Major Managerial Issue
The process of identifying a problem is one of the direct ways that can bring an organization closer towards solving a longstanding management problem . In fact, any form of problem starts from the process of identifying what needs to be solved. The objective of this paper is to discuss one major managerial issue of the Big Bear Lake Water Organization (BBLWO), which has been identified as the lack of the BBLWO’s management team’s ability to handle their own affairs, in terms of the legal, economic, environmental, social, and political aspects.
Causes
One of the possible causes of the BBLWO’s management team’s lack of ability to handle their legal, economic, environmental, social, and political affairs is the idea that there will always be government and government organizations that would supervise them and do and cover most, if not all of the jobs and responsibilities that are supposed to be assigned to them. When it comes to legal aspects for example, the BBLWO usually entrusts everything to the Association of California Water Agencies. The thing is that the ACWA is a government branch assigned to a larger and more general area and so the BBLWO’s management cannot and should not assume that ACWA would be able to focus on with the legal issues concerning the Big Bear Lake with a high level of precision and detail. Aside from the possible delays in delivering appropriate actions for some of the legal issues, it would also be possible that some legal issues would be missed out, which can of course lead to a whole new set of negative things in the Big Bear Lake area.
Effects
The BBLWO’s laxity in handling their own affairs can of course lead to mostly negative things. Never has it happened that a business administrator who is fond of ignoring vital operations of his business and entrusting them to someone else reaped positive rewards . The most likely effect of this would be the management’s missing out of possibly pertinent and important legal, economic, environmental, social, and political issues. What makes this situation even worse is the fact that the management has not only fully entrusted one aspect of its business to a generic government/non-government organization, but a whole bunch of it and so if something happens, it would either be too late to react for the problem/s to be successfully solved, or the management would not even know what hit them, both of which could of course lead to the devastation of a very promising tourism-centered business.
Challenges
One of the major challenges that the management has to overcome is the fact that the structure and the way how orders, commands, and processes are created and handled have to be remodeled in a way that the BBLWO management would not have to rely on any outside help just to manage the legal, economic, social, environmental, and political issues concerning the Big Bear Lake Water Organization. What makes this a big challenge is the amount of change that the entire management has to undergo. This would of course take a lot of time and effort. In fact, this move may lead to internal conflicts among various groups from within the organization but then again, once the BBLWO manages to pull this off, they would have been able to pull a big dilemma out of their necks and they would finally be able to stand on their own.
Concerns
The main concern relating to BBLWO’s main managerial problem is the possible effects that the missed out problems could have on the growth and development of a very promising tourism-centered business that the Big Bear Lake offers. If BBLWO’s management would have the ability to handle their own affairs, they would have first-hand access to the problems and they would be able to know how to solve such in the most appropriate and in the least time consuming way.
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