Management and The Body Shop
In this paper I will be taking a look at basic management functions. The
approaches, and the synthesis of two views of management. I will attempt to
take an overview of culture and its effect on a company.
In today's changing global environments many companies have joined the open
trade policies, and existing foreign opportunities available to growing
companies with positive views and socially responsible attitudes.
It all sounds like a lot to cover in a short essay so I will introduce a company
that has in its short, yet very successful existence transformed through all the
levels and practices mentioned above. The company is called "The Body Shop", I
hope you have heard of it for that would make our journey through it's
development even more enjoyable.
Management is described as the process of getting activities with and through
other people. This philosophy has been so widely examined that there are
literally millions of opinions and differing views on the subject. We will only
be examining the functions of management where the basics of planning,
organizing, leading, and controlling apply to The Body Shop. In 1976 an
inexperienced Anita Roddick got tired of unsubstantiated Management and The Body
Shop
claims of the cosmetics industry that their products couldn't deliver. She
decided to make a decision that would change her life forever. Anita became a
manager of her own small business in Brighton England. Selling the natural
secrets found throughout the world; learned from extensive travel while employed
as a teacher with the U.N., she created a cottage industry of exotic personal
body care products.
Planning proved to be the first bi ...