Note: There are five questions in this assignment. Attempt all the questions and send them to the Coordinator of the Study Centre you are attached with.

1. Explain how political-legal factors present an opportunity as well as threat to a particular industry or a business organization. Illustrate with the help of an example.

2. What is the purpose of SWOT analysis? Why is it necessary to do a SWOT analysis before selecting a particular strategy for a business organization?

3. Assume that you are in the top management cadre of commercial airlines, which is competing with the low cost strategy. Frame an appropriate organization culture for your organization so that it can maintain its position in the market.

4. Identify a company of your choice from automobile industry. Try to analyze the company’s industry environment from an international perspective.

5. Explain how strategic control helps in balancing the interaction between the business’s internal and the external environment.