Management Style and Functions of Management at Thomas Cook

1 Individual Case Study
Analysis

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
A) Management style and principle and functions of management used by CEO.....................1
B) Organisation structure to attain high performance and organisation culture of THOMAS
COOK and its impact on the employees.....................................................................................3
C) Leadership style of the CEO of Thomas Cook to enhance the organisational effectiveness.4
D) Effect of power, influence and conflict at Thomas Cook......................................................5
E) Various types of motivation used at Thomas Cook ..............................................................5
Proper corporate examples and literature....................................................................................7
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Organisation theory refers to the study of organisational design, structure and
relationship. It emphasis on such dimensions as an effective level of organisation specialisation,
formalisation, standardisation, complexity, goals, size, hierarchy of authority and strategy. In
addition, organisation theory is the set of interrelated concepts that explain the behaviour of
individuals, groups or subgroups, who interconnected with each other to do the business
activities towards attainment of common goal (Shah, Jones and Choudrie, 2019). Along with
this, organisational practices are refers to the actions and behaviour of employees. Organisation
practices are divided into two parts such as internal practice and external practice. These
practices have effects on employee relationship, interactions and also accomplishment. Internal
practices of an organisation is related with the recruitment and selection, organisational structure,
internal communications etc. External practices of company are correlated with the customers
and markets, product and services , vendors and business partners etc. Therefore, organisation
theory and practices are important part of the business success and growth.
Main purpose of this report is to explaining and describing the management style
followed by Mr Peter Fankhauser who is the CEO of Thomas Cook. This is a chosen British
global travel group. The company was founded in 1841 by Thomas Cook. This report divided
into different tasks that will be essential in completion of full project successfully. This report
includes management style and the principles and functions used by Peter Fankhauser.
Importance of organisation structure in attainment of high performance and impact of
organisation culture over employees performance will also used for completing this report.
Leadership style and effects of conflict, power and influence within Thomas cook will also
included in this project. Types of motivation used by CEO of Thomas Cook will also an
important part of this project (Roscoe and et. al., 2019). At last, this report will also includes
appropriate corporate examples and literature review for justifying the statement and some
recommendations in increment of organisation performance. Therefore, all these are consider
important part of conducting this report.
A) Management style and principle and functions of management used by CEO
In business organisation, there are various management styles used by manager with the
aim of enhancing organisational performance. In this regards, management is refers to the
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