Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying
This article examines workplace bullying from a personal resources perspective. As workplace bullying emerges in unsupportive and stressful work environments, the threat of personal resource loss triggers the low cost, high reward resource-seeking behaviors that are typically reported as indicative of bullies in the workplace bullying research. Herein, we propose that these resource-seeking bullying behaviors allow bullies to create reinforcing resource gain cycles for them, but also create reinforcing resource loss cycles for targets and bystanders of bullying. As a potential remedy, we discuss recommendations for organizations to reduce the occurrence of workplace bullying.
Authors :: Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, Kristen Shanine
Swot Analysis of "Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying" written by Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, Kristen Shanine includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Bullying Workplace facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Motivating people, Personnel policies, Strategic planning and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying casestudy better are - – increasing household debt because of falling income levels, wage bills are increasing, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models,
competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Bullying Workplace, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Bullying Workplace operates in.
According to Harvard Business Review, 75% of the managers use SWOT analysis for various purposes such as – evaluating current scenario, strategic planning, new venture feasibility, personal growth goals, new market entry, Go To market strategies, portfolio management and strategic trade-off assessment, organizational restructuring, etc.
SWOT Objectives / Importance of SWOT Analysis and SWOT Matrix
SWOT analysis of Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Bullying Workplace
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Leadership & Managing People field.
4. Making a Leadership & Managing People topic specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Bullying Workplace
Strengths Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Bullying Workplace in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying Harvard Business Review case study are -
Successful track record of launching new products
– Bullying Workplace has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Bullying Workplace has effective processes in place that helps in exploring new product needs, doing quick pilot testing, and then launching the products quickly using its extensive distribution network.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Bullying Workplace has highly efficient outsourcing and offshoring strategy. It has resulted in greater operational flexibility and bringing down the costs in highly price sensitive segment. Secondly the value chain collaborators of the firm in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Diverse revenue streams
– Bullying Workplace is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying case study a diverse revenue stream that has helped it to survive disruptions such as global pandemic in Covid-19, financial disruption of 2008, and supply chain disruption of 2021.
Innovation driven organization
– Bullying Workplace is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Bullying Workplace are driving operational speed, building greater agility, and keeping the organization nimble to compete with new competitors. It helps are organization to ideate new ideas, and execute them swiftly in the marketplace.
Analytics focus
– Bullying Workplace is putting a lot of focus on utilizing the power of analytics in business decision making. This has put it among the leading players in the industry. The technology infrastructure suggested by Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, Kristen Shanine can also help it to harness the power of analytics for – marketing optimization, demand forecasting, customer relationship management, inventory management, information sharing across the value chain etc.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Bullying Workplace has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in, as mentioned in case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Bullying Workplace in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying Harvard Business Review case study comprises – understanding the underlying the factors in the industry, building diversified operations across different geographies so that disruption in one part of the world doesn’t impact the overall performance of the firm, and integrating the various business operations and processes through its digital transformation drive.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Bullying Workplace has built up over years in its products and services combo offer has resulted in high retention of customers, lower marketing costs, and greater ability of the firm to focus on its customers.
High brand equity
– Bullying Workplace has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Bullying Workplace to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Bullying Workplace is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Weaknesses Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying are -
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Bullying Workplace, firm in the HBR case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying that the firm needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. Sales professionals in the industry have deep experience in developing customer relationships. Marketing department in the case Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Bullying Workplace is planning to shift buying processes online.
Need for greater diversity
– Bullying Workplace has taken concrete steps on diversity, equity, and inclusion. But the efforts so far has resulted in limited success. It needs to expand the recruitment and selection process to hire more people from the minorities and underprivileged background.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Bullying Workplace has borrowed money from the capital market at higher rates. It needs to restructure the interest payment and costs so that it can compete better and improve profitability.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Bullying Workplace is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Leadership & Managing People segment. Bullying Workplace needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Bullying Workplace to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Bullying Workplace has a very deliberative decision making approach. This approach has resulted in prudent decisions, but it has also resulted in missing opportunities in the industry over the last five years. Bullying Workplace even though has strong showing on digital transformation primary two stages, it has struggled to capitalize the power of digital transformation in marketing efforts and new venture efforts.
High bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, Kristen Shanine suggests that, Bullying Workplace is facing high bargaining power of the channel partners. So far it has not able to streamline the operations to reduce the bargaining power of the value chain partners in the industry.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying HBR case study still accounts for major business revenue. This dependence on star products in has resulted into insufficient focus on developing new products, even though Bullying Workplace has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying, it seems that the employees of Bullying Workplace don’t have comprehensive understanding of the firm’s strategy. This is reflected in number of promotional campaigns over the last few years that had mixed messaging and competing priorities. Some of the strategic activities and services promoted in the promotional campaigns were not consistent with the organization’s strategy.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Bullying Workplace has a high cash cycle compare to other players in the industry. It needs to shorten the cash cycle by 12% to be more competitive in the marketplace, reduce inventory costs, and be more profitable.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Bullying Workplace is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
Opportunities Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities highlighted in the Harvard Business Review case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying are -
Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions
– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for Bullying Workplace in the consumer business. Now Bullying Workplace can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Developing new processes and practices
– Bullying Workplace can develop new processes and procedures in Leadership & Managing People industry using technology such as automation using artificial intelligence, real time transportation and products tracking, 3D modeling for concept development and new products pilot testing etc.
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in Leadership & Managing People industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. Bullying Workplace can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Bullying Workplace in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Leadership & Managing People segment, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Bullying Workplace has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Bullying Workplace to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying case study. Bullying Workplace can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Bullying Workplace can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Bullying Workplace operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Leadership & Managing People sector.
Manufacturing automation
– Bullying Workplace can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Leadership & Managing People segment. It can use CAD and 3D printing to build a quick prototype and pilot testing products. It can leverage automation using machine learning and artificial intelligence to do faster production at lowers costs, and it can leverage the growth in satellite and tracking technologies to improve inventory management, transportation, and shipping.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Bullying Workplace has spent a significant amount of money and effort to integrate analytics and machine learning into its operations in the sector. This continuous investment in analytics has enabled, as illustrated in the Harvard case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Bullying Workplace to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Bullying Workplace can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Loyalty marketing
– Bullying Workplace has focused on building a highly responsive customer relationship management platform. This platform is built on in-house data and driven by analytics and artificial intelligence. The customer analytics can help the organization to fine tune its loyalty marketing efforts, increase the wallet share of the organization, reduce wastage on mainstream advertising spending, build better pricing strategies using personalization, etc.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Bullying Workplace to expand its talent hiring zone. According to McKinsey Global Institute, 20% of the high end workforce in fields such as finance, information technology, can continously work from remote local post Covid-19. This presents a really great opportunity for Bullying Workplace to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19
– Consumer behavior has changed in the Leadership & Managing People industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. Bullying Workplace can take advantage of these changes in consumer behavior to build a far more efficient business model. For example consumer regular ordering of products can reduce both last mile delivery costs and market penetration costs. Bullying Workplace can further use this consumer data to build better customer loyalty, provide better products and service collection, and improve the value proposition in inflationary times.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Bullying Workplace to increase its market reach. Bullying Workplace will be able to reach out to new customers. Secondly 5G will also provide technology framework to build new tools and products that can help more immersive consumer experience and faster consumer journey.
Threats Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying are -
Increasing wage structure of Bullying Workplace
– Post Covid-19 there is a sharp increase in the wages especially in the jobs that require interaction with people. The increasing wages can put downward pressure on the margins of Bullying Workplace.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Bullying Workplace can face lack of demand in the market place because of Fed actions to reduce inflation. This can lead to sluggish growth in the economy, lower demands, lower investments, higher borrowing costs, and consolidation in the field.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying, Bullying Workplace may face longer learning curve for training and development of existing employees. This can open space for more nimble competitors in the field of Leadership & Managing People .
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Bullying Workplace in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The Leadership & Managing People industry is already at various protected from local competition in China, with the rise of trade war the protection levels may go up. This presents a clear threat of current business model in Chinese market.
High level of anxiety and lack of motivation
– the Great Resignation in United States is the sign of broader dissatisfaction among the workforce in United States. Bullying Workplace needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Bullying Workplace can face downward pressure on margins from increasing competition from international players. The international players have stable revenue in their home market and can use those resources to penetrate prominent markets illustrated in HBR case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying .
Environmental challenges
– Bullying Workplace needs to have a robust strategy against the disruptions arising from climate change and energy requirements. EU has identified it as key priority area and spending 30% of its 880 billion Euros European post Covid-19 recovery funds on green technology. Bullying Workplace can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Bullying Workplace high dependence on third party suppliers can disrupt its processes and delivery mechanism. For example -the current troubles of car makers because of chip shortage is because the chip companies started producing chips for electronic companies rather than car manufacturers.
Regulatory challenges
– Bullying Workplace needs to prepare for regulatory challenges as consumer protection groups and other pressure groups are vigorously advocating for more regulations on big business - to reduce inequality, to create a level playing field, to product data privacy and consumer privacy, to reduce the influence of big money on democratic institutions, etc. This can lead to significant changes in the Leadership & Managing People industry regulations.
Aging population
– As the populations of most advanced economies are aging, it will lead to high social security costs, higher savings among population, and lower demand for goods and services in the economy. The household savings in US, France, UK, Germany, and Japan are growing faster than predicted because of uncertainty caused by pandemic.
Capital market disruption
– During the Covid-19, Dow Jones has touched record high. The valuations of a number of companies are way beyond their existing business model potential. This can lead to capital market correction which can put a number of suppliers, collaborators, value chain partners in great financial difficulty. It will directly impact the business of Bullying Workplace.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Bullying Workplace has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Leadership & Managing People industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Bullying Workplace needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Leadership & Managing People sector. According to Mckinsey study top managers believe that the adoption of technology in operations, communications is 20-25 times faster than what they planned in the beginning of 2019.
Instability in the European markets
– European Union markets are facing three big challenges post Covid – expanded balance sheets, Brexit related business disruption, and aggressive Russia looking to distract the existing security mechanism. Bullying Workplace will face different problems in different parts of Europe. For example it will face inflationary pressures in UK, France, and Germany, balance sheet expansion and demand challenges in Southern European countries, and geopolitical instability in the Eastern Europe.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying Template, Example
Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers in the HBR case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying needs to zero down on the relative importance of each factor mentioned in the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants.
We can provide the relative importance to each factor by assigning relative weights. Weighted SWOT analysis process is a three stage process –
First stage for doing weighted SWOT analysis of the case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying is to rank the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. This will help you to assess the most important strengths and weaknesses of the firm and which one of the strengths and weaknesses mentioned in the initial lists are marginal and can be left out.
Second stage for conducting weighted SWOT analysis of the Harvard case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying is to give probabilities to the external strategic factors thus better understanding the opportunities and threats arising out of macro environment changes and developments.
Third stage of constructing weighted SWOT analysis of Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying is to provide strategic recommendations includes – joining likelihood of external strategic factors such as opportunities and threats to the internal strategic factors – strengths and weaknesses. You should start with external factors as they will provide the direction of the overall industry. Secondly by joining probabilities with internal strategic factors can help the company not only strategic fit but also the most probably strategic trade-off that Bullying Workplace needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
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