Strategic Management in Family Development Foundation

Running head: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN FAMILY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
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Strategic Management in Family Development Foundation
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Table of Contents
2. Overview and significance of the proposal study:.......................................................................2
3. Aims and objectives:....................................................................................................................3
4. Relevant literature:.......................................................................................................................4
4.1. Strategic management:..........................................................................................................4
4.1.1. PEST of Abu Dhabi:......................................................................................................5
4.1.2. SWOT:...........................................................................................................................7
4.2. Women empowerment and economic development:............................................................8
5. Research Design..........................................................................................................................8
6. Methodology................................................................................................................................9
7. Ethical issues.............................................................................................................................10
8. Assumed Outcomes...................................................................................................................11
9. Implications...............................................................................................................................11
10. Expected timescale:.................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

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2. Overview and significance of the proposal study:
The development and security of women and children are empirical to the development
of family as well as society. The World Bank reports that the rate of participation of women in
the labour force in Abu Dhabi has increased in the high income while it has fallen in the middle
income group. Women continue to acquire more jobs in the low income bracket while the
percentage of women employees shows rise in the national statistics. However, in spite of these
encouraging statistics, women needs more empowerment to be able to improve their social status
at par with their male counterparts. Strategic management can be used to achieve further
development and lay stronger foundations of the families in Abu Dhabi. Family Development
Foundation is organ of the Government of Abu Dhabi which strives to improve and strengthen
the status of women.
Figure 1. Ratio of female to male labour force participation (%)
(Source: Datatopics.worldbank.org. 2018)

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It is evident from the graph above that Family Development Foundation has achieved
success in empowerment and development of women. This means that the body has achieved
success in the area of laying stronger family foundation based on greater economic development
of women which in turn enable mothers to meet the needs of the children better. This has led to
greater economic condition among the families in Abu Dhabi. The report would explore
application of strategic management in measuring the performance management excellence
achieved by Family Development Foundation. The paper would take into the account the
framework of strategic management namely external environment analysis of Abu Dhabi
followed by SWOT of the government. This would pave ways for the body for finding out
the gaps in its present effort, thus laying foundations of its future objectives to boost
performance of the government body. The entire study would take place under the
inspiration of Abu Dhabi Vision 2030.
3. Aims and objectives:
The primary aim of the report would be delving into the role of strategic management in
achieving performance excellence of Family Development Foundation, Government of Abu
Dhabi. Abu Dhabi Vision 2030 would act as a driving force towards achievement of the
objective. It is a term coined by the government to mark 2030 as a year when the city aims to
achieve a very high degree of development in all respect right from social to economic
development surpassing all the other Middle East economies. It is evident that Abu Dhabi Vision
2030 is largely a macroeconomic development. This necessitates to carry out macroeconomic
analysis of Abu Dhabi in the light of the vision. This third objective would be to carry out
SWOT analysis of FDF to find out how the body can use the macroeconomic factors to align its
operations with the vision.