ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: North American Free Trade Agreement, Sam Sniderman, Starbucks

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Len Karakowsky

Document Summary

For the first case, i just wanted to jot down some ideas to help you think about the approach to answering case questions. The challenge is to systematically address the requirements of the question by accurately applying course concepts (where necessary) to the context of the case. The four internal factors that should be considered are: (1) labour relations 2) management/leadership of people, (3) strategy and (4) organizational structure. These internal factors correspond to the fundamental concepts of people, strategy and goals, and structure identified on page 6-8 of the karakowsky text. This question is asking you to relate the three internal forces (people, structure and strategy) to this case. This is a good example of the need to make assumptions. The article does not really address the internal forces per se. You are required to make any assumptions in order to explain how these three forces might influence a business such as sam"s.