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A Runway to Sustainability : How technology and the natural environment is affecting SAA

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  Organisations operate in a global challenging and fast changing world. The challenges present opportunities that required quick response from companies to remain competitive, profitable, and sustainable in a long run. For the organisation to survive need to understand and respond to certain factors like technology and environment which are one of FTI`s force factor theory that affect the businesses. SAA exist in environment which influences what they do, regulatory and natural environment.    The airline industry is one of eccentric industry that is impacted by several factors externally. According to Whittington et al., (2020) external environment is made of uncontrollable factors that have impact on the organisation’s decision making and its performance. Regulatory environment –are govern by legislation to promote economic environment and direct responsible help organisation behaviour in business environment. SAA is affected by environmental regulation on the c...
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Moral Leadership Matters More Now Than Ever

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  Organisations cannot function without formal moral authority. Organisations really work when formal authority is supported by moral leadership. In the presence of moral authority trust is build which inspires and creates meaningful and lasting stakeholder relationships into the future. Now, one may wonder as to whether the leadership at SAA never spotted the challenges the institution was faced with as they kept piling up. The continued government interference has long impacted on the performance of SAA. Wasserman (2020) references that the once lucrative route that SAA had between Mumbai and Johannesburg was relinquished to a competitor with strong government links, the  Indian airline Jet Airways. In its harrowing relationship with the finance ministry, the government was unrelenting to stick its oar in. When the then finance minister refused to comply with the many undesirable government interference and demanded that SAA’s board be replaced, he was subsequently even...
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