Leadership, Cultural and Performance Change at MeatPack

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Organisational Behaviour
Leadership, Cultural and Performance Change at MeatPack

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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................. 2
Answer 1: Hands-on or Hands-off Approach............................................................................3
Answer 2: Senior leadership change........................................................................................4
Improvements in the near future.........................................................................................6
Answer 3: Culture and performance change............................................................................6
Barriers to cultural change...................................................................................................7
Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 9
References..............................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The objective of this report is to evaluate the case study titled ‘Leadership, Cultural and
Performance Change at MeatPack’ in order to deal with aspects of leadership, cultural and
performance outcomes. This report will focus on elaborating different types of leadership
styles which a leader can follow in order to attain and sustain employee satisfaction in the
workplace. This report will evaluate whether Bison should adopt a more hands-off or a more
hands-on approach in the business. This report will also evaluate the traits which a leader
must have in order to achieve effectiveness of the organisation. It is important that the
leader must set priorities in the business and compare with performance with the desired
target to determine whether the company is performing as per the plan or not. The changes
which senior leadership should bring in the new future will be analysed in this report. This
report will focus on the importance of employees involved in the decision-making process
which enables them to feel a part of the company. This report will evaluate to what extent
MeatPack flatter structure will result in assisting the corporation in creating cultural and
performance change and identify barriers to the cultural change.

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Answer 1: Hands-on or Hands-off Approach
In order to advice Bison in relation to adopting an appropriate business approach, it is
important to identify the key characteristics of MeatPack. The company is a 27 years old
food processing business with headquarters situated in Sydney, Australia. The corporation
operates in the meat processing industry and includes areas like fresh soups and prepared
meals. The corporation is lead and managed by the CEO and founder, Mr Derek Bison, who
is working as the fourth generation from the family. The company reported a record sales of
AUD$300 million in 2013, and its strategic goal is to become a 1 billion dollar corporation by
2020. It is important for leaders to create a culture in the workplace where employees know
that the achievement of organisational goals is most important (Lorinkova and Perry, 2017).
This culture will enable employees to understand the key factors which they should focus on
in order to accomplish corporate objectives. The employees must have knowledge about
the mission and vision statement of the company, and they should realise what are the key
values of the corporation. Without alignment between the goals of the company and its
employees, it becomes difficult for them to work towards achieving the common objectives
of the company. The employees should clearly understand their role in the company and
they should work dedicatedly towards achieving common goals. The leader should adopt a
suitable business approach in the company to ensure that appropriate policies are
implemented in the organisation to achieve the strategic goals of the enterprise (Valsania,
Moriano and Molero, 2016).
The hands-on approach is not suitable for Bison because the key characteristics of this
leadership approach are focused on controlling, judging, threatening and criticising
employees in order to achieve organisational goals. On the contrary, the hands-off approach
is focused on handling employees with minimum supervision (Gissener and Wong, 2016). In
the case of MeatPack, it is important that Bison must assess the needs of its employees
before managing and directing them. For example, some employees in the company require
little supervision since they have aligned their operations with corporate goals and they are
self-motivated to achieve their targets. On the other hand, there are some employees who
are not able to think critically in complex situations, and they are needed to be managed by
the employees to ensure that they perform effectively. However, many times employees did