Reflective Piece Essay 2022

Running head: ESSAY: REFLECTIVE PIECE
ESSAY: REFLECTIVE PIECE
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author Note

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As an undergraduate student of business administration and management, I had been
fortunate enough to work with the Wesfarmers Australia, the most famous supermarket of the
country as an assistant manager. The respective paper is a reflective article about the experience I
gathered as a management trainee and employee in the company Wesfarmers Australia. The
respective paper is an evaluation of the credibility and effectiveness of the respective
organization, the purpose of the organization with the reflective analysis of the stakeholders and
the implications of the effectiveness of the organization.
Purpose and scope of the organization
Wesfarmers limited is a conglomerate company of Australia which has its headquarters in
Perth. The company specializes in retail of the country Australia and New Zealand on chemicals,
fertilizers, coal mining, industrial and safety products (Wesfarmers.com.au., 2019). A
conglomerate company can be defined as a combination of multiple business entities operating in
entirely different industries under one corporate group. A conglomerate can also be called a
multi-industry organization. The company Wesfarmers is considered to be the largest Australian
company by revenue which has been overtaking the other powerhouses of Australia, which are
Woolworths and BHP. The company is considered to be the largest private employer in Australia
having around 220,000 employees working under the company (Campbell, 2017).
Evaluation
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the organization Wesfarmers Australia, I have
utilized the Institutional and Organizational Assessment Model (IOA Model). The Institutional
and Organizational Assessment Model is a framework that consists of four parts of assessment
which includes: External environment, organizational motivation, organizational performance

2ESSAY: REFLECTIVE PIECE
and organizational capacity (Schaltegger, Hansen and Lüdeke-Freund, 2016). I would like to
utilize the respective criteria because the respective model holistically and comprehensively tries
to evaluate the respective organization from every sphere and dimensions, encompassing all the
statics and dynamics of the organization. Therefore, I believe the IOA Model would be ideal for
assessing the organization I have chosen, which is Wesfarmers Australia.
Stakeholders’ Assessment
The two stakeholders taken into account in case of the organization Wesfarmers Australia
are the employees and the customers. The respective criteria that I have chosen, which is the IOA
Model or the Institutional and Organizational Assessment Model, might also be utilized by the
respective stakeholders I have taken into account, the employees and the customers, who would
assess the organization based on the factors of the model.
The respective model consists of four factors, which are: External environment,
organizational motivation, organizational performance and organizational capacity. The
employees would assess the organization on the grounds of External environment, organizational
performance and organizational motivation in order to come into any kind of conclusion
regarding the company. Under external environment, factors such as legal, social, political,
economic, ecological and technological factors, or rather external environmental factors that
influence the organization is present. The employees would definitely assess them in order to
understand the possible opportunities and threats the company might face which is also
important for the employee as he might be working with them. The factor of organizational
motivation which consists of history, mission, culture and incentives of the organization would
also be assessed by the employee as he needs to know what is the history of the organization