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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
1.
Evaluate Emirates objectives and comment on the range of methods used to achieve
Suggest how strategies can be formulated to brand/position Emirates in the context of its
operating environment, using Porters 5 Forces model. Analyse the impact of the PESTLE
macro environment on the business and its trading market place..............................................4
3.
Critically evaluate and explain the roles of various stakeholders within the organisation,
Explain the process and importance of a marketing audit. Analyse customer profitability
Review and comment on the organisations resources in terms of product or service USP,
the quality and flexibility of team members, culture within the organisation and quality of
operational systems and processes...........................................................................................11
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................15
Table of Figures
Figure 1 Porter's Five Forces Model of Emirates.......................................................................5
INTRODUCTION
By the development of worldwide economy, hospitality and tourism industry has
emerged as the highest growing sector in the globe. One of the largest industries in the world
is tourism. As per the WTO definition, tourism encompasses the individuals activities
traveling to and staying in outside places from their usual environment for less than one
consecutive year for business, leisure or several other purposes. Like a tourism sectors, the
industry of hospitality has much wider scope. Basically, it refers to the company giving a
service package, which involves accommodation, arrival, transportation, departure and food
service for the person away from home. Hospitality sector not only comprises hotels but also
refers to several other types of services or products. The present report is inculcating about
business undertakings of Emirates Airline. The content of paper is briefing about companys
structure, operational context and the way it is affected by external environment. The
strategies are also defined in the report that is adopted by Emirates airlines for gaining
leading position in the marketplace.
engineering, sales, cargo and logistics as well as facilities purchase. These departments are
further separated into other subdivision as per the specialization. Mission of Emirates airline
is to offer highest service quality standards to grow business in the industry of air transport
and to attain complete satisfaction of customers through refinement of service levels and
innovation. The vision of firm is to have strong and stable team of leadership with ground
breaking ideas and valuable decision making capabilities that contribute to the development
of best company.
The Emirates airline makes attempt to be the best in its entire venture for meeting
expectations of their customers and profitably add to the development of Dubai incorporated
(Sherrett, 2013). The company is also focusing towards making UAE a worldwide aviation
center for the 21st century. The Emirates aim is based on quality, rather than quantity and thus
its management put more efforts towards enhancing aviation sector. At present, the
organization has great influence into the tourism and travel industry at the global level, as
Emirates is well committed to provide high service in all business aspects. Due to this,
company has developed objectives that are perfectly in lined with its mission, such as to
provide best quality services to its customers and to position Emirates as worldwide airline
along with the carrier of choice to Middle East and Gulf nations. These corporate aim and
objectives is practiced in each level of its business operations from keeping its customer
services and fleets. Due to this, the organization has raised its market share (Baum, 2006).
It can be stated that the business strategies are main behind the success of Emirates over
the years. It is critically reviewed that organization has invested huge money in wide training
of its manpower so that they can offer quality services to clients. The company is able to
attract large pool of talented labor by adopting this strategy and has become the most
accepted airlines. This is also believed that Emirates got triumphant success because it
operates as independent airline, against other airlines, which operate under the star alliance.
The particular policy facilitates it to be flexible during operations and decision making. The
company manages social responsibility and corporate citizenship initiatives that enhance its
brand in the market and at the same time ensures about loyalty of customers. It also has
diversified products portfolio by projecting in another connected businesses including
logistics and hospitality sectors (Betz, 2010).
It is observed that company has able to keep its corporate citizenship and social
responsibility by following proper business ethics and positive culture. In the organization,
employees are well committed for the continuous improvements that combine to develop and
sustain the competitive edge of business operations in international market. The management
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also employs profit sharing scheme where overall profits are shared with staff members. This
is the best policy adopted by company, as it believed that individuals are more motivated
when they know that higher income will lead to increase in their profit sharing ratio. The
organization is concentrated on improving profit margins by making use of less resources and
producing less wastage or pollution. It is supposed of its eco-friendly fleets operations
throughout the globe that are replaced in short periods for controlling pollution (Buglear,
2010).
The organizational design of Emirates Airlines is mainly divided into two wide
categories, such as contextual and structural dimensions. The structural dimension puts
concentration on companys internal characteristics. This dimension is centralized one which
has hierarchical level that makes decisions regarding policy formation, regulations, job
descriptions, etc. It also includes specialization, i.e. the extent to which business tasks are
subdivided into separate jobs. Moreover, the hierarchy of authority that means the
management level numbers and professionalism, such as employees level plus their
deployment to several functions or departments. On the contrary, the contextual dimensions
make deal with problems that shape the firms structure. These issues are related to culture,
i.e. fundamental set of key values, beliefs, norms and understanding shared within the firm;
its strategies and goals; social system; size; technology and environment. Hence, the
management put great efforts to manage these areas while developing the design of
organization (Clarke and Chen, 2012).
This can be seen that employees contribute best for the attainment of Emirates
objectives, as they are provided with the benefits of broad chances for the professional
development and growth. Furthermore, they are attracted to work in the company, as it have
wide destination network together with chances to learn about the culture of world. Emirates
also recognized as best in the aviation innovation and due to the novel thoughts or ideas of
doing business, the organization has got success in reaching its core objectives. There are
many awards won by the business for its innovation in hub operations and in-flight
environment. In addition to this, planes of Emirates are artistically decorated and included all
technological facilities along with Wi-Fi connectivity that enhances the customers utility.
Hence, from this particular facility, the organization is able to provide quality service above
all in airlines industry and can attract desired target clients. Despite the in-flight innovations,
the Emirates have designed unique strategies and product offerings that contribute to the
accomplishment of its organizational goals (Cooper and Burke, 2011).
Therefore, it can be perfectly stated that due to the open culture in organization, both
employees and managers of Emirates are greatly involved in a continuous mutual efforts to
improve the products or services quality at each stages of business. This then comprises an
impact similar to that of chain reaction in which the companys united goal to develop its
service will eventually increase satisfaction level of customers and lessen the overall costs of
firm. Moreover, corporate culture also enhances the employees self-worth and sense of pride.
It positively affects their behavior and they work well for increasing the efficiency of
organization (Govers and Go, 2009).
improving per person income. Therefore, more people are able to afford the air
transport. Due to this, over the past few years, Emirates has been growing dramatically.
Secondly, the airline success is directly connected to the Dubais success. The plenty of
business projects are begun in the city that is attracting more tourists to visit UAE
(Taneja, 2003).
Legal In order to sustain its brand value in the market place, airline is required to
follow legal regulations related to customers and employees rights. Further, customers
are becoming more aware about the environmental impact of various activities. Hence,
failure to adopt with an incorporated environmental tactic can create negative impact on
the income and reputation of Emirates. In addition to this, flights cancellations and
baggage loss by clients would raise ethical issues, which can have an adverse effect on
Pre-audit activities It include identifying who will undertake the whole audit process
and at what time it will be executed. It also comprises establishing objectives, scope
considered as the most time consuming and expensive facets of marketing audit.
Analysis of information It includes evaluation of collected data in an effort to
give whole inclusive picture of marketing program of organization, such as how
effectively it fulfills the marketing concept requirement in providing for corporate
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profitability and customer needs, facing the rivalry, adapting itself to the macro
environment changes and how well it is in undertaking this (Dalci, Tanis and
Kosan, 2010).
Preparing recommendations A report of audit is prepared on the basis of
identified weaknesses and strengths. The report must give directions for the
further developments and manners of satisfying consumers needs (Lawton,
guidelines for managing appropriate change in the marketing process. The airline can
improve its effectiveness and productivity as well as re-evaluate knowledge process
informations. The management can understand through audit what activities have done in the
past and what not. Moreover, they can increase their cross-functional understanding. The
marketing management can also review the marketing communications efforts efficiencies
through audit together with assessment of sales forecast accuracy (Michail, 2011).
In addition to above, companies also make customer profitability analysis to understand
better and satisfy present or further demands of clients. The CPA tries to bring together
accounting and marketing professionals to manage, analyze and improve the profitability of
customers. The one best modern method used for conducting CPA is ABC (Activity based
costing) tool that assumes that activities leads to costs and products, customers plus services
are the mains reason for activities. ABC concentrates on determining reasons for what costs
occur, rather than on simply allocating what has been used up. The particular tool traces
activities costs in the process of production by utilizing activity and resource drivers on the
basis of cause and effect (Customer Profitability Analysis, 2013). Primarily there are five
steps in the costing process of ABC:
Identification of activities;
Determination of input from the consumption of resources by activities;
Identification of output through which the process cost directly vary;
Calculation of driver rate;
Tracing of activity costs to cost objects, such as processes, products and consumers
based on the activities usage.
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With the help of consumer based ABC model, a company can able to analyze how to
fulfill the needs of customers, which want minimal services and less cost products and also in
what way to offer services of high cost, high margin to service customers. Therefore,
profitable clients can be obtained as well as retained in several different ways (Epstein,
2000). Furthermore, the following problems should be considered at the time of analyzing
profitability of customers by airline:
How to identify further downstream customers costs;
How to build reliable customer cost and revenue information;
How to integrate in an analysis, a multi period horizon;
How to discover distinct drivers of customer costs (Mills, Meyers and Byun, 2010).
employees can get help from one another across the functions and outside the formal
structure. Subordinates are also shown about the importance of their contribution in the
overall operations of company. It reflects that in the organization, individuals are asked to
make decisions on their own, further are provided with a framework or vision in which they
can take appropriate actions to give response in non-standard events (Raaij, 2005).
If anyone looks at the culture and quality of operations at Emirates, they will found that
the companys structure, design and culture are driven by its values, mission and vision. The
informal and formal communication strategies also contribute to devise such structure.
Moreover, the culture at workplace is driven by diverse employees from multicultural
environment that put their efforts to follow common organizational culture. The particular
culture allows company to provide quality services or facilities and for that reason it is stand
in the global top 10 airlines. It is the excellence of business that it has been gradually
capturing the traffic from South Asia and North America and all the continents of globe. The
culture has also been to modify the company to the brand and thus from 2004, airline has
altered its slogan to Fly Emirates. In 2008, it has launched a slogan around their network of
100 destinations in 50 countries and more across six continents (Taylor and et.al., 2008).
It has been reviewed that culture of company has been to offer quality services to the
customers. Therefore, they provide different seats to different class passengers along with
additional facilities for their convenience. Hence, the culture allows it with novel ideas and
innovation, as employees is belonging from diverse places with their unique knowledges or
thoughts. Due to this reason, the airline is first who has launched for its all three classes, the
IFE system. Besides the operational system and service quality, the diversified culture of
Emirates allows it to invest in varied events like the company has sponsored Fifa World Cup.
Lastly, it can be stated that overall growth and development of airline is because of its
diversified culture that facilitates execution of different novel ideas for the productivity of
business operations (Gu, 2004).
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that Emirates Airline is the most important
airline in the Middle East that has effectively established on the marketplace in past 25 years.
Its sustainable model of business supports in attaining the overall competitive edge in the
worldwide international market. The companys competencies, strategic capabilities,
sustainable business model and strengths have reinforced the strategic management that
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ultimately leads to the accomplishment of its business objectives. Furthermore, the working
environment and culture followed in company motivated the workforce to perform efficiently
and effectively that again lead to the attainment of strategic objectives.
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