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Strategic management is increasingly important in the public sector. Public sector organizations are incorporating strategic management principles in an effort to enhance organizational effectiveness and efficiency. In any organization, “strategic management is the center of all managerial activities” (Doss, Guo & Lee, 2012, p. 33). This underscores the importance of effective strategic management. Strategic management is particularly important within the context of law enforcement. Law enforcement organizations must have a specified vision and mission as well as goals and objectives. For a police department, the goals and objectives must be… Continue Reading...
skills, assigned the right job. HP is improving its growth capacity via strategic personnel strategies, merger and acquisition support, and providing emerging markets with reasonably-priced infrastructure. For remaining at the top of the market, the organization optimizes all operating strategy aspects -- increasing returns, investing wisely and being efficient.
Role of HRM in HP
Employees form the key to making HP successful in the market. Through the recruitment, development and retention of the cream of the candidate pool, HP enjoys an edge over competition. Hence, it works towards creating galvanizing and supportive workplaces in which all its members are able to thrive.… Continue Reading...
Strategic Planning Cycle
Strategic planning is delineated as an organization's practice of outlining its strategy or direction to be undertaken and making decisions on apportioning its resources to carry out the strategy. Strategic planning is largely beneficial to the organization in that it outlines the short-term benefits sought after and where the company seeks to get to. The strategic planning cycle exemplified in a sequence of formal planning procedures, makes certain that managers evaluate key strategic issues being faced by the organization. This is imperative to get through the common… Continue Reading...
little or no employee involvement is one of the factors responsible for the failure of most strategic plans (Thompson & Martin, 2010). As internal stakeholders, employees require to be engaged throughout the entire strategic implementation process -- from initiation to product design, and launch. The need to involve employees in strategic implementation is particularly informed by the fact that employees are directly involved in executing the strategic plan. When employees are involved, they are more likely to be more committed to the goals and objectives of the plan.
An important stakeholder in the strategic implementation process is the top management. Strategic plans are often initiatives of… Continue Reading...
The chosen tool, work gloves create change, encompasses eight distinctive processes that are necessary for strategic implementation. The first phase is generating urgency for individuals within the organization to perceive, comprehend and feel the need to change. Second phase is building a coalition with dominant individuals at all levels who work to lead the change endeavor. The third phase is creating a vision that outlines where the organization wants to go and what things will be like when the change is successful. This is imperative to ensure that individuals move in one way. The subsequent phases include communicating the vision, empowering action and garnering short-term… Continue Reading...
has over the years faced significant competitive pressure, with the future presenting even more aggressive rivalry. This case study provides a strategic analysis of the company. First, a SWOT analysis of the company is provided. Second, attention is paid to the organization's corporate-level and business-level strategies. Third, the analysis identifies the structure and control systems the organization uses to implement its strategy. Finally, recommendations for strategic improvement are provided.
SWOT Analysis
A major strength of Dell stems from its build-to-order business model, which enables the company to reduce supply chain costs by eliminating distributors and retail dealers. This customer-driven model has seen the company lauded as one of the most efficient… Continue Reading...
Strategic Importance of Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing Company
An increase in market competitions, decision to lower production costs and shortened time to market are the driving forces that make a large number of manufacturing companies adopting the outsourcing policy. Outsourcing is the management policy of allowing the third party external providers to take up the activities of non-core activities of an organization to make firms focusing on the core businesses. In the contemporary global business environment, firms are required to produce the innovative products, and developing a new strategy to… Continue Reading...
Responses
Week 1: One strategic control would obviously be the budget. The budget is one of the main strategic controls. The company determines its spending on R&D, new market entry, marketing for different products, and this spending is indicative of what the company's priorities are for the coming year. If there is no money for something, it is not a priority. If General Mills sees innovation as a pathway forward, it will spend on R&D. If it sees an acquisition as a key strategic pathway, it will put itself in a position to absorb… Continue Reading...
Foreign markets Strategic Entry Options
Most large companies with their distributorship or licensing agreements in other countries often consider having their own subsidiaries or having licensing agreements that are long term in nature in foreign nations to enable them carry out their businesses. These business arrangements have their costs as well as their benefits and these may vary from one country to the other depending on the economic standards, the political situation and the human recourses available in the given country.
In the case study given herein, the acquisition of the Tokyo… Continue Reading...
Based on internal and external assessment, this paper provides strategic recommendations for Spirit Airlines, Inc. Flying to more than 50 destinations in the Americas and with more than 100 aircrafts in its fleet, Spirit Airlines is one of the largest ultra-low cost airlines in the U.S. The paper is organized as follows. First, the two major issues or challenges facing the company are identified. Next, strategic options for addressing the issues are considered, clearly highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each option. Based on the evaluation, recommendations for the two most viable options are presented. Finally, a brief plan… Continue Reading...
maintenance services to a variety of clients in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This case study provides a strategic analysis of the company, with specific attention to the operational history of the company, its internal and external environments, as well as successful strategies. The case study also identifies the challenges facing the company and provides recommendations for overcoming the challenges. The case study was compiled based on secondary data.
2. Introduction
Al Sadeem was established in 2014 with the aim of providing landscaping, gardening and maintenance services to small, medium-sized and large organizations in the UAE. Though the company has experienced fairly impressive growth in the two years… Continue Reading...
Strategic Management Analysis of Maersk Shipping Company
Maersk Shipping Company is a largest global shipping company operating more than 600 ships, recording more than 23,000 bookings daily and 2.2million containers. Maersk can boast of 14.5% of market shares globally because their vessels arrive at ports every 15 minutes. Established in 1904, Maersk operates in more than 130 countries with over 110,000 employees. The company market capitalization was $27.6 billion at the end of 2015 fiscal year. Maersk facilitates the transportation of 14% of global seaborne containers coupled with Damco and… Continue Reading...
The Ten Strategic Points
Part A
Topic - The research area of interest is identification and development of high potential employee
Problem statement
Human resource is the most vital resource in any organization, yet it is normally the poorly managed. Even though there is significant research on the topic of employee development, there is a gap on how to consciously identify and develop high potential employees (Delery & Roumpi, 2017). The identification and development of human resource is a strategic procedure for growth and continuity of an organization.
Purpose statement
The purpose… Continue Reading...
at their most productive, and make the greatest contribution possible to the strategic mission of the organization (SHRM.org, 2016).
Key Functional Areas
There are several key functional areas in which human resource managers work. There are five key functional areas that have been identified.: Staffing, development, total rewards, employee relations, and safety. The following section will take a look at each of these.
Staffing refers to determining the organizations personnel needs and then recruiting the right candidates. This process begins with understanding the needs of the organization, and then writing job descriptions that accurately reflect the candidate who will meet those needs.… Continue Reading...
stocks are largely devoid of hydrogenated fats, artificial preservatives, sweeteners, and flavors.
2. Current Strategic Position
2.1 Mission, Vision, and Values
The company’s culture is founded on eight core values. These include:
a. Sale of high quality natural and organic products
b. Satisfaction, delightment, and nourishment of customers
c. Support for team member excellence and happiness
d. Creation of wealth through profits and growth
e. Service and support for the local and global communities
f. Practice and advancement of environmental stewardship
g. Creation of ongoing win-win partnerships with suppliers
h. Promotion of the health of stakeholders through healthy eating education
2.2 Performance
Over the… Continue Reading...
Kristal & Pagell (2014) article show the importance of operational marketing and strategic brand positioning, especially as described in chapter 8 of the text. For example, the text lists the seven steps in the positioning process, starting with the identification of the relevant sets of competitive products that serve the target market. Ahmed, Kristal & Pagell (2014) indicate the same, using case studies of firms like L'Oreal using diversified approaches in identifying core products, target market, and competitor analyses to gain strategic competitive advantage and market leadership.
Similarly, Ahmed, Kristal & Pagell (2014) discuss the attributes of what the text calls the… Continue Reading...
Strategic management and marketing theory demonstrates that marketing activities are significantly affected by events in the external environment (Mullins & Walker, 2013). For instance, the PESTEL framework shows that business and marketing decisions must be made in consideration of political, economic, social, technological, environment, and legal factors. One event that is increasingly affecting marketing activities is the Syrian refugee crisis, which has resulted in the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe (Kleintop & Schwab, 2015). This text considers the implications of the Syrian refugee crisis on the… Continue Reading...
Strategic, Tactical, and Administrative Crime Analysis
The type of analysis that is being performed when reviewing the incident summaries is tactical, as the crimes are all committed within a few weeks of one another in the same region and the aim of the review is to provide “information to assist operational personnel in the identification of crime trends and in the arrest of criminal offenders” (Beaverton Police, 2018).
As Bruce and Santos (2011) point out, a crime series is “a group of similar crimes thought to be committed by the same individual… Continue Reading...
practices and host-country HRM practices. With reference to literature and real life examples, this paper discusses the impact of country of origin on strategic HRM practices in MNCs. The paper specifically demonstrates how national characteristics affect the transfer of HRM practice, how the transfer occurs, and which HRM practices are more likely to be transferred than others.
The Country-of-Origin Effect
While MNCs may be considered 'nationless' organisations, most of them tend to be "strongly rooted in their country of origin" (Noorderhaven and Harzing, 2003: 2). This is referred to as the country-of-origin effect. Defining the country-of-origin effect may be quite problematic, but the concept generally means that firm behaviour largely reflects the characteristics… Continue Reading...
World War II Spy Assessment for the Office of Strategic Services
As a Selection Specialist to the Office of Strategic Services, my responsibility is to work with a team of three or four other individuals to create a selection system that will be utilized in identifying operatives to conduct a hazardous intelligence-gathering mission. The mission will be carried out behind enemy lines in order to ensure the safety of the operatives. The main goal of this task is to develop a selection system for spies who will work in various countries i.e. Italy, Japan or Germany. This paper examines… Continue Reading...
