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- Title
FOUR VICE PRESIDENTS, FOUR DIRECTORS, AND A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE.
- Authors
Davidson, J.D.
- Abstract
The article focuses Air Canada Operations Research group, whose seventeen graduates are now in management positions. As of 1 September 1980, there are four Vice Presidents, one General Manager, one District Manager, two Directors, and nine Managers scattered throughout various functional areas. Air Canada is one of the world's largest airlines. It is eighth largest in fleet size, tenth in passenger miles, eleventh in passengers boarded and thirteenth in number of employees. In the late fifties the President at the time, Gordon McGregor, invited Peter Sandiford to join Air Canada and start an operations research group. During the twenty years since then, the Air Canada Operations Research group has been one of the most enduring and successful groups in Canada and, indeed, in the airline industry worldwide. It has survived and prospered in spite of the fact that many of its best people have left to assume managerial positions elsewhere in the airline. Air Canada's hiring policy, consciously or unconsciously, has been to recruit achievement-oriented managers who could do operations research (OR) rather than brilliant OR people.
- Subjects
AIR Canada (Company); RESEARCH teams; OPERATIONS research; EXECUTIVES; MCGREGOR, Gordon; SANDIFORD, Peter; MANAGEMENT science
- Publication
Interfaces, 1981, Vol 11, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
0092-2102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/inte.11.1.59