Proposal to Assist Phillips Financial Services: Organizational Structure, Workplace Culture, and Bullying Prevention Program

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Executive Summary
The main aim of this report, the aim of the discussion will be submitting a proposal to assist
Phillips Financial Services, who are facing some organizational issues. The proposal will also
help to identify the importance of having an appropriate organizational structure as the
company will grow in future. It will also help to discuss the ways of decreasing the bullying
behavior in the workplace of the company. It will also help to create a positive workplace
culture that will ep to embrace as well as respect the diversity and multiculturalism, which
will include the promotion of an ethical workplace in the marketplace.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Overview of the Company.........................................................................................................3
Organizational Structure............................................................................................................4
Workplace Culture.....................................................................................................................6
Workplace Bullying Prevention Program..................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
In this report, the aim of the discussion will be submitting a proposal to assist the
company of Nick Phillips, named Phillips Financial Services, who are facing some
organizational issues. The proposal will also help to identify the importance of having an
appropriate organizational structure as the company will grow in future. It will also help to
discuss the ways of decreasing the bullying behavior in the workplace of the company. It will
also help to create a positive workplace culture that will ep to embrace as well as respect the
diversity and multiculturalism, which will include the promotion of an ethical workplace in
the marketplace.
Overview of the Company
Phillips Financial Services is a start-up financial services consulting firm, which is
just 1-and-a-half-year-old. The founder of the company is Nick Phillips, who has kept the
name of the company matching with the title of his own name. He is also the CEO of the
company and apart from a Marketing Manager and Chief Financial Officer, there is not any
formalized structure in the organization. Initially there were 25 employees nut the number has
eventually increased to 50 in the last six months, in order to expand the company rapidly.
There are no Board of Directors, and Nick Philips is the only owner as well as the
shareholder of the company, and he has to take all the decisions relating to the business
operations of the company. The company provides services in Business Advisory,
Accounting and Tax and Self-Management Superb Funds. Though the company is growing,
yet the employees are stressed out and the employee morale is low. It has also been observed
by Nick Phillips that there are some kind of bullying behavior between the employees of the
organization, like between the older and the younger employees as well as between female
and male employees.