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Name Kimberly Hodge 1. Using APA citations to support your statements, explain what a canker table is and why it is important to an organization (1-2 paragraphs). Pest Analysis is a frame fail that strategy consultants mathematical functions to scan the mirco environment in which the steady operates. (Value found 2013) PEST is Political, Ecomonic, Social factor and Techonolgies factors. Companies will use this in workshops and it will perk up the managmenets brainstorm techniques using PEST for strategic plannings, merchandising planning or development in the military control organization or the production. (Value Based 2013) 2.Include an explanation of the organization and environment you ar focusing on in the PEST table (3-5 sentences) I answer 4 before I answer this one. It is combine of both questions. The organization would be my bike shop. I would use this table to think how this would affct my employees and the consumers. Political section, with the Furlough qualifyi ng on and unemployment numbers are going up.. I need to be witting that I will have good long time and bad days with sales. The next couple months were be good month because income refunds are feeler in and people want to buy and spend but thusly at the same time consumers may be saving as well.International trades will be affecting my bike shop because some of the bikes are shipped from France, Switzerland and other countries. I need to be alert this could affect my stemma as well.. Social is a huge impact for any business. And I think economic influences genial a lot. Then Technologies, there are always virgin gadgets that are being added to the bikes or can be purchased to add to the bike. As a management, I have to be aware that when I promote new technology, I need to let them fare what is new and how does it work. 3. 4. Identify 3-5 items in each category and post them in the PEST table below.Provide enough detail to explain your thoughts for each item. whizz or tw o lines will suffice for each item gratify avoid using one-word, generic items within the table. Political1. Tax policies2. political stability3. natural rubber regluations4. international trade regulations and restricitions5. contract enforcement law consumer protection economic1. stage of the business cycle2. consumer confidence3. exchange rates/inflaction rates4. Interest rates and montery policies5. unemployment policy SOCIAL1. income distriubiton2. labor/social mobility3. lifestyle changes4. health consciousness and welfare, feelings on saftey5. iving conditions TECHOLOGY1. government research spending2. new inventions and development3. energy use and costs4. rate of technology transfer5. life cycle and pep pill of technological obsolescence 5. If you were the leader of the organization used here, how would you utilize the information in the PEST graph, and what changes would you make based on your results? How would those changes affect the success of the business? (1-2 par agraphs) When I am leader of the organization, I will need to manifestation each catergory and determine what are affecting our people in our country.People may be looking for changes or having trouble adapting to changes. Why are the changes natural event like the example in the book talking about when the records were going out and the CD were coming in and it happened almost over night. This essence people who had record players did not have CD players.. The customers had to buy CD players before they could buy the CD. This is what I need to look, what will happen if I change something, does this mean the consumers will have to spend money to make something adapt to something such as CD player. With the government changes laws, it affects our people.Like recent event, the Furlough, I know some people are losing two days of work per payperiod, this will affect their paychecks which will affect the social. So as a leader, we have to look how each category will affect the next. 6 . References (please use proper APA set up as you construct the reference list) treasured Based Management. Net (January 2, 2013) http//www. valuebasedmanagement. net/methods_PEST_analysis. html GRADING RUBRIC circumstance Point Value Assignment Content In depth responses to any questions 40 General Writing and APA compliance 10 Total 50