Impacts on Staff of a Change in Business Practices of Lufthansa in Commercial Air Transport Industry

Demonstrate coherent understanding on how different management and leadership styles impact on team and organisational performance in the commercial air transport industry

1 Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding

·Demonstrate coherent understanding on how different management and leadership styles impact on team and organisational performance in the commercial air transport industry

2 Demonstrate the following skills and abilities

·Describe, analyse, and demonstrate the ability to develop and motivate people to work efficiently and to resolve conflict situations in the commercial air transport industry.

What am I required to do in this assignment?

You are required to write a 1,500 word report (+/- 10%) examining and explaining the impacts on staff of a change in business practice of Lufthansa. You are to examine and explain how staff are impacted by a decision taken by the airline, taking into account the specific staff roles in Lufthansa.

The decisions you may want to consider are the following: growth or decline of the activity, new products or markets, change of structure; change of services, responding to competition, responding to the Covid pandemic etc.

The impacts on the staff you may want to consider are: redundancy; motivation, staff turnover, performance, conflict, illness, absenteeism, skills, training needs, etc.

You will be expected to make your own research on the background at Lufthansa and use examples of a decision that it has taken in its recent past.

Annual Reports, press releases, news articles and the presentations of the members of management board and LH Policy Briefs could be used

What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF

In order to pass Assessment 1 you will need to:

Have a thorough understanding on how different management and leadership styles impact on team and organizational performance in the commercial air transport industry.

How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?

We will be filling this section in together in class on Click or tap to enter a date. make sure you have downloaded/printed out the Assignment Brief and bring it to the session with you.

How does assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?

This assessment will bring together some of the main and foundational themes of Managing People in Aviation.

Students will be expected to synthesise the themes explored during the entirety of the unit for this assessment.

Students will apply their understanding to a situation faced by a company of their choice and how this impacts the way people are managed.

How will my assignment be marked?

Your assignment will be marked according to the threshold expectations and the criteria on the following page.

You can use them to evaluate your own work and consider your grade before you submit.

Adequate understanding of the subject matter but with very limited evidence of its inter relationship with other fields of study

Adequate demonstration of ability to operate with varied contexts, but selection and application is basic, some irrelevance of information is presented

Adequate ability to work with ideas at a level of abstraction, but arguments are limited to single perspectives

Adequate interpretation and evaluation of concepts and frameworks without relation to practice and theory

Adequate ability to identify, select and use strategies and techniques to undertake analysis, but critical thought not evident

Adequate judgement used, reasoned and justified arguments not developed

Limited demonstration of original and creative thought

Conclusions limited but without reference to relevant frameworks and literature reviewed

Poor structure which hinders understanding but core thread exists

Writing is confused and some points unclear, unnecessary grammar and spelling errors, some points unclear but still able to follow narrative

No use of headings and ineffective paragraphs Basic vocabulary with a weak writing style

Referencing style inaccurate and inconsistent – major in text and reference list errors. Additional referencing required