Assignment Form and Analysis of Problem Situations, STEEPLE Factors, and Competition to Collaboratio

Filling Out The Assignment Form

When you have completed your TMA, you must fill in the assignment form (PT3 form), taking care to fill all sections correctly. A soft copy of your TMA with the PT3 form filled must be uploaded to the university Moodle within the indicated cut-off date, via the turn-it-in upload link.

1.The following text describe problem situations. Read the text and note down the problem signaling words and expressions.

Joyce Lodge opened her first café in 1989. In 2010, Joyce Lodge retired. Her daughter Patricia gave up her job as a management consultant to become the chief executive officer of the Lodge chain. At this point, the business remained reasonably successful but experienced growing competition in the sector. Indeed, the business faced an increasingly threatening external environment as the economy moved into recession. The shareholders of the business were becoming increasingly nervous and began to put pressure on Patricia to respond actively to these challenges. It is true that there are staff problems across the chain. High turnover, particularly among serving staff.

2.Below are mixed STEEPLE factors examples of Asda Co. case study. Organise each STEEPLE factors example according to the suitable category.

a.Legal fluctuation in global exchange rate.

b.Environmental impact of Brexit and prolonged uncertain geopolitics

c.Political commitment to addressing the environmental challenges.

d.Sociological stringent rules regard data privacy.

e.Ethical Digitalization in retail set to simplify the lives of customers

f.Economical increasing popularity of mobile payments.

g.Technological Asda Co. operations are conducted in accordance with integrity, transparency, accountability and honesty.  

3.Read the extract carefully and apply the problem-solution pattern of analysis to it. Use numbers only to refer to each answer.

Competition to Collaboratio

(1) Competition in the Scottish electronics industry for skilled technicians is famously intense and in the early 1990s recruitment problems were getting out of hand.

(2) “We were basically poaching from each other and pushing salaries up.

(3) It was becoming a vicious circle,” says Morag McKelvie, a personnel manager at NEC semiconductors.

(4) The idea then that managers from competing companies would start working together to solve the skills shortage would have seemed incredible, she says.

(5) Russell Pryde, manager of ….one of Scotland’s local enterprise councils, agrees.

(6) “I don’t think they would have sat in the same room together.”

(7) But in a striking turnaround, a number of competitors have embarked on an unprecedented degree of cooperation on training over the past two years.

(8) Yesterday, their innovative approach was recognized when they received a special training award from the Institute of Personnel and Development at the National Training Awards, organized by the Department for Education and Employment.