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Assignment # 1

• SWOT Analysis

• 1. Strengths 2. Weaknesses•

3. Opportunities 4. Threats

• Assignment # 1 • SWOT analysis

• Of An Organization

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Managing in a Global Environment

• Understanding• The Global• Environment

• And

• WTO• The World Trade Organization

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Managing in a Global Environment

The World Trade Organization (WTO)• Evolved from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

(GATT) in 1995.

• Functions as the only global organization dealing with the rules of trade among nations.

• Has 145 member nations.

• Monitors and promotes world trade through:

Administering trade agreements Acting as a forum for trade negotiations Settling trade disputes Reviewing national trade policies Assisting developing countries in trade policy issues, through

technical assistance and training programs Cooperating with other international organizations

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Regional Trading Alliances

Global competition is influenced by regional trading and cooperation agreements.

EU SARC

NAFTA ASEAN

Managing in a Global Environment

European Union Countries

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Managing in a Global Environment

Regional Trading AlliancesEU European Union (Created in 1992)

Create a single market among the 27 members countries • Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands,

Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungry, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Purposes:

A unified economic and trade entity A single market without barriers to travel, employment,

investment and trade Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Euro common currency Asertion of economic power Created one of the world’s richest market

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Managing in a Global Environment

Regional Trading Alliances

NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement

• United States, Canada, and Mexican trade zone

• Purposes: Promote liberalized trade, not free trade Increase efficiency and customer satisfaction

ASEAN Members

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Managing in a Global Environment

Regional Trading Alliances

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Trading alliance of 10 Southeast Asian nations

• Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia

• Purposes: Created in one of the fastest growing economic region in

the world Could compete NAFTA and EU

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SARC Members

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Managing in a Global Environment

Regional Trading Alliances

SARC South Asia Regional Cooperation Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives SAARC provides a platform for the peoples of South Asia to work

together in a spirit of friendship, trust and understanding. It aims to accelerate the process of economic and social

development in Member States.– Agriculture and Rural Development; – Health and Population Activities; – Women, Youth and Children; – Environment and Forestry; – Science and Technology and Meteorology; – Human Resources Development; and – Transport.

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Managing in a Global Environment

• The “Greening” of the Management

• Definition

• Recognition of the close link between an organization’s decisions and activities and its impact on the natural environment

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• POLCA

• Functions

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POLCA Functions

• P

• For

• Planning

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POLCA Functions

• If you ….

• Fail to Plan,

• You are …

• Planning to Fail !

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POLCA Functions

• All the Flowers

• of the Future

• Are the Seeds of

• Today

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POLCA Functions

• Question?

• Do you want

• To go Anywhere

• Or Somewhere?

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POLCA Functions

• Get A Plan

• I played with life like a game

• To find life would be but the same

• I wondered why at the end of each day

• Nothing worthwhile had come my way

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POLCA Functions

• Get A Plan

• Then I decided to get myself a Plan

• And told myself “I can”

• Sure enough it happened on that day

• Everything started to come my way

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POLCA Functions

• Get A Plan

• Now you can do the same as me

• For that matter so can any body

• Simply get yourself a Plan

• And tell yourself “I know I can”.

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POLCA Functions

• Planning Is In

• Advance Decision

• Making

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POLCA Functions

Decision Making:

The Essence of

Manager's

Job

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POLCA Functions

• Alice in

• Wonderland

• Alice

• and the clever Cat

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POLCA Functions

• A Person ….

• Going Nowhere,

• With Usually ….

• Get There !

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POLCA Functions

•If You don’t

•Stand for something

•You will

•Fall for anything!

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POLCA Functions

• Decision Making

• Decision taking

• THE JOB OF

• THE MANAGER

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POLCA Functions

The Manager’s Performance

Results after ActionsAction after Planning

Planning after DecisionsDecisions after Analysis

Analysis after Needs/GoalsGoals setting after Analysis

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POLCA Functions

• Conditions Under Which

• Decisions Are Made

UncertainlyRiskCertainty

Objective Probabilities Subjective Probabilities