Study on Strategic Management
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Leeds Beckett University
Added on 2020-04-21
Study on Strategic Management
Leeds Beckett University
Added on 2020-04-21
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RUNNING HEAD: Strategic Management1Strategic Management
Strategic Management2Table of ContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................................................3Whittington’s approaches to strategy.........................................................................................................3Evolutionary approach to strategy..........................................................................................................3Processual approach to strategy.............................................................................................................4Similarities and dissimilarities between Evolutionary and Processual approach to strategy.......................4Similarities...............................................................................................................................................4Common perspective...........................................................................................................................4Focus...................................................................................................................................................4Basic premises.....................................................................................................................................5Emergent procedure............................................................................................................................5Dissimilarities..........................................................................................................................................5Concept...............................................................................................................................................5Rationale..............................................................................................................................................5Processes.............................................................................................................................................6Evolutionary and Processual schools challenges.........................................................................................6Evolutionary schools of strategy challenges............................................................................................6Improve organization environment.....................................................................................................6Build and raise good connection among employees...........................................................................6Provide opportunities for mutual preparation....................................................................................7Processual school of strategy:.................................................................................................................8Equate management standards...........................................................................................................8Manage strategies in a creative manner, establish flexibility within the organization........................8Provides employee development opportunities on viable techniques................................................9Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................9References...................................................................................................................................................9
Strategic Management3IntroductionStrategic management is defined as the administration of a company’s assets in order to accomplish its objectives and aims. According to Freeman (2010), strategic Management includes setting goals, examining the competitive atmosphere, inspecting the internal management, assessing the techniques and methods, and ensuring that management rolls out the techniques across the organization. This report critically examines the common and dissimilar factors between the evolutionary and processual schools of strategy explained by Whittington. The report also analyzed the synchronization of these schools challenges with the contemporary issues. The main purpose of this report is to gain knowledge about strategic management, the phases of strategy and the considerations that must be created before constructing the ideal technique.Whittington’s approaches to strategyAccording to Hitt et al. (2012), Whittington’s approaches to strategy are a normal and intended way to deal with techniques formulation with a unitary goal of profit maximization. The main schools of strategy such as an evolutionary and processual strategy to approach are explained as follows (Golsorkhi et al., 2010):An evolutionary approach to strategy: According to Cox et al., (2016), the Whittington'sEvolutionary Approach to strategy depends on the conviction that the economic development is constantly evolving. The evolutionary way to strategy is a new way to deal with procedure plan, it depends on the capacity of the market to secure a unitary objective of profit maximization. This approach is formulated with survival as their targets. This characterization is impacted by economics and science and strategic plan in completed on the premise of the outside variables, mainly the market. The techniques which come under this approach are short-term techniques which are created in order to survive in the market and not to manage in the long term. The companies which pursue these techniques are limited and only consider the present and not the future. The environmental school of strategy recommends Mintzberg come under the evolutionary viewpoint towards the procedure. For example, Starbucks aims is to re-looking at
Strategic Management4the strategic methods is a good example of an evolutionary approach to strategy which creating an emotional relationship by bringing together the ideal of the human soul with the local. According to Cantwell et al. (2010), to encourage and sustain the human soul is a huge calling and want and afterward to create it locally with one individual, one glass, and one neighborhood presents to everything to the heart (Finnegan et al., 2010). Workers can feel this reason and embody it while customers feel the reality of that objective every period he or she visits a local Starbucks. Processual approach to strategy: According to Fearon et al. (2013), the processual approach techniques are formulated with undefined goals. This characterization is impacted by psychology and strategic plan is done on the basis of the internal variables, most of the part is politics and viewpoint. The techniques which come under this approach consists high risk and the companies adopting these techniques are extremely risk-oriented (Fragueiro and Thomas, 2011). These companies set up a technique to ensure whether it is correct or not and then manageit if it is unsuccessful. The cognitive and the learning school of the strategic plan proposed by Mintzberg come under the processual point of view towards the system. Whittington approach to strategy gives the idea that in the processual approach technique rises from regular operations of the authoritative qualities and from the market forms, strategies are best created in a middle-up-down incremental process (Brown and Thompson, 2013). In terms of the goal to be achieved, processual researchers believe that the organization's goal is not always the same that is profit maximization, however, that it is affected by the particular circumstance the organization ends up in at a specific timeframe.Similarities and dissimilarities between Evolutionary and Processualapproach to strategyAccording to George and Bock (2011), the evolutionary and processual approaches both are the methods of strategy are very imperative for organizations to have in mind before crafting a technique and these approaches help the business to teach how to monitor the strategies in order to have the ideal strategy. The main similarities and dissimilarities between these two approachesare explained as follows:
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