The Impact of Brexit on Organizational Activities of St. George PLC

This report analyzes the impact of Brexit on the organizational activities of St. George PLC, focusing on corporate strategy and governance. It begins with an introduction outlining the aim and objectives of the research, which is to understand the issues impacting organizational activities and analyze the influence of Brexit on the corporate strategies of St. George PLC. The literature review explores factors affecting organizational activities, including motivational and political factors, with a specific focus on how Brexit has influenced the property market and supply chains. The research methodology section details the research philosophy (interpretivism), strategy (qualitative), design (descriptive), and approach, including data collection methods, using both primary and secondary sources. A Gantt chart is included to illustrate the research timeline. The conclusion summarizes the impact of Brexit on St. George PLC's operations and emphasizes the importance of strategic adjustments. The report references several books and journals related to Brexit, corporate strategy, and property markets.

Corporate Strategy and
Governance

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title.............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Brief overview.............................................................................................................................1
Aim..............................................................................................................................................1
Objectives....................................................................................................................................1
Specification................................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................2
GANTT CHART.............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Title
To analyse the impact of Brexit on organisational activities of St. George PLC
INTRODUCTION
Brief overview
Corporate strategy is considered as an important measure that helps a business to achieve
all its objectives and targets (Garrick, 2018). Also, it ensures an efficient rate for the long term
success of an organisation. Corporate governance deals with a variety of practices that can help
in controlling the procedures of an organisation. The research is about discussing different issues
throwing an impact on the strategic and governance activities of St. George PLC.
Aim
To analyse the impact of Brexit on organisational activities of St. George PLC
Objectives
 To understand the issues impacting organisational activities.
 To analyse the influence of Brexit on corporate strategies of St. George PLC.
 To recommend ways of analysing the impact of different issues on an organisation.
Specification
The involvement of Brexit has affected enormous measures. Some of these well known
factors that have been impacted after Brexit involves the legal system, parliament factors,
budgets, rate of international agreements etc. In some cases, the impact of Brexit has actually
changed the processing of various functions and operations. Therefore, it is very important to
analyse the influence of Brexit on corporate strategic management and governance of St. George
PLC so that modifications can be made where required.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Issues impacting organisational activities
There are enormous number of factors that may term as a challenge or barrier in order to
achieve objectives and targets within an organisation. Some of the well known examples of it can
be considered as lack of motivation, lesser scope etc. It is because these activities can actually
throw an influence on the strategic management of St. George PLC (Wright, Wilson and Amess,
2016). Also, there are some political factors as well that influences the organisational activities
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of an organisation, so Brexit can also be considered as a factor responsible for changes in
strategic management of St. George PLC.
Influence of Brexit on corporate strategies of St. George PLC
As St. George PLC is known for dealing with properties, so Brexit has thrown a huge
influence on the property measures. Brexit has shown major changes in some industries within
UK, even including the construction industry. One of a major issue is that the overall number of
property dealers are already increasing in the market place and then, the involvement of Brexit
made it worse in some areas. For shipping of the construction material overseas, there has been
observed an increase in the shipping charges (Bristow and Robinson, 2018). So, it has impacted
the operations of St. George PLC as well to a huge extent. Also, the firm was unaware of the
happening of Brexit, so majority of the suppliers are international. Thus, after Brexit, the firm
has faced various issues with these suppliers as well because their terms and conditions have
been changed as well. So, involving local suppliers by St. George PLC can be considered as a
beneficial factor for bringing modifications and improvements. This can also help them to
achieve greater outputs again. Therefore, it will help the firm to satisfy their customers as well
easily.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research is classified as making involvement of data and information collected from
various sources so that it can be able to make the whole research more effective and appropriate.
There are variosu measures associated with research methodology and these are discussed as
under :
Research philosophy
Research philosophy helps in providing a way about the methods, information must be
collected (Janssens, 2017). After the collection of data, it helps in a way for analysing it.
Different means of it can been positivism, Interpritivism etc. In this research, interpritivism has
been used as it can help in understanding the impacts by Brexit on St. George PLC.
Research strategy
Research strategy refers to the fact of involving some technique or way in between the
research that can help in making the quality of research more efficient. It can be further termed
as either qualitative or quantitative. Researcher will use qualitative strategy in this study because
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it can help them to have a better understanding of issues, including Brexit on different startegic
activities of St. George PLC.
Research design
Research design is termed as the type of study. There are different types of research
design such as descriptive, experimental, semi experimental etc. On the basis of current
requirements, descriptive design method will be used in this research for analysing Brexit and its
impact on activities and functions of St. George PLC (Netto and Craig, 2017).
Research approach
Research approach is a proper plan that consists of various stages that are required for
maintaining the effectiveness of the whole study. It can be termed as either qualitative or
quantitative. Qualitative approach is used by the researcher in this study.
Data collection
Collection of data means gathering information from different sources. It can be
performed by either primary or secondary method. In case of primary, researcher has to gather
information himself whereas in secondary, the data that has been gathered by some other
individual is used for research by the researcher. There are various sources for primary as well as
secondary data. Some examples of primary involve questionnaires, focused groups and of
secondary, it involves online, journals etc. Primary data is being used in this research for
achieving of a better analysis of Brexit on various activities of St. George PLC.
GANTT CHART
Basis Week
1
Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8
Understand
ing
problem
Analysing
basic aim
On the
basis of
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aim,
making
objectives.
Literature
review
Research
methodolog
y
Analysing
all gathered
information
Conclusion
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the study that there are various issues throwing an impact on
different organisational activities of St. George PLC and Brexit also plays a major role. Different
factors and measures that have been impacted by Brexit have been discussed in the report.
Objectives on the basis of themes have been made and described accordingly. Different concepts
of research methodology have been discussed in the research as well.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Janssens, M.C., 2017. The legal and institutional framework of International and European
intellectual property law & impact of Brexit on IP law.
Garrick, J., 2018. A critical discourse on tacit knowledge management and the performative
agenda: Implications for industry training and development. European Journal of
Training and Development.
Bristow, A. and Robinson, S., 2018. Brexiting CMS. Organization, p.1350508418786057.
Netto, G. and Craig, G., 2017. Migration and Differential Labour Market Participation:
Theoretical Directions, Recurring Themes, Implications of Brexit and Areas for Future
Research. Social Policy and Society. 16(4). pp.613-622.
By, R.T., Ford, J. and Randall, J., 2017. Changing times: what organizations can learn from
Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election.
Wright, M., Wilson, N. and Amess, K., 2016. Brexit, private equity and management. British
Journal of Management. 27(4). pp.682-686.
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