CASE $$ READ $$CATALYTIC SOLUTIONS, INC$-$ PAGES $462-469$ OF MERCHANT & VAN DER STEDE

Requirements

$($a$)$ Has CSI been following a cost leadership or product differentiation strategy $($following Porter$$s strategy typology$)?$ Justify your answer. $.(7$ marks$)$

$($b$)$ Use Porter$$s five forces model to analyse the competitive position of CSI. $(7$ marks$)$

$($c$)$ Appraise the $2001$ compensation $/$ reward system used by the company. Your answer should make use of the ideas and theories of Vroom and Herzberg, but you are not limited to these approaches.

$(14$ marks$)$

$2$ marks are allocated for appropriate presentation of the written analysis, including structure of sentences and paragraphs, vocabulary, spelling, presentation, the use of $($Harvard$)$ referencing and tone.

TOTAL $30$ MARKS $($Weighted to $15\%$ of the course mark$)$

Some suggested readings $($in addition to those available elsewhere in the course$)$ are provided below. It is also recommended that you provide at least one additional reference from your independent research.

Suggested references:

Baxter, G $2019,$A strategic analysis of Cargolux airlines international position in the global air cargo supply chain using Porter$$s five forces model$,$ Infrastructures $($Basel$),$ vol. $4,$ no$.1,$ pp$.6-.$

He$,$ W$,$ Li$,$ SL$,$ Feng, J$,$ Zhang, G & Sturman, MC $2021,$When does pay for performance motivate employee helping behavior? The contextual influence of performance subjectivity$,$ Academy of Management Journal, vol. $64,$ no$.1,$ pp$\mathrm{.}293326.$

Bassett$-$Jones, N & Lloyd, GC n$.$d$.,$Does Herzberg$$s motivation theory have staying power?$,$ The Journal of Management Development, vol. $24,$ no$.10,$ pp$.929943.$