Challenges of Micro Environment

• Challenges of Micro

  • Difficult Employees
  • Lack of Vision and Mission
  • Lack of Adequate Management Skills
  • Unions
  • Strikes and Go-Slows
  • Skill shortage among employees
• Difficult Employees

  • No support for Vision/ negative attitude> Conflict
  • Need supervision
  • Harm business image
  • Lazy> delays, decrease in efficiency
• Lack of Vision and Mission

  • Different goals> leads to conflict
  • hamper meaningful guidance and leadership to employees
  • business will lack focus/direction and single long term objective.
• Lack of Adequate Management Skills

  • Not able to lead, direct, control
  • Waste of resources
  • Bad communication
  • business not achieving its objectives
  • Ineffective management can affect the productivity and profitability of a business
• Unions

  • Protect interest and rights of employees> impossible demands
  • create tension between management and employees
  • Businesses may not be able to meet the demands of the trade unions
• Strikes and Go-Slows

  • affect the business negatively as it cannot meet its expected units of production
  • Employees may not report to work due to a complete shutdown strike.
  • Employees may report to work but work slowly so that the business cannot meet its targets due to go slows
• Skill Shortages among employees

  • difficult to find suitable employees with skills and experience.
  • employing workers who are not qualified to do the job
  • Unqualified employees may contribute to bad decision making