Drax Company: Leadership, Operation Management, and Knowledge Management

This report analyzes the implications of leading and managing organizational resources in Drax Company, focusing on leadership, operation management, and knowledge management. It includes a SWOT analysis, recommendations for growth, and the role of finance and human resource management.

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Drax Company Ltd.

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Executive Summary
Drax Company wants to become a learning organization and wants to expand for the growth and
expansion of the business in market. The areas which are focused for learning and management
of organizational resources include the issues of leadership, operation management, change in
the skills, knowledge management and human resource management. The various theories are
included in the report for improving the performance with the help of effective leadership and
financial analysis for effective decision making. It is analyzed that the process and systems must
be updated for the effective utilization of resources. In order to add value in the systems and
improving the performance of the business, managing resources it is important factor for the
organization. SWOT-analysis helps the Drax Company for the immediate and incremental
changes in the business and analyzing the new business opportunities. SCM is vital for
interacting with the other teams like marketing, sales, human resources, and finance and
accounting. Various recommendations were provided to Drax company for the growth in the
market. they can adopt the innocation practice for the satisfaction of the customers and updated
echnology in systems will helps the company in generating revenue and make the successful
position in future.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................3
SWOT Analysis...............................................................................................................................4
Leadership....................................................................................................................................5
Operation management................................................................................................................6
Knowledge management and information technology................................................................6
Finance.........................................................................................................................................7
Human resource management......................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Drax Group is a public limited company that generates electric power and it was founded in
2005. Its headquarter is in Drax, North Yorkshire, England. The products are electrical power
and by-products of power products. In Drax group, the number of employees is 2,558 and its net
income is worth 20.2 million pounds. The key asset of Drax Group is Drax power station. Drax
power station is responsible for providing 12% or renewable power to UK (Cummings and
Worley, 2014). Their business is to enable a zero-carbon and low-cost energy future. The aim of
the company is to be leader in providing power system stability They want to build a long-term
future for biomass as they believe that biomass can deliver carbon-negative dispatchable
renewable energy. In this report, the implications of leading and managing the organizational
resources will in included which are required for introducing new products and services after
adopting emerging technologies. In order to improve the information, analysis will be done for
the integration between management accounting, operation, and leadership (Stewart, 2007). The
theories will be discussed which helps in improving the performance of the business. For the
furture growth in the market, recommendations will be provided for the Drax company in order
to make the effective decisions and nake the business successful.

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Analysis
In an organization, it is necessary to manage the resources for improving the performance of the
business. Resources that are to be managed in Drax group are human resources, time resources,
financial resources, and asset management. In this the integrated approach will critically assess
the relationship between leadership, operation management, finance, and information systems.
Leadership is emphasized in improving the performance work system and managing the change
and innovation in business. in operation management the issues will be addresses which are
related the location, process layout, quality, capacity management and management of inventory
(Hersey, et al., 2007).
Operation management includes the activities which help in creating value and transform the input into
output for producing final goods. Operational management includes the functions of marketing,
accounting, and operations. The decision areas which are required in operation management is the
designing of goods and services. It is essential for the manager of operations to manage the quality for
customer satisfaction. The main strategy must be implemented for the location and layout of the
operations (Stevenson, et al., 2007). Supply chain management and inventory management are the
essential factor in operation management which helps in improving the performance.
SWOT Analysis
In strategic planning and managing the resources, SWOT analysis plays a vital role in the Drax
group. In order to maintain a dominant position in market, SWOT analysis helps in improving
the performance of the organization. It is essential for business to maintain interactive processes
and coordination in various departments like finance, operations, strategic planning. SWOT
analysis is essential for effective leadership. The internal strategic factors include strengths and
weaknesses. the strength of Drax group includes that it has a strong free cash flow which
provides the resources in hands to expand the project (Bull, et al., 2016). In Drax group, the
automation of different activities helps in enabling the consistency in quality of products. they
had made a position in entering into new market and making position in new market. they
provide the training and learning program to employees for the highly skilled workforce.
Weaknesses of Drax group

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It is analyzed that the Drax group requires the investment in updating new technology for
integrating the new process. Drax group are unable to create success outside their business and
face challenges in moving to new segment products. The company is facing the challenge of new
entrants in the segment and losing the market share. They have a high attrition rate in workforce.
Opportunities of Drax group
Drax Group has an opportunity be decreasing cost of transportation by lowering the shipping
costs. Development in market can help Drax group in leading for dilution of competitor’s
advantage. In order to open up in new market, company can adopt the new trends in consumer
behavior. It helps in building new revenue streams and diversify the categories of products.
adoption of new technology helps in providing an opportunity for practicing differentiated
pricing strategy in the new market (Jacobs, et al., 2004). it helps the Drax group in maintaining
loyal customers with the effective services and value-oriented proposition can help in luring new
customers.
Threats of Drax group
In different countries the liability laws are different and the Drax group is exposed to follow the
change in policies in a different market. in the profitability of the company, rising raw material is
a threat to the company. It is a threat that company is not able to serve innovative products to
customers. Increase in trend of isolationism helps in leading but the reaction of other government
negatively impacts on the international sales of the company (King and Marks, 2008).
Leadership
Drax services follow the principles of leadership which includes to have vision, always be open
and approachable, work together to be stronger and drive the future. These principles of
leadership helps Drax technologies and services in the growth and creative expansion of the
business as it helps in relating to the ambidexterity as its leadership model includes the
transactional leadership. Leadership is essential for emerging technologies in the business. in
order to implement the leadership in business, exploitation and exploration is required. For
managing the growth in business, exploration helps in discovering the new knowledge,
opportunities and resources. Strategic leadership is required in Drax technologies for managing
the activities. In transformational management, the different approaches are included in dealing

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with creativity and productivity. The leaders support the change and admire the impact of
leadership skills. Leadership helps in changing the process and various strategies of the business
and Leadership helps in facilitating the process of the Drax group. Change in culture of the
organization includes the behavior, system, processes and policies of the business. Leadership
will help the Drax group in the ideas, goals, values and aspirations of the organization.
The value-based initiative helps in analyzing the various negative implications in the company.
Managerial leadership helps in supervising, association and gathering information (Neely, 2007).
In case of value-based authority, the various advance consistent adhere through the disciple and
prizes. It helps in motivating the employees to perform the activities. In Drax group, the value-
based methodology helps in changing the future and maintain the effective use of the resources.
For the productivity and creativity, relational and shared leadership helps an individual to
maintain a level. In case of relationship-based leadership, people focus on employees and focus
on aims, personalities, behavior, and relative assessment of the relationship. Leadership helps in
improving the performance and making the effective utilization of resources. It is necessary to
maintain good communication with the team. Leadership is essential for the implication of
leading and managing the organizational resources as it will help in leading the team and making
them aware of the change and introduction of the new product or service in the business. It is
essential for making effective decisions and communicates with the employees. Leaders must
choose the effective techniques and strategy to satisfy the employees for improving their
performance.
Operation management
The operations of Drax group includes the business of power generation and system services
which is Drax power station as it is the biggest renewable generator in the UK. Drax alos
includes the biomass production which having daldowir fuel plant and Drax biomass. Nect
operaion includes the B2B energy suppy and solutions with opus energy and haven power. Drax
group faces the issues and challenges in the management of operations. Operation management
includes the inefficiencies in the projects which can be budgeting, quality of products, and
reacting to the various issues with effective planning. Drax Group has identified the major
problem which is communication between teams.

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Change in the process of organization in Drax group helps in making the process effective and
fast for generating the power and services. it is beneficial for the Drax group to change the
operation process and in emerging technologies the effective operations is required and proper
traning must be provided to the employees to work on the changed technology.
In performing the activities, productive communication helps in acquiring relevant information,
combining tasks, and coordinate with efforts. The operation manager considers the creation and
innovation for the goods and services. In order to manage the function of business, management
is responsible for planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling the resources which are
required for producing the goods and services of the company (Hoch and Kozlowski, 2014). It is
considered as the core function of the company as resources are required to produce the goods in
Drax group. Operation management is considered as the transformational role which helps in
converting the inputs into outputs in Drax operations. It helps in converting the raw material into
the final products. In organization, the manufacturing and service operation is performed in the
supply chain management process. It is helpful the process of supply chain and making the
process easy (Tiwana, 2000). In Drax operation in business includes the forecasting the
activities, scheduling, assuring quality, planning capacity and managing the inventories. Drax
consider the effective operation for converting the energies and providing the services to
consumers. Drax includes the flexible and responsive operations for generating the units and
converting the biomass.
Knowledge management and information technology
Drax includes the deployment of smart meter technology as it helps in enabling the
oppurtunities. DRAX has implemented the new information systems for the development of B2B
energy supply for the operation and it helps in adding the 28 million pound of capital
expenditure to intangible assests. Knowledge management helps the drax in integration of
information and resources in the organization. It helped in communicating the right knowledge
and information about the task of getting the task done correctly on time. It helped in improving
the performance and efficiency of the organization. It is considered that tacit knowledge are
structured in four areas: wisdom, knowledge, data, and information. the data must be collected
and analyzed for making the effective information that can be shared in documentation and it is
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((Bauer, et al., 2012). When all the information and knowledge are shared effectively it is
integrated into the organization for considering it as wisdom. The role played by knowledge
management in Drax is for ensuring to provide the knowledge and information about the task in
the organization for improving time management and efficiency as it is related to the exploitive
side of ambidexterity. Information systems helped the management of Drax in enabling the
structure of the organization. In order to establish and enhance the connection with workflow in
the various tasks, cohesive usage helps the employees in making the effective use of information
systems (Copperman, et al., 2004). A different information system is used by the company for
the optimum utilization of the resources. Implementation of management information system
helps in making effective decisions for the business. In order to achieve a competitive advantage,
Drax group must adopt the MIS software for making the process convenient for the employees.
Finance
In the organization, comprehensive income is essential and management considers the gross
profit margins. Finance is required for emerging the technologies in Drax. For the
implementation of advanced technologies it is necessary to allocate the budget for different
activities. It is necessary for developing the methodology for managing the different changes in
the organization. In case of finance, company adopts the consistent and defines the approaches
for change management. the implementation of financial management techniques helps in
changing the business performance (Han and part, 2009). It is necessary to consider the various
factors in finance for allocating the cost and prices of the products. Analysis of finance helps the
management in providing the reports to the upper management and they can also schedule the
work of the organizations according to the availability of the finance. Change management must
be considered for building a culture for continuous improvement in the process and performing
the activities. It is essential in change management to consider the employees and their opinion
for directly improving their performance and making the strategic decision for the changes in the
management (Eacott, 2015). it helps in empowering the employees of the organization and
making them aware of the mission and vision of the company as it is directly linked with the
exploitive side of the business. Implementation of emerging technologies will help the Drax
group in increasing the profits and revenue by increasing the productivity.

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Human resource management
In Drax Company, it is necessary for the management to consider, systems and process issues. In
order to achieve explotation and exploration, Drax must consider the continuous feedback from
employees. open culture can help the comoany in achieiving exploitation and exploration. Drax
group can take a move from a single voice to a multi voice organization and considering the
feedback can helps in making the processes more effective and efficient which is considered as
exploitative in nature. In an organization, work to employees must be given with responsibility
and encouraging them for adopting the innovation and creativity and implement it for effective
decisions. All the information and training helps an individual to perform the task effectively
(Cascio, 2015).
Conclusion
In order to conclude the report, it is essential in the Drax group to balance the exploitation and
exploration for implementing the leadership model in the organization. A leader in an
organization helps in determining the growth and expansion of the Drax Group. Transactional
and transformational leadership style helps in implementing the emerging technologies and
increasing the performance of the business in the market. It helps in directing the leader to adopt
innovation and creativity. In changing the culture and management, transformational help in
making a relation with the employees and making a positive effect on the environment. In the
scope of leadership, ambidexterity helps in completing the task and activities. It is essential for a
leader to adopt the different leadership style which is required in business to lead the teams for
performing the work on time (Stewart, 2007). In order to change the culture in the organization,
employees must accept the change and adhocracy and making the market culture effective to
work together. It is essential to manage human resource management to maintain the relationship
with employees and must ensure that any change in the culture and management must not
hamper the quality of the products and services. Operation management is affected with the
communication, it is crucial to consider the effective communication with the stakeholders of the
company to maintain a good relationship with them to increase the profitability. In case of
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the data into relevant information for wisdom. Wisdom helps in improving the integration and
efficiency of the organization.
Recommendation
Drax Company must adopt the management style in the business for assisting the change in the
culture of the company. The effective culture which is effective for the organization is an open
culture, adhocracy, and market culture (Anupindi, et al., 2006). For managing and leading the
business, Drax group can adopt an internship practice. In order to make the learning
organization, management must hire experts in their fields. it is necessary for the company to
consider the long term objectives. In order to acquire the services, company must use the
expenditure for outsourcing in order to become viable and integrating the company for
improving efficiency (Huan, et al., 2004). Drax group must consider the profits for futher
investment as this measure will help the company in becoming the ambidextrous architectural
firm in the market. It is recommended to Drax Comoany to implement the effective strategy for
the satisfaction of employees. For that they can offer the opportunities for learning and their long
term goals.

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