Culture Preferences & Competences

Work culture preferences and competencies

Odette A. Aquino Pérez

University of Phoenix

Management MGT/521

August 28, 2013

Prof. Elsie Jiménez

Work culture preferences and competencies

After finish the work culture preferences I was described as a person who prefer a well resourced, a teamwork centered and high powered workplace. In terms of developing strategic and operational plans knowing the traits of the work culture I prefer help me to be proactive at the moment of determine the milestone schedule, establish deadlines, be a team player and maintain a cooperative and sharing atmosphere which finally will determine the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the product.

According the Encyclopedia of Management (2013) “SWOT is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and was developed by Ken Andrews in the early 1970s. SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool that helps an organization match its internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats. SWOT analysis is important and useful in creating and executing the organization’s mission statement. Often the best strategies for accomplishing the organization’s mission are revealed through the SWOT analysis. The best strategies are those that take advantage of strengths and opportunities, offset threats, and improve weaknesses”.

In conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis are essential functional related competence skills which enable the company to invest its services or products with unique functionality, which invest the product with distinctive customer benefits. (Gilgeous,V and Parveen,K, 2001). Also, integrity related competences skills that allow a company to do things much more quickly, with greater flexibility or with a higher caliber of reliability than competitors. Last, but not least, market access competencies skill that help place a firm in close proximity to its customers

In the competencies exercise...