Southwest HR Practices

    Southwest Airlines is a well-known company featured in our textbook. Take on the fictional role of intern at Southwest Airlines Human Resources. Project is to assist with a new HR strategy for the company. FOCUS: Examining current practices Your first task is to examine Southwest’s current HR practices, as reported in public sources. Review and rationale of the elements listed below to decide where Southwest Airlines’ HR practices fall. Support the analysis with evidence from sources on the web. Employees as expenses vs. employees as assets Compensation below market, above market, or competitive Spontaneous training and development or planned training and development Specific job descriptions or general job descriptions External or internal recruitment, or both Limited socialization of new employees or extensive socialization Collective bargaining or individual bargaining Please use the following as one of the resources: Noe, R, Hollenbeck, J., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. (2018). Human resource management (11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.