Important: Most work is done, now it is (each question= A,B,C,D) needs to be finished From a leadership perspective, and provided comprehensive analysis, resolutions, plans, and strategies:Your plan must include changing corporate culture about the importance of sustainability, and demonstrate that the move towards sustainability is profitable.Each question (A,B,C,D attached) needs to be finished up by following:You should include headings in your paper that indicate each response, i.e. global business, creative solutions, etc. Your comprehensive examination paper must demonstrate your ability to do doctorate-level research. Please ensure that you have an appropriate number of scholarly and quality references. Keep in mind that any plans and initiatives must be implemented effectively to maintain (or hopefully augment) market-share and competitive advantage in the industry. As with most organizational growth, it is also imperative not reduce the quality of your products or customer service during this phase.From a leadership perspective, please provide comprehensive analysis, resolutions, plans, and strategies using four (4) following subject areas applied to the above business scenario given:A) Corporate Social responsibility; sustainability: Plan
a strategy for sustainability from the perspectives of social, economic, and
environmental aspects. Your
plan must include changing corporate culture about the importance of
sustainability, and demonstrate that the move towards sustainability is profitable.B) Strategic Planning & Implementation: Develop a construct towards the ability to incorporate these initiatives into the strategic plan of the organization. Perform a SWOT analysis and investigate how this can aid in attaining organizational goals. How can these initiatives be implemented successfully?C) Creative Solutions: Organize a team that will incorporate activities that lead to creative problem-solving techniques and foster an environment in the organization for creativity and innovation to flourish. Investigate the creative process and outline a plan to incorporate creativity and innovation into the corporate culture, and discuss how the plan can aid in important decision-making.D) Management of Technological Innovation: Strategize how to incorporate and manage new and emerging technologies that will enable the firm to be more competitive. Discuss concepts such as flexible manufacturing, and how to manage new technologies.Plan a strategy for sustainability from the perspectives of social, economic, and environmental aspects. Your plan must include changing corporate culture about the importance of sustainability, and demonstrate that the move towards sustainability is profitable.AT LEAST 15-20 REFERENCES NEEDS TO BE ADDED
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A) Corporate Social responsibility; sustainability:
Plan a strategy for sustainability from the perspectives of social, economic, and
environmental aspects.
Your plan must include changing corporate culture about the importance of
sustainability, and demonstrate that the move towards sustainability is profitable.
Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability
Corporate social duty (CSR) is support services rendered to the society through initiatives
that are not meant to boost the company financially or promote the company’s financial wellbeing. Corporate social responsibility can as well be defined as an engagement by an
organization to provide services that will help the surrounding community to benefit and grow as
a result of such an initiative. Corporate organizations participate in corporate social
responsibility for environmental purposes focuses n improving the environment and helping the
surrounding society to overcome social, economic challenges that are associated with
environmental pollution.
The idea of a company implementing a corporate social responsibility program is
supported by the availability of body corporative that may form partnerships with the company
to give this very special service to the citizens, the partnerships do not just represent the financial
gains that the companies will leap from this program but the overall impact that they will make
in the society (Thiel, 2015). Conventional perspectives about organizational aggressiveness,
business survival, and productivity are not given priority when a company undertakes a corporate
social responsibility program aimed at promoting productivity and the social well-being of the
society without causing any other challenges leading to a lack of productivity and slow
development of the community.
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Some companies incur expenses in implementing corporate social responsibility
programs aimed at building the society and enabling it to overcome environmental pollution
which might have been possibly caused by the firm and its affiliates. For instance, manufacturing
firm involved in the production of goods and services can easily face challenges as a result of
legal penalties being imposed on them due to lack of involvement in local corporate social
responsibilities and this prompts corporate to participate in community uplifting activities at
times not just because it is the wish of the management of the company but because of the legal
corporate responsibility that they are made to undertake.
Some of The Driving Factors That Push Businesses Towards CSR Include:
The contracting part of government
Business organizations are in agreement that indirectly binds the business organizations
to be responsible and care for the environment. Companies are obliged to work in the protection
of the environment and protect natural resources. For instance, mining companies whose
operations will by operation lead to degradation of the environment have an obligation to
rehabilitate the land that they mine their minerals from before they could close down their
business (Thiel, 2015). This corporate social responsibility requires that organizations leave the
environment clean and well maintained even after they are through with their business.
Previously, governments have depended on enactment and control to convey social and
ecological targets in the business area. Contracting government assets, combined with a doubt of
directions, has prompted the investigation of willful and non-administrative activities.
Requests for More Involvement of Companies
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There is a developing interest for corporate divulgence from partners, including clients,
providers, workers, groups, financial specialists, and dissident associations. These groups of
stakeholders of an organization play a significant role in the success of the organization and their
quest to solve some of the challenges faced by the surrounding community and the communities
that they belong to engage in corporate social responsibility programs in a bid to uplift the plight
of their constituents (Thiel, 2015). The involvement of these very close associates to a business
in corporate social responsibility undertakings push the business executives to consider
undertaking corporate social corporate activities to be able to able be at par with their associates.
Increase in The Number of Clients
There an argument that the moral direct of organizations implies that an organization
should be in touch with the needs of the surrounding that make the primary market of the
company’s product. In a current review by Environics International shows that corporate makes a
significant impact on environmental conservation and growth of the larger community, more
than one in five purchasers detailed having either compensated or rebuffed organizations given
their apparent social execution (Thiel, 2015). The growth of organizations is dependent on the
goodwill that the firm has from its shareholder, the clients and the government that keeps in
check the operations of the firm. In a bid to maintain these goodwill companies find it necessary
to be involved in the right protection and development of the environment.
Developing specialist financial weight
Financial professionals are changing the way they evaluate organizations’ execution and
are settling on choices in view of criteria that incorporate moral concerns. The Social Investment
Forum reports that in the US in 1999, there was more than $2 trillion worth of benefits put
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resources into portfolios that utilized screens connected to the earth and social obligation (Thiel,
2015). A different review by Environics International uncovered that more than a fourth of
share-owning Americans considered moral contemplations when purchasing and offering stocks.
(More on socially mindful speculation can be found in the ‘Managing an account and venture’
area of the site.)
Aggressive work markets
Stakeholders of businesses are progressively looking past CSR corporate that the
organization has been involved in and the advantages that the CSR activities have brought to the
surrounding communities and the environment (Thiel, 2015). With a specific end goal to procure
and hold talented representatives, organizations are being compelled to enhance working
conditions. Managers of organizations find it to include corporate social responsibility programs
that aim to protect and grow the environment as one of the core activities of the firm to achieve
the goals of the firm. Companies that have implemented their CSR activities well and have been
able to protect and improve the environment successfully have a better customer rating, and
more people will prefer trading with this company basing on the positive goodwill and the
reputation they have in solving problems in the society.
Provider Relations
As partners are turning out to be progressively keen on business undertakings, many
organizations are finding a way to guarantee that their accomplices behave in a socially
intelligent way. Some are presenting sets of principles for their providers, to ensure that other
organizations’ approaches or practices don’t discolor their notoriety (Tiel, 2015). Some
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businesses may not want to enter into a business undertaking with organizations with poor CSR
ratings and poor environmental care. These companies will insist to their compliances that they
need to b involved in environmental conservation programs that will benefit the organization and
the surrounding communities.
There are several benefits that are realized by both the firm and the public as a result of
the firm engaging in corporate social responsibility programs.
Organization benefits:
Companies in successful CSR activities are rewarded with goodwill that will attract
investors to the organization who will be involved in the growth and development of the
enterprise. Investors who are concerned with environmental conservation will find it attractive to
invest their funds in companies that are involved in CSR activities that conserve the
environment.
Cutting Down On Operational Expenses
Companies that for a long time are involved in environment conservation activities have
an advantage of receiving tax waivers and incentives from the government in a bid to promote
environmental conservation.
Improved brand picture
Companies with a good conservational policy that involves CSR activities that aim at
protecting the environment and safeguarding natural resources attract a good reputation from
their customers making them the leading companies in the industry (Thiel, 2015). Expanded
deals and client faithfulness, more prominent efficiency and quality, greater capacity to draw in
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and hold workers, decreased administrative oversight are among many other advantages that
accrue to a firm with good CSR activities.
Benefits of the group and the overall population:
Corporate inclusion in the conservation of the environment
The business is assumed to be an artificial member of the society with the capability of
making prudent decisions and contributing to the growth and protection of the environment.
When the company takes up conservational measures to conserve the environment, it takes up a
moral responsibility as a good member of the society to take part in communal development
Team building and cohesiveness
Conservational programs that are accepted by both the organization and the community
help the community to bond with the organization and build closer relationships with the
organization for having championed for a typical course. This helps the community and the
organizing in creating healthy relationships and peaceful coexistence.
Natural advantages:
Recycling of waste materials
Waste materials such as sawdust can be recycled and used as a material to make other
products. The recycling of this waste material helps to remove waste from the environment and
create job opportunities to the members of the society as well.
Putting material to better use;
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When the corporative use technology to put more wasted material into use such as huge
rocks and breaking them into smaller building blocks the environment benefits from reduced
degradation as a result of used materials
Other advantages to the environment include improved survival of essential organisms in
the soil waste and the air, decreased accidents and injury of people and organisms in the
environment and conservation of natural resources such as rivers and lakes.
B) Strategic Planning & Implementation: Develop a construct towards the ability to
incorporate these initiatives into the strategic plan of the organization. Perform a
SWOT analysis and investigate how this can aid in attaining organizational goals.
How can these initiatives be implemented successfully?
Strategic Planning & Implementation
Strategic planning is a process with inputs, the conversion processes, and the outputs.
Strategic planning is a scientific approach in which organizations find the most appropriate way
of allocating resources for use by the organization while focusing on the most desirable
outcomes of the managerial process. Strategic planning is an integral part of the plan and,
monitoring, controlling and coordinating activities I a strategic planning environment with the
aim of promoting growth and development in a firm.
Formulation of a strategic plan in a business encompasses various elements that are
essential in the formulation of business strategy. These factors include the company weaknesses
and strengths. The management of the company should accept the company’s facing weaknesses.
The company loses value from the weaknesses that it faces, and for this reason, the business
needs to find a reason as to how it will have to carry out an analysis of the weaknesses that it
faces to come up with an approach to hedge risks from this weak points. The company needs to
identify the strengths it has in its internal environment while making strategic plans; the strengths
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will help the firm to overcome challenges passed by the weaknesses faced by the company. In
instances where the company internal environment does not capitalize on the strengths that the
business has, it becomes very hard for the business to overcome external challenges that the
corporation faces.
The company also has o establish external opportunities and threats that it faces in its
operations. Opportunities in a business represent the factors that exist in the external
environment of the business that is likely to lead to the success of the firm if they are taken up
and utilized as expected by the management of the enterprise. Firms must strategically ensure
that they will use the opportunities presented to them in the external environment with the aim of
ensuring that the business successfully achieves its targets by taking up the opportunities
presented by the company’s industry environment (Gamble, 2013). Some of the possibilities in
the industry are not exclusive to the business, and if they are not taken up quickly by the
business, they can lead to serious challenges as they may offer an opportunity to competitors of
the firm in the industry. Threats f a company represents all factors that originate from the
external environment that can cause an adverse impact n the firm on their occurrence. These
factors lead to the decline of business and cause the sinking of the business profits the company
should come with a strategic measure to overcome or contain the external threats by use of the
company’s strategic plan.
The personality and goodwill of the implementers of the strategic plan also make a great
impact on the capability of the firm to achieve its long-term goals through an approach that aims
to grow the firm and to improve the output of the enterprise. The companies that have the
supervision with an extensive experience in the implementation of strategic plans and
management, been able to grow their capacity and enlarge operations over the expected period.
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The peroud, to enable the company to grow and achieve the expected. Managers who have the
commitment and an aggressive personality drive an organization to achieve the organizational
strategy. This is direct to the opposite of a manager who lacks the motivation and aggressiveness
to achieve these goals.
Societal expectations of the community that surrounds the community around the
organization also determine the implementation of the company strategist. For instance, a
community may expect the company to open a new service line to offer other new services to fill
the market gaps. The company must come up with strategies to fill these existing gaps and fulfill
the needs of the customers to retain them and ensure that the company continues making more
profits from trading with the customers. Societal expectations at times may create a barrier to
organizational strategies that will prevent the organization from advancing and growing. When
the society is not in support of a policy that the organization wants to implement the organization
should not go ahead to apply the approach without necessarily getting into a conflict with the
organization.
The SWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis is a scientific tool that helps to identify opportunities strengths,
weaknesses and threats that the company faces. The SWOT analysis works by analyzing both the
internal environment and external environment of an organization. The strengths and weaknesses
of a business belong to the internal environment of business while the opportunities and
weaknesses of a business belong to the Macro environment of the company (Gamble, 2013).
When companies are unable to make good managerial decisions as a result of lack of proper
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analysis of the company and both internal and external environmental factors the company is
likely to deviate from its budgets and plans.
Strengths
The strengths of an organization are internal advantages that the organization has and are
likely to contribute to the long-term growth and success of the firm. The strengths of the
organization that the organization will have to invest in should be characteristics and favorable
conditions within the organization.
Weaknesses
These are internal factors that can lead to a decline in the level of sales and profits
generated by the organization. Weaknesses are things that the organization should avoid because
they exist within the internal environment of the organization. Organizations that can control
their internal environment overcome their weaknesses and provide services and goods to their
customers (Gamble, 2013). Weaknesses that have been pointed out by their customers or clients
of the organization should be addressed immediately by the organization to avoid losing the
customers due to weaknesses that can be prevented. Some weaknesses can be pointed out by
having a focus on the reasons that make the company not being able to perform as the
competitors. For this reason, the company needs to a carry a peer preview to establish the reason
to why the company may not be able to achieve its long-term objectives as the enterprise.
Opportunities
The management of an organization should be focused on the possibilities that the
business will succeed and grow shortly to fulfill its long-term objectives in acquiring a larger
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market share and being able to utilize the available opportunities in fulfilling its goals. In any
market, there exists a market gap that organizations strive to fulfill, and for this reason, the
company needs to undertake a gap analysis to identify these challenges to be able to achieve its
long-term goals. The businesses that cannot utilize the available opportunities leave a gap that
will eventually lead to the collapse of the company.
Threats
These are the obstacles that an organization can face. Some of the threats come from the
strategies that the companies competitors take to expand their markets. The policies undertaken
by the competitors of an organization directly affect the opportunities of survival of the firm and
growth of the company in future (Gamble 2013). Changing technology and economic forces may
cause the organization not being able to implement these strategies and being able to adapt to
variations in the environment thus posing a significant threat to the organization. The
organization’s management should carry out an analysis of the forces that control the
environment that they operate to establish the outcomes of their trading and foresee the possible
risks in the environment. Measures to evade or contain the risks should be planned in advance to
enable the organization to be able to grow and maintain a healthy cash flow to support the
company’s operations.
C) Creative Solutions: Organize a team that will incorporate activities that lead to
creative problem-solving techniques and foster an environment in the organization for
creativity and innovation to flourish. Investigate the creative process and outline a
plan to incorporate creativity and innovation into the corporate culture, and discuss
how the plan can aid in important decision-making.
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS LEADERSHIP
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Creativity and innovation is an important aspect in the growth and development of
business. Innovative and creative companies discover new opportunities and products that fill the
gaps that exist in the market to gain a competitive advantage and grow their profits (Schilling,
2013). Companies that have made budget allocations aimed at building the business by research
and development make an imp …
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