MGMT20144: Business Case Analysis of Oxfam Australia's Management

This essay provides a comprehensive business case analysis of Oxfam Australia, examining its business and governance structures, and the environmental factors influencing its performance and decision-making. The analysis explores the company's business practices, including campaigning, emergency responses, and policy research, highlighting the key functional areas and challenges faced by the organization. The report also delves into the risks Oxfam Australia confronts, such as reliance on donations and maintaining public trust. Furthermore, the essay provides an overview of the company's governance structure, including the roles of the board of directors and various committees. Overall, the document offers a detailed insight into Oxfam Australia's operations, challenges, and strategic approaches in the context of management and business.

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MGMT20144 MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS CONTEXT
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7/31/2019
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Oxfam Australia
Managing an organization could be challenging, due to a dynamic environment in which a
company exist and conduct business. Various internal and external factors are responsible for
effective management in an organization (Ramayah & Kurnia, 2015). For instance, the
governance structure and business structure of a company are one of the factors; moreover, there
are various environmental factors that will be discussed considering an organizational case in the
essay, which will influence the decision-making and performance of the company. In addition to
this, the purpose of the report is to analyses risk integrated along with the conduct of business.
Oxfam Australia is one of the non-for profit organization, it is an Australian company working
upon community based development and aid organization. It is a subsidiary company of Oxfam
International which includes long-term development projects that consider campaign and
emergency responding in order to enhance disadvantaged people‘s lives across the globe. There
is a major objective is to provide improved social service excess to disadvantaged people, Equal
rights, safety from Disaster and conflict and affective voice in decision-making. Considering the
financial investment in the company as it is a non-for-profit company it is using 73% of funds
from a donation, around 11% for Administration and 16 people are usually used for promotion
and fundraising. It has been identified that in the emergency scenario the company is directly
using 85% of funds in response to the emergency purpose (oxfam, home).
Considering the business structure and governance structure of the company that is Oxfam
Australia the board of directors of the company are responsible for overall compliance and
performance and also provide strategic direction to their employs that are to provide a reason to
perform, through effective leadership and effective governance (Raja & Palanichamy, 2015). The

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Constitution of Oxfam Australia establishes a governance structure where the business control
and management and the organizational affairs are vested through the board of directors of the
company. It has been all identified that according to the governance structure the board are
responsible for monitoring overall performance of the organization, setting division and
providing direction to the organization through implementation of policies, monitoring and
approving the budget for the year while also ensuring the that the risk has been managed and
overall financial are in well-being condition. Moreover ensuring an effective relationship with
the company stakeholders, ensuring of the organizational needs of the statutory requirement and
regulatory requirements are met or not are also part of the responsibility of the board (Heap &
Singh, 2016).
The governance committee of Oxfam Australia are responsible for providing assistance to the
board of directors in order to increase performance level, providing training and development of
each director, board and committees overall, this would also include overseeing the orientation
of the organization. (oxfam, our-board, 2019). Finance, Risk and Audit Committee, Public
Engagement Committee, Governance Committee, Remuneration Committee, and Remuneration
Committee are the major committees of structure and composition of Oxfam Australia (Kumar &
Bhardwaj, 2018).
The environment in which the company conducts business consist of various factors that
influence a company’s performance and decision-making. For Oxfam Australia, one of the
environmental factors that have made it affect the company performance and decision-making is
the political factors of the nation. Since the company is, a charitable organization that is a non-
profit earning organization the political support from the nation is quite high, not only in case of
Australia but in case of other nations like the United Kingdom as well (Earl, 2016). Moreover,

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the company can also gain donation from political partnership or the government support in
order to healthy known develop individuals. Another factor of the external environment that is
legal factor has impacted the decision making, for instance, the decision-making related to
beaches in the nation have influenced the organizational decision-making that is to pay workers
with the minimum amount of wages which could impact the revenue of the company and the
profit earning of the company (Gatti, Aquilani, Ruggieri, & Silvestri, 2017). Social factors are
the third environmental factors that are influencing the performance of the company, nation
ethics her place vital role. This may include changing the attitude of individuals regarding the
woman, men in a society that could have been directed society to words a better environment,
and the organization has the opportunity to form again increase donation amount for the
betterment of society and organization as well. Therefore it can be said that if the social factors
are in favour of an increase in humanity, culture value among people in Australia will lead to
increase in a donation amount that is the increasing their efficiency of performance of the
organization. However on the contrary legal factors may lead to lower performance if you Shensi
of the company by increasing the employee wages and abide by other legal rules in Australia
(Bottani & Galli, 2017).
The three major risk and challenges that Oxfam Australia face includes Oxfam Australia runs on
the charity basis that is the charitable organization is looking forward to what the donation
amount by people in order to run the business and help did not develop individuals. This turns
out to be one of the major risks that the company is facing and has been facing since the
beginning. The way the company has managed with more than thousand partner organization,
more than 22,000 volunteers and with 5000 per staff, in 94 nations across the globe seems to be a
major challenge and risk for the company.

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Oxfam Australia another major risk is losing trust among people, which is one of the major
necessity for the company as they are sustained because of the donation amount uncharitable
amount by people. In a scenario where the trust has not been billed among people, they will not
be investing in the company as they would believe that the company is not using their funds
appropriately as claimed (oxfam, facing-risk-options-and-challenges-ensuring-climatedisaster-
risk-finance-and-insurance, 2019).
The charitable organization like of Oxfam Australia are working to words the solution to wicked
problems which are very complex in nature like social injustice, poverty that an organization are
not able to address alone and could be impossible to solve. Moreover, there are various chances
of emergency with the company might face financial risk and inability to a short delivery for
poor people. For example, the latest issue considered by the company to work upon that is buried
treasure. According to this campaign, the company found out that various MNCs are not paying
the tax fairly which has increased the difference between poor and rich that is making rich more
richer and poorer. However, it has been observed that fighting against such problems are
complex and include large risk as the opening parties are strong enough to fight for themselves
(oxfam, buried-treasure-tax-avoidance, 2019).
The major business practice is followed by Oxfam Australia includes campaigning that includes
raising awareness among the public regarding the poverty cause and encourage individuals to
take their personal actions to words this issue. Another practice includes emergencies that are the
most important practice conducted by the company to deliver life-saving assistance immediately
to individuals who are victims by conflict or natural disasters. Policy research is another business
practice conducted which includes communicating with authority by the outcome of the analysis
and research and experience of the business partners, which has also been discussed previously

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(oxfam, assessing-our-performance, 2019). Moreover, Advocacy advisor of Oxfam Australia is
working towards change in public practice and policies through an approach that will have a
positive influence over poor individual‘s life. This includes various methods including media
work, changing public attitudes, lobbying, and popular campaigning. Program implementation is
another key part of practices of business Oxfam Australia that includes regional staff work
working to words the program policy advisers in order to execute and implement the programs in
Australia and other nations. Local partners and staff work of the program are responsible for this
implementation and evaluation for various initiatives taken by the company that includes
offering a large number of support through capacity building and training and also financial
support is being provided.
The key functional areas identified in Oxfam Australia includes departments like sales and
marketing, administration, distribution, customer service, human resource, Finance, production,
ICT, research and development. Moreover, global ambassadors are the key Partners in the
functional areas that are performing campaign across the globe on behalf of the company. Some
of the global ambassadors of the company include Annie Lennox, Coldplay, Colin firth and
many more being part of functional departments (Ryan & Danesh, 2017).
From the discussion, it can be concluded that Oxfam Australia is one of the non-for profit
organization, it is an Australian company working upon community based development and aid
organization. It has been identified that in the emergency scenario the company is directly using
85% of funds in response to an emergency purpose. Oxfam Australia establishes a governance
structure where the business control, management, and organizational affairs are vested through
the board of directors of the company. The governance committee of Oxfam Australia is
responsible for providing assistance to the board of directors in order to increase performance

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level. The major business practice is followed by Oxfam Australia includes campaigning,
emergencies, Policy Research, and Advocacy advisor.

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