Decision Making Strategies for Tesco

The assignment discusses the impact of business environment on Tesco's decision making process. It highlights the importance of stakeholders in the success of the organization and how their relationships with them can be developed through meetings, emails, and social gatherings. The study also emphasizes the need for practical thinking, clearly defining difficulties, and adopting strategies to improve the decision-making process.

Managing Communication
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................5
TASK 2 ................................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Identification of stakeholders of Tesco for a decision making process.....................................5
2.2 Methods to make contact with its stakeholders in order to develop business relationships .....6
2.3 Involvement of stakeholders in decision making process........................................................7
2.4 Strategy for improvement decision making process of Tesco...................................................7
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................9
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Illustration Index
Illustration 1 Types of stakeholders in new retail company.................................................................6
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Index of Tables
Table 1: Activity plan for increase involvement of stakeholders in decision making process.............7
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INTRODUCTION
Communication is an important part of every organization. For taking effective decisions, a
proper coordination of both information and knowledge with communication is essential. The
environment in which firms are operating their business is more competitive (Hislop, 2013). In
order to meet the demands of the customers and expand the business, a proper communication,
knowledge and information requires. The present study is relating to managing communication,
information and knowledge. To understand its role in an organization, Tesco is taking into the
consideration (McPhail, 2011). The objectives will cover in present study will identification of
stakeholders, modes of making contact with the identified stakeholders and their involvement as
well as strategies use for improve decision making process.
TASK 2
2.1 Identification of stakeholders of Tesco for a decision making process
Stakeholder is a group of people who are investing their money in a company or project with
the intention of getting additional benefits. They are playing an important role in decision making
process of an organization (Tseng, 2010). For Tesco, it has been identified that there are two types
of stakeholders: primary and secondary. These are indirectly or directly affecting by various actions
of the organization. Primary stakeholders are those group of people that stand to be directly
affected by the activities of Tesco either positive or negative. These are management team,
employees, strategic partners, shareholders and strategic clients (Blanc and Bouillon, 2012). On the
other hand, secondary stakeholders are people which are indirectly or directly affected by actions of
Tesco. These group includes banks, media, government, competitors, clients, suppliers,
associations, customers, trade unions, community etc (Dwyer, 2012). The impact of different
decisions of company on secondary stakeholders can be either negative or positive.
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2.2 Methods to make contact with its stakeholders in order to develop business relationships
After identification of major stakeholders, the next task for Tesco creating the contact with
them to develop business relationship. In this context, there are some method by which company
can make contact with stakeholders are as follows:
Meetings: By organized formal or informal meetings, Tesco can get the chance to meet with the
stakeholders face to face. It helps in creating the new contract with them so that they can involve in
the decision making process (Coombs, 2014). In the meetings, company can discuss the different
policies and strategies with stakeholders and try to influence them to increase their investment in
different business projects.
Socially: It is known a good method of developing and creating a good relation with stakeholders.
Tesco can conduct a social gathering in the form of party either in hotel or a club. Here, the different
groups of people can easily interact with other and express their ideas in front of the company
(Galliers and Leidner, 2014). It helps in increase the communication between the stakeholders and
organization to minimize communication gaps.
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Illustration 1 Types of stakeholders in new retail company
(Source: Primary and Secondary Stakeholders of Organization, 2016)

Mails and calls: It is another method where Tesco can directly contact with the stakeholders, by
sending the mail, massage and calls, the overview of existing strategies and ideas can be expressed
in more effective manner (Dalkir, 2013).
Hence, with the help of above mentioned methods of communication, Tesco can create the
contact with identified stakeholders and develop a good business relationship with them.
2.3 Involvement of stakeholders in decision making process
High involvement of stakeholders in decision making process of a company is help in taking
more effective and appropriate decisions (Kebede, 2010)). For example, Tesco wants to launch a
new product in UK market and for better decisions and suggestions, company is trying new ways to
increase engagement of stakeholders in decision making process, in this context, organization needs
to develop a plan which is as showing in below table.
Table 1: Activity plan for increase involvement of stakeholders in decision making process
Activities Plan
Price strategy  Organize meeting by sending the mails to major stakeholders by
including venue, time and objectives of meeting.
 At the starting of meeting, share the objectives of launching of new
product in UK market.
 Discuss the pricing strategy on which a new product can be introduced
in the marketplace (Holsapple, 2013).
 Invite the suggestions from stakeholders on decide strategy and note
all of them.
 Make the discussions with them by selecting one best suitable option
by taking approval from all stakeholders on formulation pricing
strategy (Hislop, 2013).
 Develop a formal report after the meeting by including the different
and essential information. Send the report to major key stakeholders
through different modes of communication channels (Jones and Sallis,
2013).
2.4 Strategy for improvement decision making process of Tesco
In order to improve the decision making process, Tesco can adopt different strategies. It will
assist the organization to take more effective judgement. Clarify decision difficulties: For improving the decision making process, Tesco should
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prepare the list of the those difficulties which create a barrier at the time of taking decision.
By clearly defining the problems, it can be easy to find out the solutions of various issues. Taking support from different sources: Tesco should not underestimate the help of
employees, business partners or other external agencies. Their suggestions will surely help
the company to take right decisions and minimize confusing state (Decision Making
Strategies, 2016). Consider rage of alternatives: Tesco should take the help of others to explore the different
alternatives that can resolve the different issues during taking appropriate business
decisions. By creating a list of best possible options, organization can select right alternative
to minimize the impact of different factors on decision making process. Improve practical thinking: By adopting practical thinking approach, Tesco can easily
identify its core strengths. It assists the company to develop creative and critical thinking to
understand the various issues which directly or indirectly affect the decision making process
(Guidelines to improve decision making, 2016). Formal and informal meeting: By organizing the formal and informal meetings with
employees, Tesco can improve the decision making process in more effective manner. With
the help of this, company can get the right suggestion from the stakeholders and business
partners. Direct via media: By inviting the suggestions directly with the use of different media, Tesco
can improve decision making process in right direction (Blanc and Bouillon, 2012). Trust and confidentiality: By maintaining trust and confidentiality between the team
members and management, Tesco can enhance decision making process within the
workplace. Formal business relationship: By developing formal business relationship with different
business partners such as suppliers, distributors etc, their valuable suggestions may improve
decision making process of Tesco (Dwyer, 2012).
 Decision making and decision taking: This process helps the organization to set the process
of decision making and taking. With the help of this, Tesco will able to take right decisions.
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it can be concluded that business environment has affected the
business of Tesco in both positive and negative manner. Stakeholders have played an important role
in success of company. Identified group of people who are ready to invest the money in
organization has categorized into primary and secondary stakeholders. With the help of meetings,
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emails and social gathering, firm has able to developed the good relationship with them. Different
strategies such as adoption of practical thinking, clearly define difficulties etc, it has became easy to
improved decision making process of Tesco.
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