Reference no: EM133152781

Case: Southwest Airlines in 2016

Outlines students must provide in their papers.

1. Please write introduction and brief history for each company you write.

2. Assessing how companies balance duties to engage in socially responsible  and sustainable business practices with economic responsibilities to shareholders

3. Identifying and critiquing the policies, practices, principles, and  approaches management is using to implement and execute the  company's strategy

4. Determining if and why a company's system of incentives and rewards  promotes adept  strategy execution and operating excellence n Identifying the key features of a company's corporate culture and assessing if and why a company's culture aids in the drive for proficient strategy execution  and operating excellence

5. Students must check insight into the special demands of competing in  industry environments  where technological developments are an everyday event, product life cycles are short, and  competitive maneuvering among  rivals comes fast and furious.

6. Competitive capabilities play as large a role in the strategy-making,  strategy-executing scheme of things as industry and competitive conditions do.

7. Concerning non-U.S. companies, globally competitive industries,  and/or cross-cultural situations; these cases, in conjunction with the globalized content of the text chapters,  provide abundant material for linking the study of strategic management tightly to the  ongoing  globalization of the world economy.

8. Crafting business strategy, reasoning carefully about strategic options,  using what-if analysis to evaluate action alternatives, and making sound  strategic decisions.