Comprehensive Report on CSL Management Strategies and Practices

This report provides an in-depth analysis of CSL, a bio-technical company, focusing on its management strategies and practices. It begins with an overview of management principles, vision, mission, and core competencies. The report examines CSL's strategic approaches, including contingency and Porter's strategies, along with growth strategies such as market penetration and expansion. It addresses stakeholder perspectives, particularly customers and competitors, and their impact on the organization. A significant portion of the report explores the resource-based model, analyzing resources, capabilities, and competitive advantages. The report also delves into SWOT analysis, highlighting CSL's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Finally, it examines organizational culture types, including power, role, task, and person cultures, and their influence on the company's operations and decision-making processes.

INTRODUCTION TO
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
1........................................................................................................................................................3
2........................................................................................................................................................4
3........................................................................................................................................................5
4........................................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Management basically aims at managing the people and controlling over them.
Administration basically focus at performing the five functions mainly planing ,organising,
staffing,directing,controlling. It focuses on accomplish the desired goals and objectives of the
organisation and leads to fuller utilisation of their human resources. The authority aims at
organization and controlling over the activities performed within the organisation. They includes
various managers and supervisors having the power and authority to take responsibility for the
work performed in the organisation (Freeman., 2010).The management mainly aims for
managing the people working within the organisation. The CSI leads to manage their people
effectively and recruiting the suitable candidate for their operational working .The main of CSL
is to provide the equipments which would help the emergency human begin that would help to
survive in difficult condition. In this report it is been mentioned about its vision, mission and
objectives and that is been said that about its strategies, etc.
TASK
1.
CSL should know all the things related to the process and environment so that they can
be able to achieve there vision, mission, etc. of the organisation. CSL should have the proper
knowledge of all the things so that they can be able to make clear about there vision, mission and
all so that they can focus on that.
 Vision- Vision is an state where the organisation aim is been set. While creating an
organisation they had planned something for what they have to do by that. and which
they have to do in the future. And the plans which are been made for the future to make it
true and achieve it (Helfatand Winter., 2011). CSL is also having the future plan in which
they want to make the best bio technicals in the entire place so that the people can take
the benefits of that in an less amount. They want to provide the best equipments/ products
to treat the humans in an serious conditions.
 Mission- It states the organisation exists. In the mission it is been seen that what is the
actual reason for what the organisation is exists and for what they had been made this.
CSL mission is to make the quality products for treating the serious conditions patients so

that they can get there lives back. So they are try to produce the best possible products so
that the people can get there life back by best treatments.
 Core competitive- In the core competence the competitions of the organisation is been set
and they use to know all the things and the process and steps which are taken by there
competitors so that they can make the plans related to there process so they can over
come their competitors (Anderson and et. al, 2015).
CSL use to follow some of the approaches to make the organisation to fulfil there needs.
And to do there work in an proper manner which will make them to grow there organisation and
so that they can get many profits(Hessand Rothaermel., 2011). In the past they have where using
the contingency approach that is been used when ever any of the situations come by sudden in
the organisation and in present they are using the porter's strategies as they can help them in
calculation and in having the proper of the cost and values, this will help them to view cost and
to know how can they manage it. They have to follow some of the strategies in there organisation
which will help them doing there work in an proper way. Strategies help the organisation to
make good plans, emergent strategy is action plan, and it is related to the time, and the behaviour
from the emergent strategy it might help in adopting an flexible to the possibility of changing of
the market conditions. Strategic partnership is the relationship which is between the two of the
commercial business, and it is manly formed by the one or more contracts. In this the two
different business meet together as the CSL is in the contact of the hospitals for whom they
provide the equipments for the patients who are in serious conditions (Chaffey and White.,
2010). In the organisation the strategies which is been used to make the better growth and in
increasing of the things is been know as the growth strategies. In growth strategies CSL can do
the market penetration, and market expansion, and the product expansion..
2.
CSL is an bio technical company which use to provide the emergency life saving
equipments to the hospitals. In the past they where using the Contingency approach which helps
them in making the decisions where ever they face any of the problems at sudden they have to
take decisions in the organisation for the different problems which they are facing. They can face
some of the criticism by some of the different stakeholders like:

 Customers- Customers are the people who plays an main and important role in the
organisation which gives the organisation to grow, they are those who use to buy the
products and services of the organisation from which the organisation will get earnings
and growth among the others(Hill., Jones and Schilling., 2014). So it is important to
make them happy and to provide them the best products and the services according to
there needs and wants. They have to focus on the customers which would help them to
improve there sales and in growing their organisation in better way. They would have to
make them satisfy so that they would not choose any other competitors.
 Competitors- competitors are the people which are producing and providing the same
kind of the goods and the services to the people so that are the competitors so the
organisation so they have to make better and little unique kind of the products and the
services to the people. The competitors can affect the organisation as they use to make
the best possible ways to produce the products so that they can be better so the CSL
should know all the strategies of the competitors so that they also can make changes
according to that. They should follow the major and important strategies which would
make them do their work in an proper way and that could help them to make better
decisions (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
3.
Resource based model is a tool which helps in doing the analysis on the environment and on the
basis of that they can measure the performance so that they can attain the success in the
competitive market (Hodgkinson and Healey., 2011). Resource based model helps in viewing
the strategy which assist in emphasizing the economic rent so that they can create the different
products and services by using the distinct capabilities. This tool help the CSL limited so that
they can measure the competitive advantage as well as they have to attain the success in the
competitive markets so that they can earn the economic rent. The productive factor which is
required to accomplish the activity and they have to undertake the enterprise and they have to
achieve the desired outcome. The different resources which they can use are land, labour and
material. Along with this there are other resources which involves the energy, entrepreneurship,
information, management along with the time. This model includes the five steps which are:

 Resources: the employees of CSL limited have to use appropriate and available resources
so that they can do proper manufacturing (Makri., Hitt and Lane., 2010). They have to
use inputs which helps in doing the production process of the firm and on the basis of that
they can provide the best and quality products and services to the consumers.
 Capability: The employees as well as managers have to use proper capability along with
the knowledge and skills so that they can produce the correct products. The employees of
the firm having a capacity of the integrated set of resources so that they perform well and
complete the task in a proper as well as effective manner.
 Competitive advantage: The staff members of CSL Limited which produce the
equipments so that they can treat the person on the basis of their medical conditions. The
employees having a ability to produce the best products and attain the success from their
competitors. Along with this they can maintain the standards in the market.
 Attractive industry: In this industry, company having a huge opportunities which they
have to capture and it can be fulfilled by using the appropriate resources as well as
capabilities of the employees and on the basis of that they can accomplish the goals and

objectives (Powell., Lovalloand Fox., 2011). They have to provide the attractive products
which consumers can easily purchase and by that they can increase their performance in
the market.
 Strategy formulation and implementation: The employees have to use or adopt the
appropriate strategy which helps the business entity in providing the best product so that
they can not face any issue in implementing the strategy and meeting the goals and
objectives.
CSL can analyse their environment by the SWOT analyses also as that can tell about their
strength, weakness, opportunities, threat. Which would help them to know about the
environments.
 Strength:- CSL can do the analyses which would help them to know about their strength
and that would help them in making strategies according to their strength so that they
would make use of their strength (Runge, 2011).
 Weakness:- By doing the SWOT analyses they would be able to know about their
weakness so that they can make improvements and can convert their weakness into their
strength.
 Opportunities:- SWOT analyses helps to know the CSL organisation to know all the
opportunities which they can make in use of so that they can make an proper decision in
the organisation.
 Threats:- threats ca make the company in becoming threat from any of the case it can be
internal threats or external threats, which would make problems in the organisation.
4.
Organisational culture is an culture which includes the values, and believe of the
particular person working in the organisation and it tells how they use their believes and values
in the organisation to perform their task in an proper manner()_. The organisation have four
types which are:
 Power culture- In this there are some set of rules and regulations. This judge the
employees not by how they had work to achieve there task provide to them but they
judge by the result what they had got. Swift of the decisions can be done in the power

culture. They have to identify there power and have to make use of there power in right
manner so that they can achieve there goals an objectives of the organisation.
 Role culture- it is an culture which is based on the rules. This use to followed by every
person by knowing the roles and responsibility of the individuals over there. The power
of the role is been define by the position the person has in the organisation(Terziovski.,
2010). Has all the people is having the particular roles and responsibility they have to
maintain that while working in the organisation so that they can be able make many
change in the organisation according to there roles and responsibilities.
 Task culture- Task is been formed when any of the teams use to solve any of the
problems or to assign any projects. They has the power in teams they does not have the
single power in the team. They form an team of some of the persons included in tit with
different values, believes, and knowledge, etc. so they have the advantages of solving the
problems in an different and unique way as because all have the different kinds of
thought and ideas.
 Person culture- the person things they are the superior in the organisation. The
organisation is been opened to provide the work for the peoples. And that is having the
different kinds of people doing the similar kinds of work in the organisation.
Leadership style should be there in an CSL limited so that they could provide the
direction, and help in implementing the plans and to motivate the people in their organisation so
that it would help the employees to do their work in proper manner. This would help the
organisation in growing in faster way (Frederickson and Ghere, 2013). Leadership style would
help the employees in getting the help when ever they required.
CONCLUSION
In the above report it is been concluded that the all the people who are working in the
organisation should know the vision, mission, core competence of the organisation so that they
can able to work according to that and can able to achieve them. They should focus on the
strategies which they have been made and as well as they have to plan to implement the new
strategies according to the situations of the organisation. All the strategies should be planned in
an proper way so that they could make the proper use of it which would help them to use in an
actual condition. and when they have to be implemented so do the work in an proper manner.

They should follow some of the techniques to know about their organisations strength and
weakness and opportunities and threats.

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