BUS101: Business Case Analysis of Oxfam Australia's Strategies

This case study analyzes Oxfam Australia, a non-profit organization focused on community development and aid. It examines the company's structure, including its board of directors and governance, and explores both internal and external factors influencing its growth, such as social and political factors, as well as legal considerations like minimum wages. The analysis identifies key risks, including the loss of public trust and the challenges of addressing complex issues like poverty and social injustice. Furthermore, the study discusses Oxfam's current policies, practices, and departments, including campaigning, emergency response, and advocacy, while also highlighting the company's partnerships and the roles of global ambassadors. In conclusion, the case study provides an overview of Oxfam Australia's operations, challenges, and strategic approaches in the competitive market.

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Oxfam provides technical support and grants to the other local companies around the
world. With the help of the associates they sustenance long term answers that help the poor
societies grow and they also provide food, land and water access to the poor people. They
also help the poor to work in a decent manner along with fair wages. Local to the global,
Oxfam customs support to challenge the schemes, rules and performs that retain people
surrounded in poverty. The company takes on disparity, gender impartiality climate justice,
and inequities in the food chain, and the company sponsor for the basic human privileges and
self-respect of stayers of battles and disasters. The company challenges governments,
multinational businesses, international administrations, and other performers to use their
massive control and inspire to expand the lives of deprived and vulnerable people. Oxfam
works with the local people to principal humanitarian retorts that deliver instant relief during
disasters and conflicts and in order to build the resilience in contradiction of future threats. In
this essay, the environment of Oxfam Australia is discussed. There are variously internal and
external factors that impact the company and its decision making, this essay mainly discusses
the risks faced by the business in the market (Oxfam, 2019).
Oxfam is an Australian company which is a non for profit organization and is based
on community development and aid and it is also a member of Oxfam international. The
work of Oxfam Australia comprises various long term growth schemes which respond to the
crises and the campaigns in order to recover the survives of people who are disadvantaged
around the globe (Raja, & Palanichamy, 2015). This company helps the disadvantaged people
to improve their access to the social service, have a voice in decision making, equivalent
rights and status and care from a disaster and a conflict (Oxfam, 2019). The main actions of
Oxfam are funding mainly in donations of the community. The advocacy program that it uses
donates 73% of the fund. Oxfam Australia’s work has reached 4.64 million people and in
around 28 nations and this was complete possible by the provision of around 310000

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campaigners and donors. Oxfam is an association of 20 self-governing charitable
administrations intent on the extenuation of global poverty, founded in the year 1942 and is
led by Oxfam International. It is a major non-profit group with a widespread collection of
processes. Winnie Byanyima has been the decision-making director of Oxfam since 2013
The business and governance structure of the company Oxfam includes the board of
directors for the company and it responsible all the performance and they also help in taking
strategic decisions and also helps in directing the employees in performing well. The board of
directors also help in providing good leadership and governance and them manager the
problems and issues of the organization. Apart from this the board of directors make sure
that there is a good relationship among the customers and the company and that the company
is able to reach the needs and wants of the customer the company also focuses of the good
performance of the organization and manages all the risks in the company (Nawaz, Lal,
Raza, & House, 2010).
There are variously internal and external factors that influence the growth of Oxfam,
the first factor is the social factor and this creates a problem for the company, some of the
main features of social factors are ethics. This factor includes changing the behavior of
people related to women and men in society (Oxfam, 2019). The aim of the company is to
remove inequality from society and the organization has an advantage from this as it can
increase the amount of donation for the betterment of the society and the organization as well
and it can be seen that the social factors are in the favor of the company, another factor is the
political factor of the country that affects the good performance of the company. The
company is a non for profit organization and that is the reason they support it get from the
country is very high.

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The company can get donations from various partnerships of government and political
support to develop society and various individuals. Apart from these, there are a lot of legal
factors that impact the company which is paying the workers with minimum wages and this
can have a very high impact on the revenue and productivity of the company. The legal factor
has affected the company as well as its decision making. After the analysis it can be seen that
the social factors of are very helpful for the company as they help in betterment and
development of the society but the legal factors can impact the company as due to this the
performance and productivity of the company can suffer, it can be only solved by proving the
employees with an increase in the wages (Gatti, Aquilani, Ruggieri, & Silvestri, 2017).
There are various risks to the company as well, one of the main risks of the company
is that people are losing trust in the company, and in order to succeed it is important to build
trust of people as the company works with the help of donations which are provided by the
people, with no trust over the organization , the people will stop donating amount to the
company as people nowadays believe that the donations are not used for the right purpose
and their money is being misused, apart from this, the company is always looking forward
towards donations from the people in order to make the business work and this is one of a
major drawback and risk as the company should mainly focus on the development of the
society rather than just earning money through donations, the third risk is that the company
Oxfam Australia is working towards things like injustice socially and poverty which is
difficult to solve (Pelling, 2011).
They should focus on problems that can be solved easily and does not need much
financial support. One of the recent issues that the company is focusing on is that nowadays
the MNC’s are not paying very much of their attention on paying the taxes fairly and this
thing has affected the difference between poor and rich. But fighting for these kinds of issues

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can be problematic and can cause issues for the company as the company will need much
finance and string power to fight for such issues (Earl, 2016).
The current policies and practices Oxfam includes leading the NGO with a reputation
which is worldwide, it wants to deliver aid and development work. The main purpose of the
company is to work for other people and helps society from poverty and sufferings. Oxfam
aims to share its policy, program and the researching order to learn and contribute debates
towards the human and development sector. Apart from this Oxfam focuses on practices that
include things like campaigning as this thing helps in raising awareness in the society
regarding the issues like poverty.
The company also provides various life-saving assistance to the people who suffer
due to natural disasters and conflicts. Oxfam also includes various department of faction such
as sales, marketing, customer service, human resource, production, research, and
development. The main partners of the company are the global ambassadors who help in
performing campaign around the globe. The main global ambassadors of the company are
Annie Lennox, Coldplay and Colin firth.
The company mainly works for the change in practices of the public by approaches
that give positive influence to the people. All of these things include a lot of methods which
are work, changing the public attitude and popular campaigns. The implementations of the
program are some of the other practices of Oxfam Australia as it includes things like staff
work who work towards the policy of the program Local partners and the staff work of the
program are accountable for this implementation and assessment for various initiatives taken
by Oxfam Australia that comprises of donating a large number of provision over capacity
structure and exercise and also financial sustenance is being provided (Oxfam, 2019).

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Through the discussion, it can be concluded that Oxfam is an Australian company
which is a non for profit organization and is based on community development and aid and it
is also an associate of Oxfam international. The work of Oxfam Australia comprises various
long term growth projects which respond to the tragedies and the campaigns in order to
improve the survives of people who are disadvantaged around the world. Oxfam provides
technical support and grants to the other local companies around the globe. With the help of
the partners they sustenance long term solutions that aid the poor groups grow and they also
provide food, land and water access to the poor people. The board members are responsible
for the structure of the company that includes control, management and organization affairs.
The board of directors are responsible for the productivity and performance of the company,
there are various business practices as well that helps the company to grow and perform
better like campaigning, emergencies, Policy Research, and Advocacy advisor. Apart from
this the company also faces various risks which need to improve or worked on in order to be
successful in the competitive market

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