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Action learning programs

Action learning programs

For this assignment, pretend that you are a leadership development coach assigned to help some organizations fix their action learning programs. For each of the scenarios below, explain what you think went wrong and how it could be fixed based on what you have learned about action learning in the background readings. For each of the three scenarios, explain your diagnosis and use at least one citation from the required readings to support your diagnosis. Your paper should be two to three pages in length:
1. A group of 20 from different departments from within an organization is put together to form an action learning set. At their meetings, every person is allowed to present and receive feedback from other set members and their coach. At first they are allowed to present and receive feedback for a half hour each but group members become exhausted from 10 hour meetings. Then this time is cut to 5 minutes per person but group members feel they are unable to learn or get adequate feedback from their coach and other group members in this amount of time.
2. A CEO picks an important problem for an action learning group consisting of five senior managers. The group meets every month for a full day for nine months. After nine months, each group member feels that they have learned a lot from receiving feedback every month and has improved several areas of their leadership skills. The group presents to the CEO a detailed plan along with steps they have already taken to help solve the problem and the results they have seen. But the CEO is upset because they didn’t come up with the solution the wanted and orders the group out of his office.
3. A group of several managers is put together to form an action learning set. The group members are very motivated to start this program and excited about the possibilities for developing their skills. The facilitator for the action learning program is a top assistant to the CEO. During group meetings, team members are reluctant to discuss difficulties they are facing in their tasks. Whenever a team member gives a presentation, they tend to only discuss positive experiences and they never criticize the organization.

Contrasting Theoretical Frameworks to Understand Organizational Success

Contrasting Theoretical Frameworks to Understand Organizational Success

Module 8: Assignment: Contrasting Theoretical Frameworks to Understand Organizational Success

After studying the content and suggested resources of all MANA 762 modules about Management Theories, “Put on your research goggles: Contrasting theoretical frameworks to understand organizational success.” Select two general theories, one micro and one macro theory, compare them, and evaluate their relationship. Explain how companies use them to improve their performance. Support your arguments.
Instructions
Your answer should be a minimum of 450 words.
Include:
Cover letter
Introduction
Theme development
Arguments for and against
Conclusion
Letter number 12, Times New Roman
Six APA references
It should include an example that evidences the application of the study concept.
The submitted work must be of your authorship without using citations, the material discussed in the module, or from some other source.
Important Note: As a doctoral student, you must ensure that before publishing your work, you must support your arguments with references, remember to use the current APA standards, expression of ideas, and formatting of text, citations, and references. Do not accept internet reference sources such as .com, news, opinion, or blogs. Always remember that before submitting your work: (a) use any direct quotations sparingly, (b) for any paraphrases, be sure to give credit to the author, (c) do not use informal phrases or incomplete sentences, and (d) correct grammatical usage, and proofread your paper.

BACHI Barcelona is a company that sells

BACHI Barcelona is a company that sells

BACHI Barcelona (http://www.bachibarcelona.com) is a company that sells medium-high range handbags and accessories for men and women. This project has been created by two friends, Meritxell and Nuria, passionate about fashion and fully orientated to the satisfaction of their customers through their products, and it has been in the market for one year.

These two enterprising women have a common idea: to create comfortable accessories but without sacrificing innovative designs. Therefore, their products seek differentiation through originality, because their patterns are visible both inside and outside of the bags, thereby creating a different product.

BACHI Barcelona stands out for online sales through a website that tries to be intuitive and with a high navigability whilst, of course, gaining visibility for their bags and accessories. In addition, it has the following services:

  • Complete catalogue of their accessories for online sale.
  • Filtering by categories and price system, to customize searches.
  • Offers and temporary discounts on some products.
  • Form for potential customers to request information.
  • Delivery service of 24-48 hours. Cost: € 5 (other costs assumed by BACHI Barcelona). However, they offer several promotions with free deliveries.
  • National and international shipments (European Union), although they are still not very clear how to penetrate international markets.
  • “Stories by Bachi” blog, where they report announcements and related news.
  • Newsletter service (previous subscription with welcome gift).
  • Access to their social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

In relation to other information of interest:

  • Human capital is composed only of them: Meritxell and Nuria. They both have extensive knowledge of the fashion industry and new trends. Also, they have earned a degree in Law, so they have great knowledge in legal matters.
  • High involvement, enthusiasm, desire to grow and meet the needs of customers in the fashion and accessories sector.
  • They have external consultants in different areas such as Marketing, Community Manager, Web Positioning, Accounting, Photography, Web Programming or Modelling.
  • Clear awareness of the importance of the presence of BACHI Barcelona in social media to obtain a good position in the market.
  • Low bargaining power of the price of the deliveries until they start getting a higher number of orders.
  • Very close relationship with their suppliers. Currently they are working with 20 suppliers because of the many details that their accessories have. These are local Eco Friendly suppliers, thus contributing to the sustainability and development of local commerce, even though this may translate into less competitive prices than if they worked with suppliers from countries with different labor rights cultures.
  • All their designs are unique and handcrafted in Barcelona.
  • The stock policy is very clear: refuse to work on request. They prefer to have surplus for all their star and classic products. They will only work on request for cost or limited edition designs.
  • At a financial level, they work with a Business Expansion Account for SMEs with advantageous conditions in terms of fees and bank charges, but they do not have financing.
  • They often base their strategy on participating in fairs and events to bring their product and brand closer to the public, at strategic points such as Barcelona, Tarifa and different Italian cities, avant-garde in the latest fashion.
  • Currently BACHI Barcelona faces stiff competition. Their main competitors are:

Meritxell and Nuria have some priorities related to gaining presence in social networks and increasing their competitive advantages over their main competitors. They consider it very important to increase the number of subscribers on the web, get more followers to increase visibility, try new ways of online communication (guest posting, banners, collaboration with bloggers and other national and international friendly companies) and increase sales from the promotions they make.

Although they are very aware of these facts, they have never stopped to elaborate a strategic plan that helps them achieve their main goals for BACHI Barcelona. For this reason they’re contacting you to help them in this task.

RESOLVE

  1. Create the mission, vision and values of BACHI Barcelona
  1. With the information provided, we need to carry out an internal analysis based on the evaluation of both the website and any internal elements mentioned.
    • Describe and explore the competitive advantages and disadvantages of BACHI regarding its competitors.
    • Identify the tangible resources (physical and financial), the intangible resources and the capacities that we have.
    • Prepares a VRIO analysis of the resources of BACHI Barcelona
    • Conclude the exercise with a small matrix that reflects the resulting Strengths and Weaknesses.
  2. Perform an external analysis (macroenvironment and microenvironment) of the current situation.
    • PEST
      1. 4 elements of the economic structure.
      2. 2 elements of the technological structure.
  • 2 elements of the political structure.
  1. 2 elements of the social structure.
  • Analysis of the 5 Porter Forces
    1. Bargaining power with suppliers.
    2. Power of negotiation of the consumers.
  • Threat on income of substitute products.
  1. Threat of new competitors.
  2. Rivalry among competitors.
  • End the exercise with a small matrix that reflects the resulting Opportunities and Threats.
  1. In accordance with the Weaknesses, Strengths (internal analysis), Opportunities and Threats (external analysis), propose the following:
    • Defensive strategy.
    • Offensive strategy.
    • Survival strategy.
    • Reorientation Strategy.\
  2. Develop a BSC in the form of a matrix.
  3. Based on the contribution of Michael Porter, you must propose and justify the following (one of each):
    • Strategy in Cost Leadership.
    • Differentiation Strategy.

Focus Strategy.