Selection Criteria: Select any public (listed on the Stock Market) small or midsize company (market value: between 2 – 10 billion dollar OR has between: 1000 to 8,000 employees). You may find this info on Yahoo Finance website: https://finance.yahoo.com/
Analyze the company information using the themes and perspectives you have been learning in this course. In your answer you must adhere to the outline provided below (including section numbers, etc)-
Paper1 Outline- (length is 800 words excluding section 15)
***************************** 1-Name of Company_______American Airlines____________
2- Your Name_________________________
3- Why did you select this company? Because its a good company to use for this assignment
4a- Company Size (revenue, number of employees, etc, )
4b- Company products and services ( Just list main products—less than 5)
5- Company Management Style (see chapter 1) 6- Company External Environment (see chapter 2) b
7- Company Culture (see chapter 2)
8- Company Ethical policy and its social responsibility (see chapter 3) 9- Company Planning Issues (chapter 4)
10- Important decisions made recently by management (chapter 4)
11- Company innovation activities and strategies (chapter 6)
12- Company Structure (chapter 8) 13- Recent News and Major Issues related to the company
14- Final Note: Comment on the quality of your paper
15. List of references you used to complete this paper (author, date, title)
VERY IMPORTANT:
– Do NOT delete the numbered list/section titles in your outline. Type your information under each subtitle. If you don’t have any information to include in a section, simply leave it as it is.
– Also, note that the outline IS the paper. This outline you are submitting is your Paper. As mentioned above, keep the format as is and enter your information under each subtitle.
Requirements: .doc file
Answer preview
Doug Parker, the company CEO, and other top leaders utilize the democratic management style. The management emphasizes increasing the interaction and collaboration with the subordinates to achieve great value. Improving strong personal relationships increases an employee’s discretionary influence. However, leaders in the company maintain responsibility and authority on key tasks and outcomes (Moreno, 2016, November 18). Based on many employees, leaders explore the capacity to create a cooperation culture as the most important tool for success.
6- Company External Environment
Porter’s five forces model can explain the external environment of the company. The suppliers have low bargaining power, although the aircraft providers and oil companies have a strong influence on the costs. Customers have high bargaining power on the quality of services and costs based on the low switching costs to other providers. Low prices are considered as a source of competitive advantage. Since the company operates in the local and international environments, the threat of substitutes is moderate. The unique value created by aircraft
