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Strategic Management

Introduction

Steve Prestwick had attended a committee meeting and was assigned to help staff the facility for Singapore R&D centre project. Steve has to put together a team with all the experts needed to get the new facility up and running smoothly for the first two years.

Steve faced various problems like who has the right skill for the job, rejection for the assignment from the best engineer in the company and the lack of competent staff who was willing to relocate to Singapore. He also needed technicians who could set up for the facility. Unfortunately, the US technicians he had talked to was not interested in such an assignment. Steve thought a European perspective might be useful but he didn't even have records on possible candidates from other overseas offices.

Therefore this paper aims to identify the main issues that Steve is facing and a plan to solve the problems.

Issues/Problems

1. Goal Setting and Time management

Steve does not seem to have a plan as to how to get the project going. He has a lot of things in his mind but did not organize properly as to which to do first and how should it be done. He did not have sufficient resources and information as to how to get people to be interested in the project or how to get overseas candidates to be in the team. Steve may think of questions such as "I feel overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to do? I face a constant barrage of looming deadlines? And did I sometimes just forget to do something important, so that people have to chase me to get work done?

2. Issues in staff

Steve has difficulty to retain and persuade employees to work with him in the project. He did not motivate them into doing the project nor explain the importance of their existence into making the project a success.
He was unable to convince US engineers to participate in the project. When the engineers do not seem interested in the project, Steve does not try to make enthusiasm into selling his company...