Purchase Solution

Southwest Airlines: Organizational Culture Profile

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Question 1
Which are the dimensions of the Southwest Airlines organizational culture, using the OCP model (Organizational Culture Profile)? Please make sure to identify two or more dimensions.

Question 2
Who is responsible for creating the Southwestern Airlines organizational culture?

Question 3
How is the culture maintained and fostered at Southwestern Airlines?

Question 4
Do you think there is a strong relationship between Southwestern Airlines successs and its culture?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The expert examines organizational culture profiles for Southwest Airlines.

Solution Preview

The Effects of Organizational Culture on the Organization's Workforce:

? Culture
? A Warrior Spirit
? Leading with a Servants heart
? Fun-loving Attitude
? Values
? Invention
? Eminence
? Community
? Positivity
? Courtesy
? Strength of Organizational Culture
? Performance indexes
? #1 Fortune Magazine "Best Companies of 500 to Work for in America"
? Profitable for over 30 years
? Culture Committee
? Employee Volunteer Lead
? Committed to "whatever it takes"

Southwest airlines defines it's culture as "a warrior spirit, leading with a servant's heart, and a fun-loving attitude" (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008, p. 49). These values are kept alive by the dedication, minds, and hard work, and dedication of its employees (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008). Organizational culture "focuses on the deeply embedded patterns of organizational behavior and the shared values, assumptions, beliefs, or ideologies that members have about their organization or its work" ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Academic Research and Writing

This is a quiz that tests students’ knowledge about the research, revision, and writing processes.

Charles Dickens Literature

Do you know about Charles Dickens and his literature? Find out with this quiz!

Wuthering Heights

This quiz will review some of the salient aspects of the novel's plot, setting, characters, and theme. It will constitute a brief check of factual information, with an occasional interpretive element. For those students reading Wuthering Heights for the first time, or for those readers returning to the book, the quiz will serve to reinforce understanding and to enable recall of the first few chapters and basic outline of the novel.

Grammar Check 1

Practice your understanding of the English language and how to properly apply it with this quiz. Quotations, contractions, subject/verb agreement, possession, and participles are among the skills tested.

Who wrote it?

Students will match the literary work with the correct author. I have selected works which are often taught as part of a high school or college curriculum

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Project Management: Southwest Airlines Organizational Culture

    420980 Project Management: Southwest Airlines Organizational Culture The organizational culture of a firm may present a strategic opportunity for the firm.

  • Human Resource Based Strategic Approach

    Southwest has created an organizational culture that is considered the standard in the airline industry. I hope does brief explanation helps you clarify your response to the question.

  • Southwest Airlines

    To sum, Southwest Airlines has in place the structure, systems, people and culture suitable for operating a low cost airlines. The organizational design, control systems, and human resources support the strategy of Southwest Airlines.

  • Organizational Behavior at Southwest Airlines

    140113 Organizational Behavior at Southwest Airlines Iam writing a research paper on the successful and/or unsuccessful application of organizational behavior concepts at Southwest Airlines.

  • Organizational Behavior: Airline industry analysis

    348229 Organizational Behavior: Airline industry analysis This report is related to the comparison and contrasting of organizational behavior function of Southwest Airline with Qantas and American Airlines.

  • Southwest Airlines Culture

    Southwest's Founder Explains Why There's No Secret Behind Its Great Culture. Retrieved Dec 10, 2013 from http://www.businessinsider.com/southwests-founder-discusses-its-culture-2013-1 Southwest Airlines.

  • Diversity Action Plan for Southwest Airlines

    Organizational Culture & Leadership: Southwest Airlines Culture fostered within organizations is influenced by the vision of its leaders for the organization, the management skills of its administration and the input of all its members according to

  • What has made Southwest Airlines so successful

    How has Southwest Airlines used these organizational behavior strategies to become successful: Decision Making Motivation Group Behavior Communication Power and Politics Organizational Structure Organizational Culture Human Resources Practices

  • Southwest Airlines: Employees and Organizational Culture

    499139 Southwest Airlines: Employees and Organizational Culture Assess how Southwest Airlines' culture is different from other airline competitors and the resulting impact on business performance.

View More Related Solutions