Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Management Activities - Chapter 8
- Planning
- Steps
- 1. SWOT
Analysis
- Internal
- Weaknesses
- e.g Not enough money, out of date
machines
- Strengths
- e.g Excellent Staff, up to date
machines
- External
- Threats
- e.g Competition from new
countries
- Opportunities
- New countries join EU (Chance to sell
more)
- Business example
- Ryanair
- Excellent
CEO
- Famous
Brand
- Industrial relations
problems
- Poor customer service to
passengers
- Transatlantic
service
- Expansion of EU (New
countries)
- Competition from other budget airlines
(easyjet)
- Increasing fuel
prices
- 2. Set objectives
- Air Lingus did a SWOT he saw Costs where ^ set objectives of cutting costs.
- 3. Devise strategies
- Used to achieve Objectives
- Aer Lingus used a Redundancy strategy making 2000 employees redundant
- Low cost leadership
strategy
- Differentiation strategy
- Niche
strategy
- 4. implement plan
- Communicates plan to all employes
- Aer Lingus implemented its plans byasking employees to volunteer for redundancy
- Business
strategies
- Set goals(Objectives)
- 1. Manpower planning
- Goal of ensuring enough employees
- Redundancy strategy
- Recruitment strategy
- 1.Forecast future demand
- 2. Calculate existing supply
- 3. Take corrective action if needed
- 2. Cash flow forecasting
- Calculates cash - receive + spend
- Ensure it can pay its bills in the future
- 3. Mission
- Need to have direction or purpose
- Overall fundamental objective of business
- (A) What business does now
- (B) What it plans to do in the
future
- (C) The business's values and
beliefs
- 4. Strategic plan
- Long term plan
- Breaks up the mission statement
- Senior managers
- 5. Tactical
- Short term plan
- Middle managers
- Breaks up strategy plans (usually within a
year)
- Advantages
- Guides business to sucess
- Helps avoid future problems
- Eliminates the business's weaknesses
- Helps secure capital
- Motivates employees and managers
- Organising
- Functional
- Advantages
- Specialisation
- Acountablity
- Clarity
- Disadvantages
- Co-ordination
- Isolation
- Matrix
- Disadvantages
- Advantages
- Geographical
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Product
- Advantages
- Competition
- Lower costs
- Focus on cutomer
- Disadvantages
- Brand cannibalisation
- Duplication