Question: s: Given your knowledge in environmental scanning, particularly the SWOT, kindly: (1) Develop a SWOT matrix using the information being provided; (2) From the SWOT,

s: Given your knowledge in environmental scanning, particularly the SWOT, kindly: (1) Develop a SWOT matrix using the information being provided; (2) From the SWOT, develop the risk treatment plan; (3) Finally, of the given risk matrix and behavior response, kindly choose which one is the most appropriate matrix that would capture the risk management behavior. The company XYZ with its 65 years of operation in the market had achieved significant share in the market. Being a producer and manufacturer of food products, the company plays a crucial position in the various value stages of processed meat and vegetable product in the Philippines. The corporation was first established in 1955 as a sweet potato backyard producer eventually after 10 years it invested in the processing, converting the raw sweet potato into various food products. The company partnered with international organizations abroad to learn new technologies and purchase the same from these foreign companies for a loan payable in 25 years. With a difficult start, the company managed to introduce their "giant fries" and taking a big share of the fried fries industry in a matter of 10 years. The impressive spike in their sales can best explained by their use of digital marketing which in the late 90's viewed as highly expensive and too risky. The company applied for a loan to roll-out their aggressive marketing campaign leading to a 123% increase in their profits. When the company started to establish branches across the country, it employed an outward-looking strategy. It started attracting workers from competitor firms and offer them managerial positions instead of giving opportunities to their own kind who had been with the company for decades. This strategy is a complete turn-around of the four-decades of in-breeding where only organic workers, those who started with the company as rank-and-file can assume crucial managerial positions. Outsiders can only take junior supervisory positions. The company invited mid-level to top-level managers from other corporations, paying them higher-than-the-usual rate. The older workers tend to resent the Board's decision of allowing external recruits with a very short exposure to the company. The resentment of the older workers is floated by the founding fathers of the organization which rewards loyalty. The older workers contend that the "warm bodies" pitfall which is a managerial technique of getting people from anywhere who may display relevant competencies and required education but gross in values, which may be detrimental to the established values of the organization. More than half of the mid-level to top-level managers are recruits from other companies which affected the strategies of the company. There was an attempt to change the company's vision which the older managers opposed for it will forked them away from the established vision of the founder. The younger managers contend that in order for the company to ride the tide of change it has to calibrate its vision, mission and values. Much like a shark, the company has to swim in the ocean, it cannot stall itself, or else it will die even if the company is experiencing a windfall of profits due to its dedicated and committed workforce who stayed and believed in the time-celebrated value of loyalty to the organization

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