CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT – ASSIGNMENT “1”
Amira Saaed Mohamed Mohamed
JANUARY 15, 2023
GROUP CODE: 1ST (G) - AAGSB_OCT’22_MON_MAN_1G / COURSE CODE: MNG914
Quarter One - Monday
UN Women Egypt – Country Office
It is an international, non-governmental and non-profit organization for gender equality. It was created in
July 2010, by the United Nations General Assembly. It delivers programmes, policies and standards that
uphold women’s human rightsand ensure that every woman and girl live up to her full potential. UN Women
in Egypt works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes, and services needed
to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls linked to the
2030 Agenda.
Beneficiaries:
Civil Society especially women in need. The organization is working on delivering a better
life for women in Egypt to fulfil 2030 Agenda.
Partners
National Partners
• Governmental: MOSS & MoIIC & Ministry of Planning.
• Private Sector: Coca-Cola & Blue Nile.
• Academia: Cairo University.
International Partners
• P&G.
• USAID.
Vision and Mission
Focusing on four strategic priorities:
• Women lead, participate in, and benefit equally from governance systems
• Women have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy
• All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence
• Women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience,
and benefitequally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action
Working for the empowerment and rights of women and girls globally, UN Women’s main roles are:
• To support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their
formulation ofpolicies, global standards and norms.
• To help Member States implement these standards, stand ready to provide suitable technical and
financial support to those countries that request it, and to forge effective partnerships with civil
society.
• To lead and coordinate the UN system’s work on gender equality, as well as promote accountability,
includingthrough regular monitoring of system-wide progress.
Number of Employees
It ranges between 20 – 35 employees in Egypt and around 200,000 people around the world.
Environmental Uncertainty
UN Women Egypt is very flexible organization to the changes in the environment. We can say that has a high
uncertaintyenvironment.
Internal Variables of the Organization
There is no effect from the internal variables to the goal of the organization. There is a strict code of ethics
and conduct to be followed internally. All is working for a better cause and higher goal which is to reach out
for women in need as many as we can. We have international and national staff members, they come all
over the world and work in Egypt according to their mission. All of them follow the code of conduct and the
policies and regulations of UN Women. We can say that the organization is multi-cultured.
The organization depends on the manpower, yet its focus is about the policies and the projects in the hands
of the executioners. As you can say, here the show must go on regardless of the internal variables indicated.
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Type of Organization Culture
It is Achievement Culture. No matter if changes happen in the environment the organization is stuck to
achieve its goals and mission. There is no extent to change in any way in the external environment. It is a
result-oriented culture. This is the best culture that the organization can work within. We can define that
the culture is flexible, but we are not working in a crisis. We tend to be more bureaucratic yet what differs
us from bureaucratic is that we can change to fulfil our goal and keep the project working.
Environmental Scanning
Task Environment:
Competitors: None. It is not a competitive market (Solo) as all organizations with the same approach, aim to
help the society, yet UN Women differs by the uniqueness of its projects that it works on, and differs by the
connections that it has with the government.
❖ So, we can say that competitors don’t affect the approach and the goal (environment) of UN Women
Egypt.
Suppliers: It doesn’t affect the organization much because the organization sets rules and regulations and
policies on how the project should operate, then it funds its partners from the international fund that it gets,
and the partners execute the project and follow up with the beneficiaries.
Also, the suppliers’ problems in getting papers, hygiene staff etc. for the office, all of this was solved when
the notion of “working from home” was raised and implemented. So, we decreased the stuff that was used,
and we didn’t face any other problems with the suppliers.
❖ So, we can say here that the suppliers here affect the executioners whom the organization funds, and
don’t affect the approach (environment) of UN Women Egypt.
Customers: they are the beneficiaries, and they are important because they determine the success of the
program and services given by the organization. Moreover, the international fund is defined according to the
success of the project. The success of the project is determined by the number of women in need we reached
out. If the organization didn’t reach many beneficiaries and serve them according to the implemented
policies and regulations, then the fund would be decreased to the organization. We are supported by the
government in reaching out to the women in need.
❖ So, we can say that customers (beneficiaries) affect the approach (environment) of UN Women Egypt
greatly. They are the reason UN Women Egypt was created.
Labor Market: it refers to the UN staff members, it affects the organization when other organizations serve
the same scope, offer higher salaries to the UN staff members, and gains more manpower. Yet you can find a
large sector of people targets to work in the UN system.
❖ So, we can say that labor market affects the approach (environment) of UN Women Egypt somehow.
General Environment:
Economic: the organization helps women in need by empowering them and teaching them how to be empowered
economically. If entering the market financially is hard, then the organization will face problems in teaching women and
empowering them, will lead to declining number of projects and decreasing the number of women the organization
reached out. Economic situation in Egypt doesn’t affect the organization financially as it is funded internationally. Yet it
affects the beneficiaries and the employees who are working in the organization.
❖ So, we can say that economic dimension affects the approach (environment) of UN Women Egypt somehow.
Legal-Political: None, as we have the governmental entities as partners to help UN Women Egypt completes its mission.
Also, global wise, there are no sanctions or rules that strict the work of UN Women in Egypt.
❖ So, we can say here that legal-political dimension here doesn’t affect the approach (environment) of UN Women
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Egypt.
Socio-Cultural: None, UN Women Egypt must implement the rules and regulations to empowerment women with no
discrimination regardless religion, culture, and race to achieve goals of 2030 Agenda. This is one of the main codes of
conduct in UN Women.
❖ So, we can say here that the socio-cultural dimension here doesn’t affect the approach (environment) of UN Women
Egypt.
Technological: I refer here to new technologies that emerge in the usage of implementing projects and creating new
ideas for women’s economic empowerment.
❖ So, we can say that technology affects the approach (environment) of UN Women Egypt somehow and helps the
organization fulfil its goal in a better way.
Natural: None. Egypt’s nature is friendly to work in it. the organization can reach women easily. And the goal is to reach
as many women as we can no matter what the obstacles.
❖ So, we can say here that nature doesn’t affect the approach (environment) of UN Women Egypt.
International: recently the fund was decreased due to growth of inflation in the USA and due to Ukrainian war. This
affected the projects and some of the projects were closed before finishing their mission.
❖ So, we can say that international dimension affects the approach (environment) of UN Women Egypt greatly. It is
how UN Women Egypt was created in the first place.
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