Willmott Dixon Organizational Culture

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Contents
Willmott Dixon Organizational Culture..........................................................................................2
Role of Politics and Power..............................................................................................................3
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................4
Content Theory of management......................................................................................................5
Process Theory of management.......................................................................................................6
Achievements..................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................10

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Willmott Dixon Organizational Culture
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In respect of Charles Handy’s organization culture model, Power culture, Task culture, Role
culture and Person culture form its key categories. According to Power culture, only few
individuals in the organization retain power. In the task culture, teams are formed to overcome a
particular problem in the organization. In the Role culture, people are highly controllable with
the predefined rules and responsibilities in the organization. Lastly, in Person culture, the
organization is entirely in service of its employees as they are highly educated and gain ample
freedom in their work. They attain high skills to work on their own. The strength of the
employees is generally low and they have to follow few rules and instruction in a company. It
focuses on developing employee’s relation by sharing interest and values. Employees in this
culture are considered superior then the organization itself. Further, the successful
implementation of management hierarchy depends upon the mutual approval of the employees
only. Coordination is the one of the problem arises in this culture. Person culture considered to
have a short life span in an organization (Staber, 2019).
Person culture is the most followed culture in professional organizations. Similarly, Willmott
Dixon is a follower of ‘Person Culture’. Soon after the company establishment in 1854, it has
always laid emphasis on its employees. It focuses on developing interpersonal relationship with
the company, people associations, and communities. It also gives prior attention to the internal
organization environment. It offers positive work environment to its people as they are
considered company’s resources. Each employee has a separate individuality and they are known
by their uniqueness and names rather than by their assigned number. Through their high
contribution towards the Willmott, they make a difference by their presence. The main aim of the
company is to provide significance importance to its staff members. Further, Willmott has gain a
4.1 star rating on employees benefit reviews because of the benefits it provides to its employees.
 It contributes 6% towards the employee’s pension. As per the employee individual
performance, it provides bonus up to 15%.

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 Staff members are provided with 24 days annual leave. They are also given annual day
off for their birthday. It provides Company’s phone, car, and bikes to its staff members,
to assist them in work (Glassdoor, 2019).
 It offers rewards for the employee’s efforts in the work place and organizes fun parties to
boost up the moral of the employees. Besides these, it provides a safe, secure, healthy and
clean work environment (Indeed, 2019).
Figure 1: Employee Review
Source: (Indeed, 2019)
 Its workforce comprises of people of different diversity and background to foster fresh
and creative ideas in the company. It maintains employee’s dignity at work by eradicating
biasness in respect of age, colour, caste, gender and status. Further, 24% of its workforce
is of women employees and it aims to enhance their number in future.
 It offers career opportunities to the employees attaining good merits and potential in their
work. It assists the employees in utilizing their full potential to achieve organization goal.
Further, managers are provided with cultural awareness trainings and development
programs (Mums, 2019).
Role of Politics and Power
Organization politics is the usage of irrational behavior by an individual to attain positive
benefits that are beyond the control, resulting in development of negative atmosphere in the
organization. It is usually done by targeting employee’s and blaming them for not accepting their
errors, keeping secrets, providing partial, manipulative information and establishing rationalism