Local Government Strategy: Internal & External Impacts on Success

This report examines the employment strategy of the Bath and North East Somerset local council and its impact on McKinsey & Company, focusing on how internal and external environments contribute to the strategy's success. It explores government strategies designed to improve present conditions and facilitate future growth, highlighting their broad social, economic, and cultural effects. The report analyzes specific strategies, including working environment, employee relationship, support, growth, and compensation, and offers recommendations for successful implementation, such as establishing good work ethics, employee grievance cells, development plans, and promotion opportunities. It also discusses the advantages, such as achieving organizational goals and building a positive work culture, and limitations, including union interferences and diminishing employee-leader distinction, associated with implementing the employment strategy. The study concludes that effective employment strategies can significantly benefit both organizations and the community by fostering a thriving business environment and attracting talent.

Organizational Strategy
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
The Concept of Strategy..................................................................................................................5
To explore the strategy of one local government and how internal and external environments
contribute to the potential success of this strategy..........................................................................6
To reflect and provide recommendations for successful strategy implementation for the local
council studied.................................................................................................................................8
To include the advantages and limitations in your analysis............................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
Reference List................................................................................................................................12
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Introduction
The chosen region of the report is Bath and the North East Somerset and the organization is
Mc.Kinsey&Company. This report shall highlight the concept of strategy and how the
government strategies effect an organization. It will also help in identifying the importance of
strategies taken by the government. The report shows the how the organization’s internal and
external environments are responsible in making the developed strategies a success. It will also
show the advantages and limitations that Mc.Kinsey&Company will face relating to the
employment strategy enacted by the governing body of the Bath.
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The Concept of Strategy
The word ‘strategy’ means to develop a plan of action or a course of activities and processes to
be applied in achieving the desired objective. It means to arrange for the use of the valuable
resources available to the organization to achieve the objectives in the best possible manner in
the future (Bryson, 2018). The strategies are made at the present by keeping the goals to be
achieved in the future at the centre of the planning and carefully constructing a design which
helps reduce all the factors that might intervene in meeting the decided targets and lead to the
failure of the planning and organizations and the goals unmet.
The strategies taken by a government is always to improve the present conditions and always
pave a way for a better situation in the future. These are made to bringing changes in the
processes which require modifications due to inefficiency or failure. The government’s strategies
and its implementations cause large scale effects in the society at social, economic and cultural
levels (Brunsson and Olsen, 2018). It also helps to provided a guided access for the people,
communities and organizations within the jurisdiction of the government to operate in a
particular way or manner.
The organizations are deeply affected by the government strategies as they may contain rules and
guidance for them to follow in order to operate in the region governed by the respective
government. They can be affected in two ways, which are, internally and externally. The
management and employees inside the organization are affected by the internal impacts and the
political scenario and the society outside the organization cause the external impacts.
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To explore the strategy of one local government and how internal and external
environments contribute to the potential success of this strategy.
In this report the employment strategy of the local council of the Bath and North East Somerset
will be discussed. The strategies regarding employment by the government aims at securing the
interests of the employees as well as the organization generating employment. The organization
to be considered in this report is Mc.Kinsey&Company. Some of the strategies under the
employment strategies of government at Bath and North East Somerset and how they affect the
environment inside and outside the Mc.Kinsey&Company are given below:
Working Environment
This strategy of the government aims at providing a working environment which boosts the
performance of the employees and encourages and motivating them to work towards achieving
both personal and organizational goals. Organizations maintain the directives of the government
to maintain an environment which is employee friendly inside the organization and also takes the
inputs of the people and the factors outside to shape its management and planning (Petrou et al.,
2018). All the factors both internal and external help in bring success to such directives and need
to be followed.
Employee Relationship Strategy
Organization helps the clients to ensure that the governments’ directive towards the standard of
relationship and the management is maintained in the organization. The government helps to put
down guidelines on how the treatment of the employees in an organization should be carried out.
Organizations enable the management to enact the law complying methods that need to be
followed in order to help the strategy of the government do well (Cummings and Worley, 2014).
Employee Support Strategy
The government requires the organizations to follow the support systems which are developed to
provide bracing to the employee support strategy. Organizations help develop such management
strategies for their member and employees to successfully enact the developed plans to help them
operate inside their work space to support the government’s initiative (Bryce, 2017). Employee
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support strategies help the employees to have a good treatment provided by the management
inside and also have grievance reporting options.
Employee Growth Strategy
This directive of the governing authority was initiated to maintain the career growth and stability
for the employees. The people in the society in need employment which guarantees growth and
well being of person’s career. Organizations come into play in displaying a various management
theories to its employees who need the support of this directive towards employment (Klingner
et al., 2015).
Employee Compensation Strategy
A fixed method of compensation and a standard is to be maintained for all jobs of the same
profile in the market and the industry is stated under this part of the employment strategy.
According to this strategy there should be no biasness in the region and its industries relating to
employee compensation and equal pay for all similar jobs. Organization’s services towards the
acceleration of value creation for its employees help them to adopt all the such strategies which
are laid down by the governing bodies (Gomez-Mejia et al., 2014).
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To reflect and provide recommendations for successful strategy implementation for the
local council studied.
The recommendation for the successful implementation of the strategy includes many steps
which will enable the Mc.Kinsey&Company to comply with the governing bodies directives and
make employment strategies successful. Mc.Kinsey&Company by adopting these strategies will
not only improve its relationship with the employees but also improve its business performance
as well as comply with the governments strategies and help in making it a success. Steps that can
be taken by Mc.Kinsey&Company to make the implementation successful:
Good Work Ethics And Environment
The organization, Mc.Kinsey&Company, should provide a good set of rules and regulations to
provide the working and operations inside the organization happen in an ethical manner. The
organization should get the employees involved and communicated well with to make the
necessary changes and transform the environment into a better version.
1. Employee Grievance Cell
This step will help Mc.Kinsey&Company to always be able to track the factors which can
potentially cause employee dissatisfaction and help them to retain the members of the
organization by removing the causes of their dissatisfaction.
2. Employee Development Plans
Regular training and development plans of the employees need to be implemented so that
they are ready to achieve their career goals in the future as well as be able to tackle the
tasks and challenges that need to be faced and overcome. Through this they will be able
to have the potential to perform and help their own career thrive along with helping the
organization to grow as well.
3. Promotions And Growth
Regular assessments of the employee performance and periodic promotions and
opportunities to grow help motivate the employees and enable them to perform well. This
step helps both the organization and the government’s strategy to be successful and
benefits the employees as well.
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To include the advantages and limitations in your analysis.
The below mentioned table represents the advantages and limitations of the
Mc.Kinsey&Company by the implementation of the employment strategy:
Advantages Limitations
Achieving of the organizational goals
Building of good work culture
Growth of organization and employees
Union interferences
Diminishing employee and leader distinction
Table 1: Advantage and Limitations of Mc.Kinsey&Company
(Source: Created by Learner)
Advantages
Achieving of the organizational goals
The employment strategy will help the Mc.Kinsey&Company to achieve the organizational goals
though generating good employee morale and motivate them to perform well by implementing
the government’s strategy (Stewart and Gapp, 2014).
Building of good work culture
A good work culture can be maintained and ensured through these policies and will help the
employee to be satisfied in the organization. A satisfied employee always tends to perform well
and helps in reducing employee turnover (Lin, 2017).
Growth of organization and employees
This policy when applied by the Mc.Kinsey&Company will help it grow along with its members
and also help the governing authority in making the implementation of the developed
employment strategy successful by them. Growth of the organization and employees is
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interlinked and can be affected if any one takes a toll. The company’s grow when their members
perform well and the members add credentials to their careers (Anitha, 2014).
Limitations
Union interferences
The enactment of this policy can increase the interference of the unions into the functions and
management of the Mc.Kinsey&Company and pose potential issues in the smooth flow of its
operations. The union may become strong and try and create unnecessary issues for the
management (Parise et al., 2015).
Diminishing employee and leader distinction
The participative management theory may be applied in the employment directive towards
making the strategy of the local authority a success and might cause the fading of the line
between a leader and the members giving the leader not enough space to apply some the powers
of the position when required (Elnaga and Imran, 2014).
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Conclusion
This report contains the discussion of the strategies taken by the local authority or the governing
body in order to help the employment of the region get a boost and help the society and the
organizations in it to benefit from it. it also shows the advantages and limitations of the
Mc.Kinsey&Company face by the implementation of such strategies. It imparts valuable
knowledge on how the employment strategies help the society and region of the Bath and the
North Eastern Somerset benefit and become a global attraction in terms of employment and
business generation.
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