How would you argue that the success of a business enterprise is significantly influenced by its environment?
Business enterprises cannot work in isolation. Therefore, a good understanding of the environment not only helps the manager to deal with uncertain situations, but also helps the organizations to identify and benefit from opportunities that the environment offers. The following point highlights the importance of business environment for the success of a business enterprise:
1. It enables the firm to identify opportunities and get the first mover advantage: Environment provides numerous opportunities for business success. Early identification of opportunities helps an enterprise to be the first to exploit them instead of losing them to competitors.
2. It helps the firm to identify threats and early warning signals: Threats means external environmental changes that hinder the performance of the firm. And proper awareness of the business environment helps the manager to identify the threats on time and then they can prepare themselves to meet the threats.
3. It helps in tapping useful resources: Environment is a source of various resources for running a business and it provides inputs to the business like finance, machines, raw materials, power, and water, labour etc. Every enterprise depends on the environment as a source of inputs or resources and in return the enterprise supplies outputs such as goods and services. And for that enterprise designs policies that allow it to get resources that it needs so that it can convert those resources into outputs that the environment desires.
4. It helps in coping with rapid changes: Business environment is dynamic in nature and changes are taking place at a fast pace. And to cope effectively with the changes managers must understand and examine the environment and develop suitable courses of action.
5. It helps in assisting in planning and policy formulation: Environment is a source of both opportunities and threats for the business enterprise. And its understanding and analyzing helps them to decide future course of action or training guidelines for making policies to deal with the present situation.
6. It helps in improving performance: The future of the business is bound with what is happening in the environment. And a continuous monitor to the environment helps to adopt suitable business policies and practices which not only improve the performance of the business but also continue to succeed in the market for long terms.
How would you characterize the business environment? Explain with examples, the difference between general and specific environment.
The government of India announced Demonetization of ₹ 500 and ₹ 1,000 currency notes with effect from the midnight of November 8, 2016. As a result, the existing ₹ 500 and ₹ 1,000 currency notes ceased to be legal tender from that date. New currency notes of the denomination of ₹ 500 and ₹ 2,000 were issued by Reserve Bank of India after the announcement.
This step resulted in a substantial increase in the awareness about and use of Point of Sale machines, e-wallets, digital cash and other modes of cashless transactions. Also, increased transparency in monetary transactions and disclosure led to a rise in government revenue in the form of tax collection.
a. Enumerate the dimensions of the business environment highlighted above.
b. State the features of Demonetization.
National Digital Library of India (NDL India) is a pilot project initiated by the HRD ministry. It works towards developing a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. It provides support to all academic levels including researchers, life-long learners and differently-abled learners free of cost. State the dimensions of business environment highlighted above.
Why it is important for business enterprises to understand their environment? Explain.
Briefly discuss the impact of Government policy changes on business and industry.
What economic changes were initiated by the Government under the Industrial Policy, 1991? What impact have these changes made on business and industry?
What are the essential features of:
a. Liberalisation,
b. Privatization and
c. Globalisation?
How does understanding of business environment help in improving performance of a business?
Give an example to show that a business firm operates within numerous inter related factors constituting the business environment.(Hint: example highlighting the inter relatedness of dimensions of business environment).
State the impact of demonetization on interest rates, private wealth and real estate.
How does planning provide direction?
What is meant by staffing?
Identify the network of social relationships which arises spontaneously due to interaction at work.
What is informal communication?
State the meaning of controlling.
What is meant by capital structure?v
What is meant by management?
What is a Treasury Bill?
State any two advantages of branding to marketers of goods and services?
What makes principles of management flexible?
A company wants to modify its existing product in the market due to decreasing sales. You can imagine any product about which you are familiar. What decisions/steps should each level of management take to give effect to this decision?
What are the functions of the Stock Exchange?
Explain the procedure for selection of employees.
How does planning provide direction?
In an organisation, one of the departmental manager is inflexible and once he takes a decision, he does not like to be contradicted. As a result, employees always feel they are under stress and they take least initiative and fear to express their opinions and problems before the manager. What is the problem in the way authority is being used by the manager?
Coordination is the essence of management. Do you agree? Give reasons.
Explain the Principles of Scientific management given by Taylor.
Why are internal sources of recruitment considered to be more economical?
Explain the qualities of a good leader? Do the qualities alone ensure leadership success?
Explain the relationship between planning and controlling with examples.