Contemporary Issues in Business Management: A Critical Analysis of Asda and Marks Spencer

This report analyzes contemporary issues in business management, including globalization, innovation, and technology, and their impact on Asda and Marks Spencer. It also provides recommendations for improvement.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...........................................................................................................3
Critically analysis contemporary issues in the field of business, management and
leadership...............................................................................................................3
Identify and critically evaluate the impact of contemporary issues on
organizations..........................................................................................................3
Debate and defend personal perspectives on contemporary business management
issues......................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................3
REFERENCES........................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION

Contemporary issues in business refers to the issues which are directly affect the place or
people. Contemporary issues can be created by the globalization, economy, innovations etc
(Arai, and et.al., 2018). there are many issues in the business management which can affect the
business directly which includes innovation and change, ethics work, talented manpower,
electronic commerce etc. there are many contemporary issues in different-different sectors like
globalization has foreign worker exploitation, loss of culture etc. In other words, contemporary
issues define as the problems and opportunities which are related to current trend policies and
life. Asda and Marks Spencer company has been taken for this report which is both British
companies. This report will cover the critical analysis of contemporary issues of the company. it
will also cover the impacts of contemporary issues. It will cover some recommendations which
are helpful for the company. the overall study will cover the globalization, innovation and
technology impacts on the organizations.
MAIN BODY
Critically analysis contemporary issues in the field of business, management and leadership.
There are many contemporary issues which can affect the business, management,
leadership. Contemporary issues define as the globalization, innovation, technology which can
directly impact on business, management, leadership. In relation to Asda and Marks Spencer,
these contemporary issues are directly influence the company which is a difficulty to faced by
the companies (Gang, and et.al., 2018). There are various kinds of issues like Globalization,
innovation and technology which can affect the Asda and Marks Spencer’s business,
management, and leadership which are given below-
Contemporary issue of Globalization: It is refers to the flow of services and good, capital,
ideas, people around the world. it is the term which is used to describe the interconnections
between countries and analysis the relation with business, technology, culture etc. globalization
issues include terrorism, insecurity of job, price etc. there are some major issues which is affect
some points which are as follow-
 In Business: Globalization issues affect the business by increase the competition, growth
disproportionate, environmental issues, risk, public relations, ethical business practices
etc. these all issues can affect the business directly which is not suitable for any
organization or business (Giribone, Ligato, & Penone, 2018).

 In Management: Globalization issues for management is define as the management of
the company which is affected by the globalization. There are some challenges of
globalization which affect the management by international recruiting, managing
employee immigration, loss of culture, payroll etc.
 In Leadership: Globalization affect the leadership with some issues which are major by
the capabilities of efficiency work. There are some factors which may define the issues
for leadership which includes capacity to work, achievement the goals, responsible for
the task etc.
In context to Asda and Marks and spencer, they both are retailing company which are
multinational British companies. Globalization can affect the both companies in their business,
management, and leadership. Where are issues are faced by the companies. Both companies are
able to take risks, employee engage, capabilities of work more (Guo, and et.al., 2019).
Contemporary issue of Innovation: It is the one of the most fast important factors for any
organization, where innovation helps to change the overall organization process. But there are
some critical issues which are developing while the innovation. The process of innovation is
good for the company but it is also difficult to faced it. Innovation issues can be defined as the
many aspects like for business, management and leadership of the company. in relation to Asda
and Marks and Spencer there are some innovation issues which are divided into three categories
of the companies which are as follow-
 In business: business can face the issues of innovation such as missing innovation
strategies, empowered, lack of collaborations, customers relation etc. innovation is also
costly for a business and it is also waste of money to develop creativity which is not
purchase by anyone (Kiyokawa, and et.al., 2019).
 In management: There are some challenges which is faced by the management of any
company which includes innovation strategy, business model innovation, managerial
support etc.
 In Leadership: Leadership can be affected by the innovation by some factors which
includes employee are not motivated, lack of diversity, employee empowerment etc.

In Relation to Asda and Marks Spencer, Innovation issues on the companies’ categories
can affect the companies in business, leadership, management where different- different issues
faced by the company.
Contemporary issue of Technology: Technology issue or technical issues is the major issues
for any company or organization because in current times technology is the one of the most
important aspects for every sector which is use by every organization or firm (Lechthaler, &
Mileva, 2019). Technology issues can be defined as the issue in networks, cloud computing,
mobile payments, innovation etc.
 In business: For any business or organization technology plays a vital role. But
sometimes there are some technical issues which is face by the business such as
automation, digital transformation, automation, customer services etc.
 In management: Contemporary issues in management define as the collection of papers
of research. The issue in management can be major by some different departments of
management like human resources, business management, marketing management etc.
 In leadership: Technology issue can affect the leadership in communicate with people
digitally and found some technical errors. This type of issue can be major as the difficulty
of the leadership.
In Case of Asda and Marks Spencer, Technology can affect the business, management and
leadership of the both companies which is an issue for the companies. Technical issues are worst
issues which is faced by any company or organization (Lee, 2019).
Identify and critically evaluate the impact of contemporary issues on organizations.
There are many several activities which have an impact on overall function of the
company. every organization or company has impacted by contemporary issues where the
company needs some fundamentals situations for the development. In relation to Asda and
Marks and Spencer, there are many impacts which are raised in managerial situations. The
impacts of contemporary issues are as follow-
Impact of Contemporary issue - Globalization
 The development of the company by hiring new employees from another country is the
impact for a company. globalization helps to communicated and build the relation

between two or more different countries. Globalization impact on the companies can be
effective because of the contemporary issues. In relation to Asda and Marks and Spencer,
globalization contemporary issues will impact the company in communication.
 Globalization contemporary issue major by international recruiting, managing employee
immigration, loss of culture, payroll etc which is affect the company directly because
these all issues are the term of management of the company.
Impact of Contemporary issue –Technology
 Impact of technology is also the contemporary issue for the company or organization.
Every business and company in currents times only depends on the technologies
(Mehrizi, and et.al., 2019, August). The impact of technologies can be defined as the
network problems, net banking, mobile payments, cloud computing etc.
 To develop the business or any organization technology play a vital role but the technical
issues can be also difficulty which is faced by the company. in relation to Asda and
Marks and Spencer, the contemporary issue impact of technology can be measure by
calculation, data records, employee information etc.
Impact of Contemporary issue – Innovation
 As per research there are many numbers of workers and leaders in the company who
manage the all activities of the company with innovative and creative ideas. The impact
of innovation in the company can be very helpful for the employee and company which
helps to develop the task in creative way with applying new approaches.
 Innovation for any company play a important role because it is helps to develop the
company’s changes. The impact of innovation in relation to Asda and Marks and Spencer
innovation impact can helps the company to generate new ideas for achieve the goals
with success.
In case of Asda and Marks and Spencer, the impact of contemporary issues is developed by
the globalization, innovation and technology which will affected by some contemporary issue.
And it will cover by its impacts (Suter, 2019).

Debate and defend personal perspectives on contemporary business management issues.
The recommendation to Asda and Marks and Spencer is, they both are retailer company
and deals with many products in the UK. They should develop the many more stores in other
countries which is helps in globalization, they can develop the new innovation in the company
which can helps to attract the customers and also aware more customers about their product and
services. They can develop the technology which help the company in smart changes, they can
provide online services in many more countries which is helps in globalization with the help of
technology. In context to Asda and Marks and Spencer, both companies have many products and
services for the customer so, they should increase the efficiency of the worker which helps to
improve the worker performance. They can introduce more brands and products with the help of
innovation and technology. They should provide better services to their customers which helps to
fulfilled the needs and wants of the customers and satisfy them by providing goods and services
according to them. The recommendation will help the companies to analysis the current barriers
and solve it for the future (Wu, Xie, & Liu, 2018). Asda and Marks and Spencer can apply this
recommendation which help the company in future and can help to improve the performance of
the companies in future.
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it has been analysis that issues and problems are faced by every
organization or company, for achieve the success and goals there are many issues which is faced
them to achieve the goals. Contemporary issues are basically in many terms in different-different
sectors, organization, companies which can be divided into departments. This report analysis the
Asda and Marks and Spencer companies’ contemporary issues which is by globalization,
technology and innovation. This report helps to analysis the impact of contemporary issues in the
companies and also helps to provide the suitable recommendation for the Asda and Marks and
Spencer. The recommendation will help the companies to develop the performance of the
company which helps to improve the efficiency of work and helps to achieve the goals with
success. The overall study has been analysis the contemporary issues which is related by the
globalization, technology and innovation.

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