Manage Risk in Holden Ltd.

MANAGE RISK

Table of Contents
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1...........................................................................................................................................1
1.2...........................................................................................................................................1
1.3...........................................................................................................................................3
1.4...........................................................................................................................................6
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8
2.1...........................................................................................................................................8
2.2...........................................................................................................................................9
PART 3..........................................................................................................................................11
3.1 & 3.2...............................................................................................................................11
PART 4..........................................................................................................................................12
4.1.........................................................................................................................................12
4.2.........................................................................................................................................13
4.3.........................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

PART 1
1.1.
Holden Ltd. Is one of the most effective car manufacturing organisations within Australia
which has been operating for decades. The firm is currently dealing in high powered, along with
sports utility cars, which have diverse categories, as well as high manufacturing capacity. The
firm’s vision is to be the most successful organisation in the country within the automobile
sector, along with encourage and enthuse the products and service users through providing
offerings which are highly exclusive and valuable products which give the customers with
enhanced satisfaction.
As for its management structure, the firm owns more than 1,000 employees who are
responsible towards effectively and appropriately managing the whole production, distribution
and maintenance of the functions and products of the firm (GM Holden Pty Ltd - Premium
Company Report Australia, 2020). In relation to its organisational structure, it adopts divisional
structure, where divisions such as marketing, operations, production and manufacturing, finance
and HRM are very well segregated and each division has their own appropriate leaders, who are
responsible towards achieving the objectives set for a particular division (Cole, Giné and
Vickery, 2017).
Holden offers products that are very much diverse in nature. For example, being an active
part of General Motors, the firm manufactures sedans, family vehicles, utility vehicles, SUV,
small cars, hatchbacks, as well as sports vehicles as mentioned above. The production of the firm
happens at a very grand scale, which allows the company to successfully manage production of
all these products at a very high and desirable state.
1.2.
Stakeholder Stakeholder Role (internal or
external stakeholder)
Stakeholder’s issues or concerns/
priorities
e.g. Describe the
stakeholder
group or the title
such as CEO
Define are they internal stake-
holders or external stakehold-
ers, define what role this
group has with the
organisation
e.g. What influences this stakeholder
- a Finance Director’s priority may be
to increase profit margin by decreas-
ing expenses
CEO This individual is an internal The overall concern of this
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stakeholder of the company and
has a direct interest within its
actions due to being at the highest
position.
stakeholder within the company is to
earn maximum profit, as well as
market share in various countries.
EMPLOYEES These are also internal
stakeholders of the company and
are responsible towards carrying
out activities which allow an
organisation to achieve their
objectives.
The concern which employees have
within Holden is associated with
having a risk free and positive
working environment which provides
them opportunities to grow and
prosper in their careers.
CUSTOMERS In regards with customers, they are
external stakeholders of the
organisation and are the main
reason or its existence within the
market. They are the ones which
buy the organisation’s offerings
and generate revenue for the firm.
Their concern is related with the price
and quality of the product which they
acquire from the organisation.
Basically, they want an offering
which is a value for money for the
amount which they have spent in its
purchasing. Furthermore, they seek
highly differentiated, as well as high
quality offering which is safer to use,
comfortable and affordable as per
their desire.
GOVERNMENT Another external stakeholder,
Government includes various
agencies, organisations and
associations which are responsible
for making laws and legislative
practices which Holden has to
follow while dealing their products
within the market.
The government authorities of
Australia have various concerns in
regarding the work of this company
(Cagliano, Grimaldi and Rafele,
2015). For example, they have the
concern of whether the firm is
obeying the laws associated with risk
and safety of individuals or not.
Furthermore, another concern of
government is about manufacturing
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