Management Style and Principles at Thomas Cook

This report analyzes the management style and principles at Thomas Cook, a leading tourism and hospitality company. It explores the CEO's leadership style, the impact of power and influence, and motivation techniques used within the organization. The report also provides corporate examples and recommendations for further improvement.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
TASK A................................................................................................................................................4
TASK B.................................................................................................................................................5
TASK C.................................................................................................................................................6
TASK D................................................................................................................................................7
TASK E.................................................................................................................................................8
Corporate examples...........................................................................................................................9
Recommendations:............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................10
REFRENCES......................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Management style and principles, function of management has high correlation with
each other and the way CEO of an organisation exercises the functional responsibilities
towards working paradigms at company. Thomas cook is one of the best tourism and
Hospitality Company within the world industry which has been successful in delivering best
quality services, and travel packages to people on world level. The company has been
strongly present into international market of tourism and hospitality industry by being
effective and profoundly present on world paradigms to serve customers market share. CEO
of company has been highly pragmatic and innovative in managing all employees within
business scenario with new creativity of functions and motivating employees among all
departments. Report explains how CEO has programmed into company structure in order to
achieve high performance and the culture which impacts on employees working parameters
for delivering best developed working scenario (Anitha, 2016).
The report has analysed leadership style of CEO to enhance company effectiveness
and how power, influence and conflict at impact company for longer working development
along with analysis of role of motivation within internal structure of Thomas Cook. Report
also analyses various corporate examples and recommendations to further improve overall
performance metrics among functional paradigms and how it can strength its goodwill and
enter into new segments of customers market share. There is detailed working operation
explanation on various paradigms at company management level where Thomas Cook has
been highly effective and rationally on bringing new horizons at work with technical

advancement. Report has analysed how various parameters of leadership, positive usage of
power and influence among employees and leaders at company enable to develop strong
functional paradigm towards bringing on new rational services and functional development.
Thomas cook CEO has been active to bring on new paradigm of productive working strength
by innovative leadership and correct management principles usage to bring on higher quality
fundamentals (Balwant, 2016).
TASK A
Management style consists of planning, prioritizing and organising the work efforts to
accomplish collective objectives of business organisation framework and a particular
management style is understood as particular way among managers to accomplish the set
performance standards. Thomas Cook is one of the best tourism management companies
among world due to its innovative business services and effective functional framework
towards all regulatory frameworks. CEO Peter Fankhauser management style is considered
to be highly influential and has been working as one of the biggest asset of Thomas cook on
bringing forward best services and quality standards among all functional paradigms. The
CEO follows participative style of management where all employees within the workforce in
various departments are given equal work opportunities to bring on best performance
standards. Leadership has strong influence to play among the management style where all
employees are given new skills training within brainstorming sessions, leverage best
fundamentals to pool all resources for serving the customers with best services. Also the
function of management used by CEO has been highly relative to bring on new changes with
dynamic business world, technology usage for bringing on best platforms of promotion
among world. There has been huge technical advancement among employees performance
behaviour at Thomas &Cook to be innovative and work on dynamic working patterns under
strong innovative leadership of CEO (Braithwaite, Herkes and Lamprell, 2017).
Another management function is also focused towards quick decision making
potentialities among leaders within various teams and management working paradigms to be
largely explorative and rational to bring on large functional paradigms with changing
business world. The various functions of management which are planning, organising,
staffing, directing and controlling are highly functionally operated by CEO with strong
qualitative parameters to attain strong cooperation and ethical functional determinants onto
higher performance levels which enables to gain strong developed working standards among

all working paradigms. There has been rationally new technology innovation usage within
management where Thomas Cook has been successful in attaining large goodwill and higher
profit margins among the tourism, hospitality industry which is undergoing huge
transformation (Bratton, 2020).
TASK B
The organisation culture at Thomas Cook is innovative and team oriented which has
developed structure to be more highly effective with changing paradigms of time and growth
in performance has also been productively growing highly. Thomas cook organisation culture
has been showing huge development among all advances and rational fundamental up
gradation has functionally brought new performance standards. Thomas cook has taken
various steps in order to achieve high performance parameters which are as follows:
 Leaders within all teams are working with strong innovative mindset and rational new
creativity fundamentals where brainstorming sessions of employees are also productively
developed on new working standards. Thomas Cook has been working with new creative
ideas and determinants of functional strength for gaining larger productive working
paradigms to be effective in building commitment and strength among employees working
within various departments (Deschamps, Rinfret and Privé, 2016).
 Thomas cook works with time management and flexible decision making to bring on new
synergy of working strength and larger working strength to bring on high developed
functionality. The management of company has been explorative to encourage new ideas
and brainstorming sessions among employees who are working within company and there
has been high increase among management commitment. Motivation is also an important
paradigm to positively build the complete strength of all workforces who are an integral part
of management at Thomas Cook.
 Thomas Cook uses innovative information networking standards and various portals to bring
on large effective changes to bring on high creativity and higher functionality among all
operations within employees working in company. Training platforms are highly
programmed with new changes and functional strength development to bring on strong
synergy of working arena which has been positively building their motivation. Thomas
Cook has been developing its working company culture with technical advancement and
rational development to be the best human resource workforce and in delivering high quality
standards services among all paradigms (Driskill, 2018).

TASK C
CEO of Thomas Cooks has been highly effective to bring on strong leadership style to
enhance organisational leadership and to program out best fundamentals onto which all
employees are working with high commitment and strong innovation. Thomas Cook CEO
uses Participative leadership which is a managerial style which invites inputs from employees
on all company decisions and focuses to gain strong working paradigms for reaching
technical advancement and higher working arenas. The elements of participative leadership
style are based on higher rational behaviour among management where employees are given
dynamic working training which are not only relatively important to achieve but is also a
higher aim for company to achieve. The CEO has been aiming to develop new training
sessions and development platforms to keep all employees motivated and retained for larger
working hemisphere and to produce high end benchmarks (Gelfand, Aycan and Leung,
2017).
Participative leadership works as one of the most important asset which not only
builds complete networking parameter by bringing employees and leaders under one force for
competitive growth. The diversity and equality among workforce is highly appreciated and
functionally programmed to bring on high strength onto all paradigms for larger working
strength which will enable to yield strong rational services and also induce new innovative
ideas into all departments. Thomas Cook goodwill among hospitality and tourism industry
has been achievable with the successful organisation culture and leadership of CEO whose
vision to bring all employees together has been successful to be one of the biggest strength.
The participative leadership also enables to be one of the biggest forces which has
connectively built all employees under leader vision to work onto set targets and also produce
higher effectiveness among working paradigms. Thomas Cook CEO aims to bring on positive
synergy of working strength among all employees within various departments, to yield onto
more productive growth parameter which will focus to be determined in gaining larger
profitability vision and to be effective in leading all employees (Gilbert, Horsman and
Kelloway, 2016).
TASK D
Effects of power, influence and conflict at Thomas Cook organisational culture can be
analysed with the fact that CEO has been highly active to bring on strong positive power and
use influence to develop new parameters of leadership. The power of all leaders within

Thomas cook are based on positive paradigms where employees and teams are supervised ,
monitored with innovative approaches to gain new skills and also loom upon new working
strengths. The influence of leaders within company business framework can be assessed with
relative advancement and high growth synergy among the set performance targets. Symbolic
interactionism is one of the most impactful theory of power which enables to develop strong
functional parameter onto various actions which company leader develops and proportionally
trains employees working within teams to improve their functional strength. The power and
influence by symbolic leadership is functionally targeted to be focused onto bringing large
productive synergy of performance metrics and how working ethics can be developed onto
higher fundamental levels (Helmreich and Merritt, 2019).
Thomas Cook has been using successfully hosting positive power and influence
among all employees and rationally bringing best outputs from the all positive powers which
are targeted for longer working fundamentals. CEO influence and positive usage of power
can be fragmented onto how higher performance metrics are developed onto new working
paradigms and gained to bring larger effective working strength among employees developed
parameters. The employees feedbacks and grievances are positively looked upon with
various new avenues and are functionally solved by leaders to be stronger effectively formed
onto higher paradigms and technically bring larger advancement onto higher paradigms.
Symbolic internationalism is one of the most innovative way through which subordinates can
be supervised with actions and visionary elements to be smartly trained and influenced with
positive actions to bring on higher quality paradigms. There has been high positive growth
among employees working standards as with training they are inclined to be highly dynamic
and functionally targeted to be best relatively bringing forward high growth (Harwiki, 2016).
TASK E
There has been various motivation techniques and theories attached to motivation
enhancement among employees within Thomas Cook company which is one of the most high
developed tourism company into world and has been widely known to be strongly serving
vivid fundamentals onto higher margins. The company CEO has been focusing to provide
various extrinsic and intrinsic motivations to all employees within department to bring on
more developed fundamentals and higher growth paradigms to be innovatively skilled.
Leaders are focused to be rational and provide utmost resources and functional training to all
employees who look onto higher developed working technicality, keenly progressively

working onto more leveraged fundamentals and rationally bring on strong functional chains
of determinants. CEO has been strongly active to bring on more motivation parameters where
there are physiological, safety, love needs and belonging, esteem and self actualization needs
which are highly pragmatic and rationally bringing more functional parameters.
There are Physiological needs on first stage, safety needs, belonging needs onto
another stage and belonging needs, esteem needs and self actualization needs further which
enable to gain more productive training and motivation among employees. Employees at
Thomas Cook are highly functional and pragmatic to bring on more training and highly
effective working paradigms to keep on motivated employees so that they are retained for
longer working hemisphere (Rezvani, Khosravi and Dong, 2017).
Thomas Cook Company also focuses to improve regular motivation and factors to
develop new skills and rationally new changes which will develop strong working paradigms
for higher strength. Monetary benefits are the various extrinsic benefits, appraisals and
various recognition which impacts company strength and human capital to bring higher
development and determinants to bring on developed working paradigm. CEO leadership
style has been strongly focused to keep on strong motivation among workforce where all
paradigms are targeted to be stringent and rationally target onto more developed
phenomenons for higher outputs. CEO of Thomas Cook has been working with strong
leadership and fundamental ethics to be progressive to bring on strong motivation among
employees working within business scenario and onto developed working paradigms. The
motivation techniques also include rationally training all employees and recognising various
opportunities for programming out new functional paradigms which keeps on motivating
employees to look upon longer technical advancement onto longer working vision for
stronger working paradigms. There has been various growth and recognition of work
paradigms to yield onto new determinants for programming out new working scenario,
leverage more functional strength which will also keep on stronger working paradigms
(Sagnak, 2016).
Corporate examples
Corporate examples to justify the working parameters of how working paradigms at
Thomas Cook has been working with high functional strength and how CEO has developed
an effective leadership style which has been motivated all employees and working standards
among leaders. The brand has been working on various international platforms in foreign

countries where it has successfully built various paradigms onto which it has built
partnerships and mergers with worldwide brands. Thomas Cook leadership by CEO enables
us to analyse how various innovation has been working successfully to bring on various
paradigms fir higher creativity along with high yield of technical advancement along with
strong functional standards. The corporate structure has been very advance and technically
progressive with new working standards which keep on motivating employees to work onto
new functional strengths. The brand has been working with various new enterprises and
companies within various parts of world to put on strong functional paradigm which has
brought goodwill among consumers market share. Thomas Cook has been developing into
progressive work arenas with various new portfolio of innovative products, services with
strong promotional services and parameters onto digital marketing media. CEO business
decisions has highly effective to bring on new rational services and functionally
programming into more rational synergy where all employees are working under team leaders
and there has been high motivation working onto the set productivity standards.
Recommendations:
 Thomas Cook has for more progressive working performance and effectiveness among
business development can also uses new automation into production technology standards
and be largely effective to bring on high innovation onto new working paradigms. The
innovation at work with automation at work will also not only vastly develop strong
networking of business functions and keenly upgrade its working paradigms with new
rational synergy of actions to bring on large diversity (Schneider, González-Romá and West,
2017).
 Thomas Cook can also outsource its human capital and various new functional production
parameters which will not only develop the higher effective working standards, keenly
develop new synergy of technological advancement among employees. Higher the diversity
among workforce more is high dynamic functional strength among all parameters which will
bring stronger working paradigm for larger quality services.
 Thomas cook can also upgrade its social media presentation and promotional avenues by
bringing forward new marketing techniques and functional paradigms which are highly
restorative and determinants based onto new relative technological advancement. Thomas
Cook has been gaining huge success among customers market share to be one of the best
tourism and hospitality company which can also program out new determinants to bring on
large functional strength for higher role and advancement (Yahaya. and Ebrahim, 2016).

CONCLUSION
The report can be concluded with detailed explanation on how Thomas Cook has been
working into its organisation culture and bringing on new working paradigms to be largely
productive for higher effectiveness of company objectives. Report has also examined how the
brand has been developing new standards of working management objectives with new force
of company business framework and being largely progressive to bring on large technical
advancement (Asencio and Mujkic, 2016). The report also concludes Thomas Cook CEO
leadership style where leader has been working with all employees effectively and working
with effective working paradigms to bring on large synergy of strong goodwill and
profitability. The leader has been working with transformational leadership at all department
levels where there has been strong synergy of positive motivation among leaders to look
upon new working styles and develop more advanced growth. Further the report has also
concluded various examples of its strong functioning within the corporate culture and how
the performances of Thomas Cook has been determined to be one of the most advanced
within tourism and hospitality companies in world industry. The report has also concluded
recommendations on how and on what grounds further large working parameters can be more
developed with stronger innovation, new marketing fundamentals and rational functional
strength to bring on larger productivity. Thomas Cook being one of the most largely spread
international tourism company has been highly advanced into more productive working
fundamentals to bring on larger working standards and to be productive onto new functional
standards present among world (Lai, Hsu and Li, 2018).

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