et al (1999) in the work entitled: "Origin and Prevention of Airport Malaria in France" published in the Tropical Medical International Health Journal (1999)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Applebaum, Steven H. and Fewster, Brenda M. (2007) Human Resource Management Strategy in the Global Airline Industry - A Focus on Organizational Development. Business Briefing - Aviation Strategies: Challenges & Opportunities of Liberalization.
• Gittell, Jody Hoffer; and Kochan, Thomas, et al (2006) Lean Production in the Air?" Low Cost Competition in the Global Airline Industry and Implications for Employment Relations. Industry Advisory Board Meeting 26, Oct. 2006.
• Gittell, Jody Hoffer; Kochan, Thomas; McKersie, Robert; and Nordenflycht, Andrew von (2005) MIT Global Airline Industry Program - Labor/Human Resource Management Update. Industry Advisory Board Meeting. 4 Nov 2005. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.
• Gratz, NG, Steffen, R; and Cocksedge, W. (2002) Why Aircraft Disinfection? Bull World Health Organ. 2002;80(3):257. University Travel Clinic, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• Guillet P, Germain MC, Giacomini T, Chandre F, Akogbeto M, Faye O, Kone A, Manga L, Mouchet J. (1999) Origin and prevention of airport malaria in France. Trop Med Int Health. 1999 Dec;4(12):880. ORSTOM-LIN, Montpellier, France. Online available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=9754664&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus

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