When formulating sustainable strategies, it is important to understand the organisation’s work environment. WCPS failed to conduct an exhaustive internal and extern study that would have allowed them to assess how they could adapt to changing environmental conditions and volatility. The school did not conduct market research, despite the necessary adjustments. This would have enabled it to create a generic strategy that could be used to increase its competitiveness. The paper will evaluate WCPS based in part on the following: its organizational culture, open system, closure procedure and innovation. Also, it will examine how technology impacts stakeholders’ administrative closure decisions. Finally, four management positions are included.
A macroenvironment is a combination of political, technical, and social variables that affects how an enterprise functions. It is important to understand how macroenvironmental factors affect how a company functions in order to achieve sustainability in the face uncertainty and unpredictability. (Kennedy. 2020). An organization’s external environment is composed of demands from the outside and other influences. Because external forces are outside of their control, organizations have no way to manage the environment. Organs have access to open systems, which are external structures that allow them to receive input. These systems include the goals, assessments, evaluations as well as outputs. Institutions use them to anticipate, study and predict possible changes.
A healthy open system provides continuous feedback between the institution’s systems and the macroenvironment, ensuring that the internal systems are properly adjusted in order to reach strategic goals. Poor open systems at WCPS hinder its ability to adapt and learn from large-scale changes in the environment. It relied too heavily on past quality-academic performance statistics that failed to recognize the need of parents for academic consistency. The ubiquity and impact of Covid-19 led to the development in e-learning. This created the demand for hybrid solutions. The WCPS used closed system tools, such as PESTEL, SWOT and Porter’s five force analysis, to assess external changes and trends. SWOT analysis could help the school identify potential threats and opportunities, as well as determine how to protect itself (Kennedy 2020). A thorough stakeholder analysis could have enabled the school to determine the concerns and needs of both its internal and outside stakeholders. For example, they would have been able to engage with the government before expanding to a new area to help them understand why their strategy was less feasible.
The parents, community leaders, and others at the bedside could help them understand their market and discuss how to make the institution last. But, Dees, 2019, stated that the corporation had a reactive attitude to stakeholder participation, treating them as an afterthought.