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Answer the following question.
Mita has a successful ice cream business at Bikaner, namely "Smart flavours' ice creams are utterly delicious. She makes ice creams from fresh milk and the same are available in a wide range of flavours and packs. She sets viable business objectives and works with the same in mind in order to ensure that the customers will come back for purchasing.
Having the first-mover advantage, her business was doing well. To earn higher profits, she started cutting costs. This would sometimes lead to delay in delivery and the ice cream was not reaching the market in time. Over a period of time, the demand for her ice cream declined and because of it, the competitors entered the market. She lost some of her market share to competitors.
At the beginning of the summer season, she got back to backorder for the supply of 4,000 ice cream packs of different flavors for special occasions. To ensure that the task was completed and orders delivered in time she hired additional workers. She was, thus able to produce and deliver the ice cream packs but at a high production cost. While completing activities and finishing the given task for achieving goals, Mita realized that she was ignoring one of the important aspects of management.
Identify the aspects of management that has been ignored by Mita. Also, explain the same with the help of an example.
Solution
The aspect of management that is being ignored is ‘efficiency’. This is because efficiency involves completing the task with the minimum possible cost and resources. Here as she was required to hire more workers to complete the task on time, she ignored the aspect of efficiency and only focused on effectiveness.
For example, if more workers are hired ⇒ task gets completed on time ⇒ then this is effective, but if more workers are hired ⇒ and cost increases in the form of increased salary ⇒ then it is not efficient.
Similarly, if a task is carried out with the same number of workers ⇒ Less cost ⇒ then it is efficient, but if the task is carried out with the same number of workers ⇒ and there is a delay in completion of work ⇒ then it is not effective.
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