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 commodity prices, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, geopolitical disruptions, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, wage bills are increasing,
increasing energy prices, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , 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 -
Organizational Resilience of Bullying Workplace
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Bullying Workplace does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Digital Transformation in Leadership & Managing People segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Bullying Workplace digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Bullying Workplace has successfully integrated the four key components of digital transformation – digital integration in processes, digital integration in marketing and customer relationship management, digital integration into the value chain, and using technology to explore new products and market opportunities.
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.
Ability to lead change in Leadership & Managing People field
– Bullying Workplace is one of the leading players in its industry. Over the years it has not only transformed the business landscape in its segment but also across the whole industry. The ability to lead change has enabled Bullying Workplace in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Bullying Workplace in the sector have low bargaining power. Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Bullying Workplace to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
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.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Leadership & Managing People industry
– Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Bullying Workplace to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Bullying Workplace to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
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.
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.
Learning organization
- Bullying Workplace is a learning organization. It has inculcated three key characters of learning organization in its processes and operations – exploration, creativity, and expansiveness. The work place at Bullying Workplace is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
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 -
Products dominated business model
– Even though Bullying Workplace has some of the most successful products in the industry, this business model has made each new product launch extremely critical for continuous financial growth of the organization. firm in the HBR case study - Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
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.
High dependence on existing supply chain
– The disruption in the global supply chains because of the Covid-19 pandemic and blockage of the Suez Canal illustrated the fragile nature of Bullying Workplace supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Bullying Workplace vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
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.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying, is just above the industry average. Bullying Workplace needs to redesign the compensation structure and incentives to increase the revenue per employees. Some of the steps that it can take are – hiring more specialists on project basis, etc.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, Bullying Workplace needs to come up with a strategy to reduce the workers concern regarding automation. Without a clear strategy, it could lead to disruption and uncertainty within the organization.
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.
Lack of clear differentiation of Bullying Workplace products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Bullying Workplace needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying, in the dynamic environment Bullying Workplace has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Bullying Workplace has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
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.
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 -
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.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Bullying Workplace is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying case study suggests that firm can utilize new technology to build more coordinated teams and streamline operations and communications using tools such as CAD, Zoom, 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Bullying Workplace to conduct training and development for its employees across the world. This will result in not only reducing the cost of training but also help employees in different part of the world to integrate with the headquarter work culture, ethos, and standards.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Bullying Workplace can leverage digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the production process, customer analytics to get better insights into consumer behavior, realtime digital dashboards to get better sales tracking, logistics and transportation, product tracking, etc.
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.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Bullying Workplace can still utilize the low interest rates to borrow money for capital investment. Secondly it can also use the increase of government spending in infrastructure projects to get new business.
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.
Buying journey improvements
– Bullying Workplace can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Eating Their Cake And Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources As The Main Ingredient To Workplace Bullying suggest that firm can provide automated chats to help consumers solve their own problems, provide online suggestions to get maximum out of the products and services, and help consumers to build a community where they can interact with each other to develop new features and uses.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Bullying Workplace can make experimentation a productive activity and build a culture of innovation using approaches such as – mining transaction data, A/B testing of websites and selling platforms, engaging potential customers over various needs, and building on small ideas in the Leadership & Managing People segment.
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.
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 -
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Bullying Workplace demand
– There is a high probability of declining consumer confidence, given – high inflammation rate, rise of gig economy, lower job stability, increasing cost of living, higher interest rates, and aging demography. All the factors contribute to people saving higher rate of their income, resulting in lower consumer demand in the industry and other sectors.
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.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Bullying Workplace is facing in Leadership & Managing People sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
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.
New competition
– After the dotcom bust of 2001, financial crisis of 2008-09, the business formation in US economy had declined. But in 2020 alone, there are more than 1.5 million new business applications in United States. This can lead to greater competition for Bullying Workplace in the Leadership & Managing People sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
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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