Global Business Environment Assignment - Global Business

Learning Outcomes -

1: Analyse the key factors which drive globalisation.

2: Determine the strategic complexities associated with operating in a global environment.

3: Evaluate how operating in a global market influences an organisation's structure, culture and functions.

4: Evaluate the influence of globalization on organisational decision making and strategy.

TASK 1 -

Scenario 1 - The Procter & Gamble Company has grown to become one of the biggest firms in the global consumer goods industry.

This business situation is partially as a result of the company's effectiveness in addressing the concerns identifiable in the global business environment the company operates in.

As a Trainee Business Manager, you have been asked to prepare a power point on the factors that promote global business and the challenges that the company may face.

• Critically analyse the impact that key factors have upon the global business environment in terms of benefits and challenges with particular reference to Proctor & Gamble.
• Critically evaluate the global business environment, including the opportunities and challenges faced by Proctor & Gamble.

Suggested Structure of PowerPoint Presentation Slides -

Title

Content slide

Main body

• Key factors that drive global commerce and trade.
• Impact that key factors have upon the global business environment (benefits/challenges).
• Strategic challenges faced when operating in a global environment (examples).
• Strategic challenges in context of risk and diversification strategies and the supply chain.
• The global business environment opportunities and challenges.

Conclusion

References

TASK 2 -

Scenario 2 - The Procter & Gamble Company's organizational culture supports leadership in the consumer goods industry and facilitates employee accountability. A firm's organizational culture or corporate culture refers to the customs, values and principles that affect the behaviour of individual employees, groups, and the organization as a whole unit.At Procter & Gamble, the corporate culture reflects business goals in achieving leadership in the global market.

• Critically evaluate global market influences in application to appropriate theories and models relating to organisational structure and culture within Proctor & Gamble.
• Critique strategies that can be adopted by organisations such as Proctor & Gamble operating in global business environment, and make valid and justified recommendations of how they should adapt their organisational structure and decision-making process.

Suggested structure of report -

Title Page

Contents Page

Introduction

Main Body

• Types, purposes and structures of organisations.
• Size and scope of organisations.
• Relationship between organisational functions and structure.
• The advantages and disadvantages of organisational functions and organisational structure.
• Critical analysis of business structures and the interrelationships of the different organisational functions.

Conclusion

References (Harvard Referencing style required).

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar