Proposal for Organizational Structure and Workplace Bullying Prevention Program for Phillips Financial Services

This presentation proposes an organizational structure and workplace bullying prevention program for Phillips Financial Services. It discusses the importance of having an appropriate organizational structure and ways to decrease bullying behavior in the workplace. The presentation also covers the company overview, organizational structure, organizational culture, leadership style, and steps for creating and sustaining a positive and ethical organizational culture.

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Introduction
 In this presentation, the aim of the discussion will be submitting a
proposal to assist the company named Phillips Financial Services
 The company is facing some organizational issues
 The proposal will 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

Overview of the Company
 Phillips Financial Services is a start-up financial services consulting
firm
 The company is 1-and-a-half-year-old
 The founder of the company is Nick Phillips
 He is also the CEO of the company
 There is not any formalized structure in the organization
 Marketing Manager and Chief Financial Officer are only the top level
managers apart from CEO
 Number of employees has become 50 from 25 in the last six months
 The range of the age of the employees is between 23 and 68

More Facts about the Company
 There are no Board of Directors
 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
 The company provides services in Business Advisory, Accounting and
Tax and Self-Management Superb Funds
 There is a multicultural representation of employees in the
organization, who comes from different religions and cultures
 The employees belong from various countries like India, South Africa,
New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America,
China and Brazil, though the maximum employees are from Australia
 65% of them are men and 35% are women

Organizational Stricture
 Organizational structure can be termed as the of a particular business
operations formal or internal framework
 It helps to show the process or the way in which the management or
the employees should be linked together
 This framework usually helps to define the hierarchy in a company
 It also helps to obtain the individual aims and objectives of the
organization for self-development and improvement of the company

Organizational Structure for PFS
 According to the Human Resources Consulting Firm, Phillips
Financial Services need to follow the Functional Structure
 This type of structure mainly aims on the functions which are
set up for each of the department of the company
 Phillips Financial Services has three departmental heads in
the form of CEO, Marketing Manager and Chief Financial
Officer
 Under them three other departments will be there in terms of
the services provided by them
 They are Business Advisory, Accounting and Tax and Self-
Management Superb Funds

Organizational Structure for PFS

Advantages of Organization Structure
 It will help to segregate the work between the higher authorities
 The load of the work can be distributed and many more aspects of
management knowledge can be gathered from different levels of
the organization
 This will help in specialization as well as increase in the efficiency
 The work can be segregated among the three types of services
provided by the company
 One leader on each of the three kinds of services, according to the
performance level of that employee in this organization as well as
his or her prior experience to that field

Organizational Culture
 The organization of Phillips Financial Services possess a multi-
cultural work environment
 As stated earlier, the organization has employees from eight
different countries
 So employees from all these regions will automatically have
different representation of culture
 It can be said that culture includes values, behaviour,
assumptions and norms
 Organizational culture can be defined as the expectations, values
and behaviours which helps tom hold the company together

Organizational Culture for PFS
 In this organization, power culture can be followed by the
employees of the organization
 In this culture, the decision making power lies at the highest level
of the management
 Nick Phillips is the sole decision making authority in the company
 This kind of culture is mostly suitable where there are small
number of employees
 The relationship between the employees is adaptive and informal
which helps to lead to good personal relations

Leadership Style
 The leader can transform and change the organizational culture
 A successful leader can be a transformational one, who will
help to create as well as communicate a proper vision
 It will help to construct a culture within the organization which
can be successful in near future
 It will also help to promote trust, mutual decision making,
creativity, personnel development and two-way
communication

Leadership Style for PFS
 Transformational leadership can be followed by the CEO of
Phillips Financial Services
 It will help to have positive influences in the organizational
culture
 To share the policy development, stimulation of involvement and
teamwork, corporate vision and influencing flow of information
among the employees of the organization are the qualities of an
effective leader

Steps for creating and sustaining a
positive and ethical organizational culture
 Clear Expectations
 From the Top Down
 Positive Reinforcement
 Feedback Mechanisms
 Training

Workplace Bullying Prevention Program
 The type of workplace bullying faced in this company is between the
female and male employees and also between the old and new employees
 This is a major factor of the stress and low morale of the employees in the
organization
 It also hampers the job satisfaction level of the employees
 It will also diverse the efficient efforts from the productivity of the
employees

Precautionary Measures
 Antibullying policies need to be implemented by the
organization in order to stop the bullying behavior by
the employees
 Strict rules must be made and must be implemented in
the organization in order to stop the bullying behavior
between all the employees
 It will also hamper the ethical work culture in the
organization of Phillips Financial Services

Conclusion
 To create and maintain a proper ethical organizational culture along with
a structured organizational structure is very much necessary
 It will help in the growth and sustainability of a business operation in this
highly competitive world
 It is the duty of an effective leader like Nick Phillips to lead from the
front to run the business of Phillips Financial Services efficiently and
effectively

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