This term, we learned a lot Business and Management. It is the beginning of the specific, and from this lessons, I learned a lot new knowledge.
Firstly, we studied what is organisation. I knew the organisation structure. There are two kinds of structures in here, tall structure and flat structure. In the tall structure, people could do their job better, because they know what should they do, but it is not easy to manage them. In the flat structure, manager could manage staffs easy, but staffs are messy, maybe they can not finish the work very well. And there are decentralised structure and centralised structure, such as Google, Google use decentalised structure, on other hands, all most banks use centralised structure.
Then, we knew how to use the SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis Combination of organisation’s strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats, and people could know the internal environment and external environment. Then the company could make the plan. For example, Wal-Mart Stores. There are some strengths, it is well known, most people know many goods are sold in there, people could buy many things in here. And it is a global organisation, they have more opportunities. Staffs also loyalty to the organisation. In the weakness, they can not manage all of the stores very well, and they sell many things, they can not concentrate on one side. It is a global organisation, but at present, they just have lot of stores in some countries. Then we can see the opportunities, Wal-Mart could build more stores in China and India, they could get more marketing in those counties, and they have more experience in managing big stores. In the last element, threats, many oganisations want to compete with them, and sometimes Wal-Mart in trouble in other countries. Another analysis is PESTEL analysis. Political, Economic, Social, technological, Environmental and Legal. When we use it, we could know the external environment of the organisation very clear.
I think the most important element is globalisation. At 21st century, we get informations so easy and quick, and there are many international trades happen every day. We use the import productions in our daily life, people work for foreigner company, and local organisations make the productions, sell productions to other countries’ companies, and they sale it to local people, this is import. Doing international trade, organisations could get more benefit, and some organisations get more advanced technologies, use it in their organisation, improve themselves. We can not stop this, because many organisations get benefit by this way. There are some advantage, at first, foreigner investment is helpful, and it could deal with the ;abour force movement. And sometimes it could change the local marketing. However, there are some disadvantage, for example, international organisation get more benefit, so poor get poorer, rich get richer.
Finally, from this lessons, we could know many things about the international organisations and management. It is helpful for us, we learned it from a foreigner way, we could know it better.