HI6005 Management and in a Global Environment Organisations

behaviour of the workers. The strategies that are being implemented in practice by an organisation are dependent upon the intelligence level of its employees. It is important to convert the strategy into organisational structure practice that can help to decide upon the performance level.

It is important to develop the concept of smart simplicity, where the workers are able to work within the environment of implementing innovative techniques. This can be one of the effective ways to deal with complexity is within the organisational structure (Ashkenaset al. 2015).

According to Goetsch and Davis (2014), in corporate organisation, the structure of a company is decided upon the level of strategy that is being implemented in practice. In cases it has been seen that the strategy within the organisation helps to implement the organisational structure. Poor Organisational system can never help to implement effective organisational strategy. This can thereby help to implement the strategies that are required to improve the performance level of the overall organisation.

Saebi and Foss (2015), have argued about the facts related to organisational structure following organisational strategy. As there is more number of layers involved in the organisational structure, it takes longer duration for the implementation process of organisational strategy and major decision making process. Hence it is important to modify the strategy in order to develop better organisational structure. The initial process of strategic planning is also necessary in order to deal with important Organization structure. It is therefore clear that the structure that is a part of the organisation is dependent upon the effectiveness of the strategy that is being implemented in practice by the management. It is never possible to implement a new strategy in practice without modifying the organisational structure. For example, in case of Change management within organisation, restructuring within the workplace is one of the important step. Organisational structure can also help to optimise the strategic objectives and implement an important part of organisational design. Other important parts of the organizational strategy are important in the process of recruitment.

Hence it is important to mention that effective strategy an organisation is dependent upon effective organisational structure. However, the reverse is also true due to the fact that most of the Organisational structure is dependent upon the initial strategy that is being implemented in the overall practice process.

Activity 2: Holacracy

Question 1:

What’s your understanding of Holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?

Holacracy is believed to be one of the best methods of decentralizing the power that is restricted to the management within an organization. It is also believed that the centralizing of the power within the organization can limit the chance of innovation within the organization as the workers are not encouraged to take part in the major decision making process (Lemons 2017). With the help of the Holacracy, it is possible for the CEO of the organization to focus upon the new and experimental forms of organizational structure.   

As the employees are able to take part in the decision making process, it is possible them to have high level of working motivation. The Holacracy is like the democratic forms of leadership, where the workers are able to practice new methods of determining the ways about dealing with most of the challenges related to constitution of the workplace.   

One of the major differences of Holacracy compared to that of all other forms of team-based management like bureaucracy is that it is the factors related to the major decision making process. As in Holacracy, compared to other forms of team-based management, the employees are allowed to take part in the decision making process. Hence, it is possible to improve the level of leadership quality within the employees that is responsible for improving the level of performance within the organization.  

Question 2:

Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?

Contingency factors within Zappos are mainly achieved with the help of Holacracy practice. This can help to ensure that most of the workers are able to deal with the challenge of dealing challenges in the crisis situation. As the management are able to deal to maintain high level of clarity, it is possible for the workers to provide the extra efforts to deal with the contingency factors. With the help of most of the workers, it is possible to provide the solutions for the contingency factors.  

The workers will also have the ability to plan for the cost that is involved in the overall process that is involved as part of the Zappos financial plan. It is also possible for the workers to analyse the future uncertainties that can help to overcome the challenges related to financial constraints.

Question 3:

In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?

As Holacracy is being practiced within the organisational structure, it is possible to facilitate innovation within the work culture (Robertson 2015). It is also possible to bring about flexibility within the work culture. The power within the organisation is evenly distributed due to the fact that most of the workers are able to take part in the critical decision making process within the organization. The employees are also in courage to bring about innovative ideas to the management that can help in the overall performance rate of the organisation. Employees are also given extra compensation has that take part in extra added responsible works within the organisation. However there has to be a free and fair decision making process, which can decide upon the eligible candidates for implementing innovation within the workplace (Robertson 2015).

Conclusion 

In the concluding note, it can be said that the first activity mentions about the importance of organizational structure that is an important part of the strategy that is being implemented. It is also true that with the help of the perfect organizational strategy, it is possible to deal with the challenges with the organizational structure.

In the subsequent activity, the matters related to the holacracy practice are discussed that is believed to be one of the effective techquies to deal with structure of the organization. Here all the major decisions of the organization are being implemented with the help of the active opinion of all workers.

Reference

Ashkenas, R., Ulrich, D., Jick, T. and Kerr, S., 2015.The boundaryless organization: Breaking the chains of organizational structure. John Wiley & Sons.

Goetsch, D.L. and Davis, S.B., 2014. Quality management for organizational excellence. Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.

Lemons, J.F., 2017. Issue: Flat Management Short Article: Consulting Firm Experiments with ‘Holacracy’.

Robertson, B.J., 2015. Holacracy: The revolutionary management system that Abolishes hierarchy. Penguin UK.

Rowlinson, M., Hassard, J. and Decker, S., 2014. Research strategies for organizational history: A dialogue between historical theory and organization theory. Academy of Management Review, 39(3), pp.250-274.

Saebi, T. and Foss, N.J., 2015. Business models for open innovation: Matching heterogeneous open innovation strategies with business model dimensions. European Management Journal, 33(3), pp.201-213.