Identifying and

understanding
organizational challenges

BY: GROUP 2 1
What Is an Organisation ?
By Prof. Chester I Barnard :-
“organisation is a system of co-operative
activities of two or more persons”

BY: GROUP 2 2
UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATION
CHALLENGES

Heart of successful strategic plans.

Facing Challenges in or outside the organisational
boundaries
Help to assess probability of achieving goals
Removing the road block
Pack of hidden opportunities
Why organizational changes occur?
organization changes occur because of situational
fluctuations in the environmental demands (competition,
grow & develop)

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Challenges at the work place
Organizational Level
• Productivity
• Developing Effective Employees
• Global Competition
• technology

Group Level

• Working With Others

• Workforce Diversity Workplace

Individual Level
• Job Satisfaction
• Empowerment
• Behaving Ethically
Responding to Globalization
Increased foreign assignments
Overseeing movement of jobs to countries with
low-cost labor
Coping with anti-capitalism backlash
Globalization is simply Princess Diana’s death… Why?
 An English princes…..
 with an Egyptian boyfriend…..
 crashes in a French tunnel…..
 driving a German car……
 with a Dutch engine……
 driven by a Belgian who was drunk…..
 on Scottish whisky…..
 followed closely by Italian Paparazzi……
 on Japanese motorcycles……
 treated by an American doctor……
 using Brazilian medicines…..
 assisted by a loving Filipina nurse
and…….
 This message was forwarded  by a Spanish….
 using American Bill Gates’s technology……
 and you’re probably reading this on your computer that uses
Taiwanese chips….
 and a Korean monitor….
 assembled by Bangladeshi workers…..
 in a Singapore plant…..
 transported by Indian truck drivers…..
 hijacked by Indonesians......
 unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen.....
 and trucked to you by Mexican illegals…
Managing Workforce Diversity

Embracing diversity
Working with people from different cultures
Demographic changes 
Women in the Workplace
Organizational Restructuring
Legislation
Layers of Diversity
Why U.S. Internet Giants Failed
Badly In China?
Internet Giants eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and Google failed
badly in China while, their Chinese competitors achieved
great successes by going the completely opposite way.
Reasons for failure of U.S internet giants
in China
• Most employees were people from Hong Kong and
TaiWan and not from China
• Focused only on the white collar middle class market
• American websites are afraid of negative news
• American websites always have a rigid long term plan
• Care more about the professional ethics and the brand
image
Challenges faced by
• Singur Controversy - 2007
• 997 acres had been
allotted to Tata Motors for
building the Nano
• Faced opposition from a
political party
• Pulled out of Singur for the
security of there officers
• WestBengal’s loss turned
out to be Gujarat’s gain.
“The giver of all good things in life”
Its founder R Subramaniam is a IIT Chennai and
IIM Ahmedabad alumnus
Theme -    ’’ Why pay more when you can get it for less
at Subhiksha ’’
Expansion Timeline of
Reasons for failure of
Expanding the number of stores rapidly without
sufficient funds in hand
Expansion of Stores without adequate system control
and IT Support
Government Intervention
Lack of strong HR policy and Staff
Thank You