Leadership and Management Report: Native Bush Spices Case Study

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of leadership and management principles, focusing on strategic planning, risk management, and organizational values. The report begins by examining strategic planning, including developmental, financial, and reputation risks, along with ri...Read More

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Table of Contents
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................2
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................7
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Task 1
1. The three examples taken into account for developing and implementing strategic
planning includes:
 Developmental risk: The risk can be identified while ensuring development by
implementing strategic planning.
 Financial risk: Implementing strategic planning always imposes the threat of
exceeding the allocated budget.
 Reputation risk: Strategic planning imposes the risk of hampering the reputation if
unsuccessful (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson, 2012).
2. Two examples of risk management strategies includes:
 Recording risk: One of the examples of risk management includes recording the
risks that has happened within the organization over the years. This will allow the
organization to be aware of the potential reasons of occurrence of the risk.
 Monitoring: Monitoring the risks provides an opportunity for the organization to
identify the potential risks and develop strategies to mitigate them.
3. One of the examples of risk management for managing intellectual property risks
includes using the standard intellectual property policies effectively. This will help in
ensuring that the business understands the risks related to intellectual property (Hill,
Jones & Schilling, 2014).
4. Conducting SWOT analysis as a part of the strategic planning process provides an
opportunity for the organization to identify their strength and weakness based on which
the opportunities and weakness is developed. Therefore, understanding own strength and

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weakness allows the organization to develop strategies accordingly for conducting
business successfully (Peppard & Ward, 2016).
5. The four questions that could be used while conducting SWOT analysis includes:
 Which is the strongest asset of the organization?
 What areas do the organization needs improvement?
 What are the current ongoing trends that will affect the organization positively?
 What are the current obstacles that the organization is facing in achieving the
current mission?
6. The benefits of conducting PESTLE analysis allow the organizations to develop a better
understanding of the wider business environment. Additionally, PESTLE analysis helps
the organization in identifying and exploiting them successfully. A PESTLE analysis is
conducted by considering the political, economic, social, technological, legal and
environmental of the country.
7. The four questions considered while conducting a PESTLE analysis includes:
 What are the governmental policies that are likely to affect the organization?
 What are the economic trends that favour the organization?
 What are the emerging technologies that affect the organization?
 What are the demographic changes within the target population that will affect
the organization?
8. The two internal sources that a business could use to find out about its market,
competitors, customer base, vision, values and capabilities includes TOWS analysis and
VRIO framework (Swayne, Duncan & Ginter, 2012).

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9. The two external sources that a business could use to find out about its market,
competitors, customer base, vision, values and capabilities includes Porter’s five forces
and 12 C framework.
10. The main purpose of developing organizational values is to support the vision of the
organization thereby, shaping the organizational culture and reflecting the core values of
the company. The two techniques that could be used to identify the values as a part of the
strategic planning process are assessing the current organizational culture by
benchmarking and reviewing the strategic planning.
Task 2
1. The mission, vision and strategic objectives of Native Bush Spices, Australia.
 Mission: To open new branches of the company in different parts of Australia
 Vision: To provide the customers with the best native spices
 Value Statements: The values includes profit, people, portfolio and partners.
 Strategic objectives:
 Developing and improving products and services
 Engaging customers
The mission, vision and strategic objectives of Spice & Co
 Mission: To embrace strategic alliance and consider new partnership opportunities
 Vision: To be more innovative and find new ways for increasing the efficiency of
processes and effectiveness of customer solutions
 Value Statements: Respect, care, excellence and integrity
 Strategic objectives:

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 To increase the business internationally
 Innovative products and services to the customers
The mission, vision and strategic objectives of The Suacy Spice Co.
 Mission: To identify the needs of the population
 Vision: Donate profit to the community
 Value Statements: Integrity, care, innovativeness and excellence
 Strategic objectives:
 Building partners and gain loyalty
 Increasing the return to the shareowners
Notes on meeting with the stakeholders:
 Build new partnerships and strategic alliance
 Participating in the community
 Developing new ideas that remained unidentified during previous strategic planning.
2. The meeting was conducted with the management team in order to make them aware of
the revised mission, vision, value statement and business objectives of the Native Bush
Spices, Australia. While conducting the meeting with the management, effective
communication was significant. As commented by Eden & Ackermann (2013), having a
clear speech is very important while communicating with group of people. Clear speech
helps in better understanding and communication of the ideas with the others present in
the meeting. Additionally, the individuals present in the meeting are able to related with
the meeting thereby, seeking their attention and concentration.

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According to Hair et al., (2012), the individual conducting the meeting needs to be
spontaneous thereby, reverting promptly to the management team. This helps in making
the meeting successful and fulfilling the objectives of the meeting. Responding promptly
to the questions of the management helps in engaging the individuals present in the
meeting. Active listening is also a significant part of meetings as this helps grabbing
things spontaneously and maintaining the clarity of the information shared (Slack, 2015).
3. The email sent to the stakeholders after the meeting for approval is furnished below:
Mission/Vision review
To,
Respected Stakeholders,
I, hereby, present the new mission, vision, value and business objectives and the notes
from the meetings
 Mission: To open new branches of the company in different parts of Australia
 Vision: To provide the customers with the best native spices
 Value Statements: The values includes profit, people, portfolio and partners.
 Strategic objectives:
 Developing and improving products and services
 Engaging customers
At the end of the meeting, it can be concluded, that the revised mission, vision, value
statement and business objectives needs to be considered by the management and the
stakeholders for bringing innovativeness to the products and services offered by the
company to the Australian community. Additionally, this will help in gaining competitive
advantage for Native Bush Spices, Australia and sustain in the competitive market.

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Task 3
1. In order to research Native Bush Spice Australia’s market, competitors and target
customers, the three sources of information used were official website of the company,
Australian governmental website and official websites of the competitors.
2. The risks of the potential cooperative ventures include:
 Fear of non-acceptance
 Exceeding the budget
 Failure in communicating with the target customers
The benefits of the cooperative ventures includes:
 Business expansion
 Competitive advantage
 Business sustainability
The PESTLE analysis is conducted in order to identify the external forces that is affecting an
organization. The is a simple analysis from the organizational perspectives in respect to political,
economic, social, technological, legal and environmental influences. The PESTLE analysis of
Native Bush Spice, Australia include:
The political factors are generally affected by:
 Minimum wage and anti-discriminatory laws
 Regulations of the market
 Voluntary practices and codes
 Tax breaks and tax levis

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 Government type such as dictatorship, labour, democratic and communist (Joshi, Singh
Ubha & Sidhu, 2012).
Therefore, the political factor that will affect Native Bush Spices, Australia are:
 Tax on importing machines for processing the price will be removed
 Possibility of introduction to impose greenhouse gas tax on each energy intensive
products for commercial purpose.
The economic factors are influenced by:
 Current economic trends and situation
 Global economic trends and situation
 Distribution of the market
 Exchange rates and interest
 Current trends of international trades (Guirco & Cooper, 2012).
Therefore, the economic factor that will affect Native Bush Spices, Australia is:
 Strengthening the Australian dollar against the trading partners in the future.
The social factors are influenced by:
 Demographics
 Demands and opinions of the target customers
 Technology, company and brand
 Publicity and advertising (Kremer & Symmons, 2015)
Therefore, the social factors that will affect Native Bush Spices, Australia are:

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 Rate of steady growth of population
 The trend, lifestyle and eating habits of the population
The technological factors that will affect Native Bush Spices, Australia are:
 Implementation of latest technology
 Less consumption of greenhouse gases
Therefore, the technological factor that will Native Bush Spices, Australia are:
 The new machines for manufacturing the spices are developed keeping the mind less
consumption of energy
 The home market for manufacturing spices are experiencing high growth rate.
The legal factors that will affect Native Bush spices, Australia are:
 Intellectual property law
 Common law of business
Therefore, the legal factor that will Native Bush Spices, Australia are:
 Protecting their copyright of the business
 Prohibiting discrimination
The environmental factors that will affect Native Bush spices, Australia are:
 Corporate social responsibility
 Business sustainability
Therefore, the legal factor that will Native Bush Spices, Australia are:

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 Environmental friendly approach of conducting business
The SWOT analysis is a tool that is used for identifying the strengths, weakness, opportunities
and threats from the organizational perspectives. The SWOT analysis also helps in identifying
the aim of the project by identifying the external and internal features that helps in achieving the
goals. The objectives of the SWOT analysis includes:
 Disclosing the competitive advantage
 Exploring the chances of product development, productivity and sales
 Preparing the company for setbacks
 Preparing the company for emergency arrangements
Strength
 Good reputation after the sales
 Excellent implementation of marketing
mix
 Effective management of information
Weakness
 Poor performance by the company
 Lack of experience individuals in order
to deal with customs and import
Opportunities
 Using internet for advertising
 Withdrawing competitor from the
Australian market
 Maximizing the growth rate of the
population
Threats
 The disposable income can be reduced
due to increasing rates of interest
 Native Bush Spices is a new company
entering into the new venture
 The suppliers are also entering the new
market in Australia.

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Task 4
1. After analysing the data provided, it can be said in the report that the Native Bush Spices,
Australia have the potential of growth in the country. The company needs to establish
effective communication between the management and the employees. The revised
mission, vision, value statement and business objectives of Native Bush Spices, Australia
is aimed towards increasing the business both nationally and internationally. This will
provide an opportunity for the Native Bush Spices, Australia to gain competitive
advantage and sustain in the competitive market.
2. According to me, the Native Bush Spices, Australia has been able to achieve the
performance indicators successfully. Based on the increase in the business and the
customers, this can be proved.
3. Overall progress: The Native Bush Spices, Australia is said to be performing well, as the
profit margins have already increased by 2% in the last 6 months. This is because the
bulk buying has been instigated initially due to increased demand at the early stage. By
implementing networking marketing strategy and social media, the marketing strategies
of Native Bush Spices, Australia has already been achieved. However, on the contrary,
the developed strategies have not been implemented in the branches in the Northern
territory of Australia due to issues in hiring agents and maintaining contractors. The
strategy of using minimal energy has been working successfully. For example, a
reduction in energy up to 12 kilowatt per person has been noticed.
4. Recommendations
According to the conclusion, one of the most suitable recommendation includes
maximising the rate of pay in the Northern territory thereby, attracting experienced

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agents and maintenance contractors. Additionally, in order to increase the profit margin, a
warehouse needs to be opened nearby the head office.

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