Managing Organizations and Leading People: Analysis of Organizational Culture, Power and Politics, Agile Ways of Working, and Change Management

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Executive summary
The purpose of this report is to analyze the organizational culture. It analyzes the cultural
webs of Drax services, Drax technology and reintegrated company. The report shows the ways in
which the dimensions of the web would influence positive culture in the company with the use of
integrated and emerging technologies successfully. The report analyzes the power and politics of
the company and analyzes the ways in which the leadership styles and approaches are distributed
between the Drax services and Drax technology. It analyzes the need for a shared leadership
model and the need to achieve a balance between the exploration and exploitation of the
company. It analyzes the needs and benefits for agile ways of working in the company. It
explores the needs to exploitation and exploration in the business organization. It analyzes the
Drax services and Drax technologies with the use of change Kaleidoscope as a diagnostic tool
and with the use of Kotter change management model; it shows what Drax needs in order to
successfully implement the change procedure. Lastly, the report concludes the report and
provides recommendation for improvements on the basis of the conclusion formed in the report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................4
1.0 Organizational culture...............................................................................................................4
2.0 Power and politics......................................................................................................................6
3.0 Agile ways of working...............................................................................................................8
4.0 Change management................................................................................................................10
4.1 Change Kaleidoscope..............................................................................................................10
4.2 Kotter 8 step change process...................................................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
The aim and objective of the report is to critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize the
ways in which the company Drax might be able to effectively integrate the Drax technology in
the Drax services in the business organization in the given business variations and differences of
the business culture and leadership in order to support the future plans of the company. It is
required by the business organization to effective organize and management the process of
change in the organization. The report determines the ways and the stages in which the company
will be able to gain back its market position and acquire market share. The company has
recognized that in order to remain competitive in the market, they need to innovate and have a
better understanding of the customer profile, their needs and preferences. Therefore, the primary
objective of the report is to analyze the ways in which the company will be able to better harness
the advanced and emerging technologies including the Internet of Things, the Artificial
Intelligence and the Machine learning which will enable them to create better and bring in new
innovative products and services for the customers in the market. This will in turn enable the
company to gain market share and increase the customer base in the market. The report analyzes
the cultural web of the integrated company in which it would influence the culture positively. It
analyzes the power and politics of the company through share leadership style. It analyzes the
needs and benefits of agile ways of working in the Drax Company. It determines the change
management of the company with the use of change Kaleidoscope as diagnostic tool and Kotter
8 step change process. Lastly, it concludes the assignment and provides recommendations and
improvement based on the conclusion.

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Analysis
1.0 Organizational culture
The cultural web implies aligning the cultural of the organization along with the strategy that is
to be implemented. Cultural of the organization must be focused on during the periods of
organizational change. According to Hewison and Holden (2016), in many cases the existing
culture becomes inappropriate due to organizational change and hence it might be hindering the
change implementation process. Therefore, the cultural web developed by Gerry Johnson and
Kevan Scholes in the year 1992, can help businesses to expose the cultural assumptions, rituals
and practices and organizes the work in alignment with the organizational elements with one
another.
CULTURAL WEBS Drax services Drax technologies Reintegrated
company
Stories Stories of successful
events of the company
are shared with the
employees who are
passed on to the new
employees.
The Drax technologies
Asset where, amisafe,
AMX and SafeVue and
their details are shared.
The stories and
success events of the
company are kept
alive as it reveals
much about the values
of the company that
can b applied in the
company. This is an
important factor for

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reintegration of
business organization
(Hewison and Holden
2016).
Symbols The Drax service
company logo is used
as a recognizable
expression for the
company.
Each department has
uniforms with the logo
(Bell et al. 2014).
The printed logos on
the uniforms of the
employees, the
corporate building of
the company, cars,
dress code and the
languages are used as
recognizable
expressions for the
reintegrated company.
Power structure Drax services focus
on building
capabilities through
shared leadership
styles. Rewards and
goals are provided
(Thomas 2015).
The employees are given
rewards for better
performance and
penalties for
misconduct.
The reward system of
the company to goals
and objectives, level
of corporation among
the company will
influence positive
culture in the
company.
Organizational Transactional The structure of the The company focuses