Assessment 3: Strategic Implementation and Leadership at Starbucks

This presentation analyzes the strategic management and leadership of Starbucks, focusing on the implementation of its strategies. The analysis begins by identifying key leadership characteristics, including cross-cultural applicability, team effectiveness, and servant leadership, referencing Howard Schultz's leadership style. It then evaluates the implementation of these strategies, considering factors like capabilities, systems, structure, culture, and change management within the organization. The presentation assesses the success of the implementation, identifies key issues, and provides recommendations for improvement. The organizational culture of Starbucks is examined, highlighting its impact on employees and governance, including the importance of CSR activities and shareholder engagement. References are provided to support the findings. This assignment is a group presentation on strategic implementation at Starbucks.

Strategic
Management

Organisational culture of
Starbucks
 While identifying leadership of Starbucks, it is seen
that it creates an appropriate organisational culture.
 Characteristics related to leadership includes the
application of Cross cultural applicability, team
effectiveness, collaborative, trust and motivation.
 Starbucks corporate culture includes servant
leadership, collaboration, openness, diversity,
relationship driven environment.
(Source: Dimensionlux,
2018)

Organisational culture
 The culture has high influence on the employees in
creating the mind-set on work mode and grow higher
than expected.
 Starbucks corporation translates culture as first
employee approach.
 The company pays higher importance to support
employees so that they can grow.
 It has several factors including training, development,
recruitment, selection, compensation, HRM, and
benefits. (Source: Tutorial point, 201
8)

Starbuck`s governance
 In order to ensure effective governance, it is seen that
leadership can be directed through policies and
strategic direction.
 Governance has the ability to facilitate corporate legal
structure by defining company`s culture.
 Three pillars of the corporate governance will include
security, transparency, and accountability.
(Source: Tutorial point, 2018)

Starbuck`s governance
 Starbucks has to come up with analyses of the financial
performance and it faces several challenges in the economy
 The company needs high level of CSR activities, level of ethics,
and engagement of the shareholders with the inception to
become the largest coffee organisation.

References
 Your training edge, (2018) Reasons
why every business needs a good leadership. Retrieved from: htt
ps://www.yourtrainingedge.com/reasons-why-every-business-nee
ds-a-good-leadership
/
 Tutorial point, (2018) Organizational
Culture and HR Practices. Retrieved from: https://
www.tutorialspoint.com/human_resource_management/human_re
source_management_organizational_culture.htm
 Dimensionlux, (2018). Characteristics
of Organizational Culture. Retrieved from:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_organizational-behavior-v1.1/s
19-03-characteristics-of-organizatio.html