How would you argue that the success of a business enterprise is significantly influenced by its environment?
Business enterprises cannot work in isolation. Therefore, a good understanding of the environment not only helps the manager to deal with uncertain situations, but also helps the organizations to identify and benefit from opportunities that the environment offers. The following point highlights the importance of business environment for the success of a business enterprise:
1. It enables the firm to identify opportunities and get the first mover advantage: Environment provides numerous opportunities for business success. Early identification of opportunities helps an enterprise to be the first to exploit them instead of losing them to competitors.
2. It helps the firm to identify threats and early warning signals: Threats means external environmental changes that hinder the performance of the firm. And proper awareness of the business environment helps the manager to identify the threats on time and then they can prepare themselves to meet the threats.
3. It helps in tapping useful resources: Environment is a source of various resources for running a business and it provides inputs to the business like finance, machines, raw materials, power, and water, labour etc. Every enterprise depends on the environment as a source of inputs or resources and in return the enterprise supplies outputs such as goods and services. And for that enterprise designs policies that allow it to get resources that it needs so that it can convert those resources into outputs that the environment desires.
4. It helps in coping with rapid changes: Business environment is dynamic in nature and changes are taking place at a fast pace. And to cope effectively with the changes managers must understand and examine the environment and develop suitable courses of action.
5. It helps in assisting in planning and policy formulation: Environment is a source of both opportunities and threats for the business enterprise. And its understanding and analyzing helps them to decide future course of action or training guidelines for making policies to deal with the present situation.
6. It helps in improving performance: The future of the business is bound with what is happening in the environment. And a continuous monitor to the environment helps to adopt suitable business policies and practices which not only improve the performance of the business but also continue to succeed in the market for long terms.
How would you characterize the business environment? Explain with examples, the difference between general and specific environment.
The government of India announced Demonetization of ₹ 500 and ₹ 1,000 currency notes with effect from the midnight of November 8, 2016. As a result, the existing ₹ 500 and ₹ 1,000 currency notes ceased to be legal tender from that date. New currency notes of the denomination of ₹ 500 and ₹ 2,000 were issued by Reserve Bank of India after the announcement.
This step resulted in a substantial increase in the awareness about and use of Point of Sale machines, e-wallets, digital cash and other modes of cashless transactions. Also, increased transparency in monetary transactions and disclosure led to a rise in government revenue in the form of tax collection.
a. Enumerate the dimensions of the business environment highlighted above.
b. State the features of Demonetization.
Why it is important for business enterprises to understand their environment? Explain.
National Digital Library of India (NDL India) is a pilot project initiated by the HRD ministry. It works towards developing a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. It provides support to all academic levels including researchers, life-long learners and differently-abled learners free of cost. State the dimensions of business environment highlighted above.
Briefly discuss the impact of Government policy changes on business and industry.
What economic changes were initiated by the Government under the Industrial Policy, 1991? What impact have these changes made on business and industry?
What are the essential features of:
a. Liberalisation,
b. Privatization and
c. Globalisation?
How does understanding of business environment help in improving performance of a business?
Give an example to show that a business firm operates within numerous inter related factors constituting the business environment.(Hint: example highlighting the inter relatedness of dimensions of business environment).
State the impact of demonetization on interest rates, private wealth and real estate.
How does planning provide direction?
What is meant by staffing?
Identify the network of social relationships which arises spontaneously due to interaction at work.
What is informal communication?
State the meaning of controlling.
What is meant by capital structure?v
What is meant by management?
What is a Treasury Bill?
State any two advantages of branding to marketers of goods and services?
What makes principles of management flexible?
Planning reduces creativity. Critically comment.(Hint: both the points - Planning promotes innovative ideas and planning reduces creativity – will be given).
A company ‘M’ limited is manufacturing mobile phones both for domestic Indian market as well as for export. It had enjoyed a substantial market share and also had a loyal customer following. But lately it has been experiencing problems because its targets have not been met with regard to sales and customer satisfaction. Also mobile market in India has grown tremendously and new players have come with better technology and pricing. This is causing problems for the company. It is planning to revamp its controlling system and take other steps necessary to rectify the problems it is facing.
a. Identify the benefits the company will derive from a good control system.
b. How can the company relate its planning with control in this line of business to ensure that its plans are actually implemented and targets attained.
c. Give the steps in the control process that the company should follow to remove the problems it is facing.
What is marketing concept? How does it help in the effective marketing of goods and services.
How is the Principle of ‘Unity of Command’ useful to management? Explain briefly.
What is Consumer Protection?
“Capital structure decision is essentially optimisation of risk-return relationship.” Comment.
Give any two standards that can be used by a company to evaluate the performance of its Finance & Accounting department.
Discuss the following techniques of Scientific Work Study:
a. Time Study
b. Motion Study
c. Fatigue Study
d. Method Study
e. Simplification and standardisation of work
Financial management is based on three broad financial decisions. What are these?
Name the principle that a manager should consider while dealing with deviations effectively. State any one situation in which an organisation’s control system loses its effectiveness.