Management Style and Motivation at British American Tobacco

ASSESSMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Explain the Management style, principals and functions adopt by the CEO of British
American Tobacco..................................................................................................................3
Analyse the steps taken with regards to company structure to achieve good performance and
state organisation culture at BRITISH AMERICAN TABACOO and its impact on workers.. .4
Describe leadership style of CEO of BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO to increase the
company's effectiveness.........................................................................................................5
Analysing impact of power, influence and conflict on organisation.....................................7
Discuss various approaches of motivation used at British American Tobacco......................8
Use appropriate corporate examples and literature to justify your stand...............................9
Based on discussion and debate what suggestion or recommendation would you form to
enhance organisational performance....................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Management and the leadership style in every firm is different it varies according to the
function and activities that is used by the Board of Director. In which major part of function is
handled by the senior executives for the successful accomplishment of organisational goal within
stipulated time (Tourish, 2020). This current report is based on CEO of BRITISH AMERICAM
TOBACCO which is a global brand for tobacco. They serves their services approx 200 countries
with 57000 employees across globally. This assignment analyse the level of performance for
achieving growth and development in consistent level.
MAIN BODY
Explain the Management style, principals and functions adopt by the CEO of British American
Tobacco
Management style refers to the way adopted by a manager in order to manage the work
force and improve their efficiency (Kairys, 2018) . Jack Bowles who is the CEO of BAT adopts
following style to manage the work force in an efficient manner:
Autocratic and directive management style: Managers of organization adopt this practice
as they keep proper control over the activities performed by employees and also provide them
direction to work in an efficient manner.
Transactional Management style: Jack Bowles considers human resources as an
important part of organization. Management team of company provide various benefits such as
bonus,incentives, rewards, acknowledgement to work force. So they stay motivated and work for
the success and growth of company.
Principals and functions of Management:
There are some predefined functions of management that are used by Jack Bowles in the
following manner:
Planning: Higher authorities of company ensure to make appropriate plans and policies
in order to meet with future uncertainties(Vijayabanu, Suppraja and Sathammai, 2017). They
perform anticipations for future and formulate strategies to grab the opportunities that might
occur in upcoming years. It helps company to achieve organizational goals in pre-defined period
of time.

Organizing: Management team of BAT organize all the business activities in an efficient
way. Due to this they are able to reduce down cost and maximizing profits. Functions pertain to
production, distribution carries out effectively so that they can meet with the needs and
requirements of potential buyers.
Staffing: Human resources are key element of every organization. In selected company,
managers make sure to recruit and select efficient work force. They organize proper training and
development program for staff in order to enhance their productivity and work efficiency. CEO
of Jack Bowles undertake multiple rounds of interviews and appropriate screenings in order to
hire potential candidates.
Directing: Management team of organization provide proper direction to work force.
They guide and motivate them through several monetary and non monetary benefits. So, they
work for the betterment of company. Apart from this, they continuously interact with human
resources to create positive environment at work place.
Controlling: It is essential to enhance overall work efficiency and take necessary
corrective actions. Mangers of BAT continuously evaluate the actual work and compare it with
set standards. They identify deviations and take appropriate actions for further improvements.
Analyse the steps taken with regards to company structure to achieve good performance and state
organisation culture at BRITISH AMERICAN TABACOO and its impact on workers.
organisation Structure of BAT :
CEO of BAT adopted an hierarchy organisational structure in which roles and
responsibilities are divided and assigned to each levels of company.
BAT Kenya board charter 2019:
Board charter sets the values , mode of work, rules and roles for BOD. Its stipulation is
related with the postulation of standards. It includes CEO, chairman, director like Marion
Helmes, Luc Jobin and many other directors (Healy, 2016). Along this it involves several
department also such as marketing in which they use digital marking, E- commerce, etc. for
promoting their products. Other department they hold is operation that includes manufacturing &
inventory warehouse for production and storage of products along with this it also consist
functional department which includes scientific research, culture, finance imperial tobacco,
Reynolds American. The below pictures shows the organisational structure of BAT.