Strategic Management Assignment (Est)

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT(EST)
Question 2:
Because leadership is an important aspect of strategy making and implementation, how do you compare
the approaches of the leaders of the following countries in dealing with the COVID 19 pandemic?
a. India
b. Singapore
c. Finland
d. USA
e. Canada
You can compare the way these leaders framed the pandemic. Some framed it as a tradeoff between
health and economics, others looked at it as freedom versus economics and some others as meaning and
value of life. These various framings could have influenced the way they approached the pandemic.
COVID-19 is testing world leaders on the pandemic. Who has stepped up?
The COVID-19 pandemic is endangering worldwide lives and livelihoods.
More than a million people in 180 countries have become ill from the infectious
disease in just three months, while at least 50,000 have died in a public health
emergency, which the United Nations terms the "most daunting situation" in the
world since World War II.
Lockdowns aimed at stopping the spread of the virus have brought life and
economic activity to a virtual standstill in large swathes of the globe. Hospitals are
overwhelmed by the sick and dying in the worst-hit regions while the poor and
helpless face extreme food shortages and malnutrition elsewhere.
Highlighting the danger this coronavirus poses to world peace and stability,
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, issued an urgent call
for action calling on politicians to forget about their political games and to come
together for a quick and immediate response.
If millions live or die depends on the decisions made by the world leaders in the
days and weeks ahead.
Reactions from heads of government in some countries have been characterized

by dithering and denial, motivated by personal interests, mistrust of science, or
fears of wreaking economic havoc.
In the USA, President Donald Trump initially downplayed the seriousness of the
epidemic, promising that one day the virus would "disappear" like "a miracle,"
and dismissing his political rivals' the fears about the disease as a "hoax." He only
changed his mind last week after polls showed an increasingly worried public and
modeling estimated that 200,000 people in the United States might die.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is also earning plaudits in Singapore for an
aggressive monitoring and tracing program that has kept the number of infections
in the country small-around 1,000 cases since the outbreak started. In an
interview with CNN, Lee said openness and trust are essential to the fight against
the virus in his country.
"We will be telling you if there's any bad news. If there is some stuff that needs to
be done, we will be telling you that too," he said. "When people don't believe
you, it will be very difficult to have them adopted, even though you have the right
steps." Despite these steps.
“Infections in Singapore, an affluent Southeast Asian city-state of fewer than 6

million people, have jumped more than a hundredfold in two months — from 226
in mid-March to more than 23,000, the most in Asia after China, India and
Pakistan.”
To counter this, The government shut schools and nonessential businesses

island-wide on April 7. So-called “safe distancing ambassadors” were recruited to
remind people to wear masks and stay at least a meter apart from each other in
public places, or face heavy penalties.
Meanwhile, all construction sites and dorms were locked down and foreign
workers largely confined in their rooms. More than 10,000 foreign workers in
essential services were moved to safer sites to reduce crowding, and testing was
ramped up to include people with no symptoms.
Like other countries, India doesn't have enough kits to check much of its
population for a new coronavirus. Instead, the government depends on people's
power: thousands of health staff rush around the world to hunt down and isolate
anyone who may have had communication with someone with COVID-19. People
are usually tested only if they develop symptoms. Epidemiologists believe that
India's policy of monitoring and quarantine connections, together with the
government's decision to order the world's nearly 1.3 billion people to remain at
home for 21 days from late March, has undoubtedly helped delay the spread of
the virus in certain areas, and has given the nation time to ready its ill health care
network. India has stepped up testing by contact tracing, rural differences and by
imposing strict lockdown and guidelines without fearing the loss of economy.
Finland adopted a hybrid strategy so as to move towards a normal lifestyle while

still containing an outbreak of coronavirus. PM stated that the plan will see
Finland slowly scale back the controls in order to control the virus whilst through
the monitoring. "Testing, tracing, isolating and treating thinking, as well as
bringing restrictive measures to a controlled conclusion," PM said. "We want to
push towards even more systematic research and tracking down others that have
been published," PM said. The government did not instantly remove any
limitations, including the closing of schools and public facilities, such as libraries,
and the prohibition on large meetings of more than 10 citizens until 13 May.
Restaurants are scheduled to remain closed until the end of May, except for take-
away sales.
Recent actions by Canada showed the rapid evolution of the country's response
to stop the spread of the pathogen and minimize disruption to the country's
economy. Despite the fact that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in voluntary
solitary confinement, when his wife Sophie Trudeau was tested positive for
COVID-19 after a trip to the United Kingdom. Canada's cabinet ministers and
public health authorities, together with regional and aboriginal politicians, intend
to evaluate existing and formulate potential public action strategies to slow down
the pace of illness "flattening the curve" in order to deter an epidemic from
crippling the healthcare structures in place. In response to the crisis, this is the
primary goal of most countries to minimize the increase in the number of people
getting sick at once. Protective steps that actively enhance physical space
between people “social distances” in order to avoid the transmission of disease or
self-quarantine in the event of exposure to the virus are important for mitigating
the effects of COVID-19 and preserving lives.
This is the summary of strategies taken by different countries to counter the war
against COVID-19 which has come like a storm to destroy our lives while the virus
will stay with us for a long time now. Governments are doing their best to
mitigate the risk involved. We as citizens have to step up in terms of following
rules and regulations imposed if we need to survive this massacre.
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT(EST)

The COVID-19 pandemic is endangering worldwide lives and livelihoods.

Reactions from heads of government in some countries have been characterized

“Infections in Singapore, an affluent Southeast Asian city-state of fewer than 6

To counter this, The government shut schools and nonessential businesses

Finland adopted a hybrid strategy so as to move towards a normal lifestyle while

Ishaan kumar 501904154(MBA3)

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