Organisational Theory and Practice: Management Style, Organisational Structure, Leadership Style, and Motivation at Mothercare

Organisational theory
and practice

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Examine the management style and state the principle and functions of management used by
the CEO?......................................................................................................................................1
Analyse the steps taken with regard to organisation structure in order to achieve high
performance and state the organisation culture at Mothercare and its impact on the employees.
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Describe the leadership style of the CEO of Mothercare to enhance the organisational
effectiveness................................................................................................................................4
Analyse the effects of power, influence and conflict at the chosen firm.....................................5
Discuss the various types of motivation used at Mothercare......................................................6
Use appropriate corporate examples and literature to justify your stand....................................7
Based on the discussion and debate what suggestions / recommendations would you make for
the revival of Mothercare.............................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
In present business world, running a company in an effective manner is one of the hardest
thing to do. It is said because, an organisation would required to take decisions in relation to
management style, organisational culture, leadership style in order to run the operations in a
successful manner (Larson and Foropon, 2018). In this report, organisation that has been taken
into consideration is Mothercare, one of the main worldwide brands for guardians and small kids
– again has a more promising time to come ahead as a dissolvable and money generative
organisation (group). Also, report is going to deliver the information about management style,
organisational culture, and leadership style, effect of power, influence and conflict within the
company and lastly assignment will put light on types of motivation used by Mothercare.
Main Body
Examine the management style and state the principle and functions of management used by the
CEO?
Management style: The CEO of Mothercare, Mr Glyn Hughes has specifically taken into
consideration of collaborative management style. Administrators with the cooperative style
discussed widely with workers and settle on choices by the larger part. The chief accepts that
including everybody and making the group take possession will bring about the best choices
made. The principle drawback of this style is that the time has come expending, and some of the
time the larger part choice isn't the best choice for the business element, wherein case, the
director should assume responsibility for the last decision. Therefore, Mr. Glyn Hughes
specifically takes suggestions from its employees and reach to the decision because he is the one,
who specifically takes the decision at the final stage of bringing any changes within the company
for the betterment of existing situation in near future (Enya, Pillay and Dempsey, 2018).
Contingency Management Theory: The hypothesis expresses that relations inspirations are
dependent upon whether the supervisor can both control and influence the gathering's situational
positivity, or result. If it is talk about Mothercare, then organisation was specifically going
downwards. It is must for Mr. Glyn to consider all the three elements of contingency
Management Theory and these are given underneath:
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 Pioneer part relations - This factor tends to the director's impression of his helpful
relations with his subordinates. As such, is the collaboration among Mr. Glyn and
workers fortunate or unfortunate? With the help of this, CEO of Mothercare will
effectively take into consideration of those steps which are required to collaborate with
staff members in order to perform well in today's business environment.
 Undertaking structure - This factor identifies with whether the structure of the work task
is exceptionally organized, subject to standard techniques, and subject to sufficient
proportions of appraisal. It will be required by Mr. Glyn to develop different range of
policies in order to motivate staff considering the different approaches like appraising
them in terms of money and many more other (Gunasekaran and et. al., 2018).
 Position power - This factor inquires as to whether the Mr. Glyn's degree of power
depends on rebuffing or compensating conduct.
Principles of Management:
Henry Fayol has given a range of principles of management and these are given underneath:
 Division of work: This is considered to be one of the crucial principal which is followed
by Mr Glyn in Mothercare, where are number of specialised tasks given to the staff
members which helps them in improvising their own skills much effectively and
efficiently.
 Authority: Being the CEO of Mothercare, Mr Glyn has already taken into consideration
of full authority considering ethical aspects in order to conduct every single business
operation for benefiting the society and company as well.
 Discipline: The culture which has been developed by Mr Glyn, has helped him in
building discipline considering different aspects like motivation, organisational rules and
so.
Functions of Management: Specifically, there are 5 different types of functions of
management are available and these are planning, controlling, staffing, organising and leading
that has helped Mr Glyn enhancing the proficiency of staff and held company in sustaining
within the market for a longer period of time at global level (Reedy, 2020).
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