Managing Organization and Leading People

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MANAGING ORGANZIATION AND LEADING PEOPLE
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Introduction
Drax Company in its past year has considerable performed well (Atzori, Iera and
Morabito 2013). However, the company Drax is in need for innovation. In order to comply with
the changing business environment and scenario it wishes to offer range of products and services
that meets to the needs and demands of the customers. In order to perform efficiently and
effectively, it needs to exploit the emerging technology and gain back its position in the market.
According to Becker and Gerhart (2016), in order to remain competitive and grow the company
needs to undertake and implement ways to innovate its products and services. It needs to better
understand the customers and exploit the emerging technologies like Internet of Things,
Artificial Intelligence, in order to develop new products and services. The purpose of this
assignment is to critically analyze the implication of LMOR in introducing the products and
services by adapting to the emerging technologies. It determines the changing skills required, the
capabilities and knowledge management, the operations management, the human resource
management and leadership required by the company.
Discussion
Changing skills requirement:
According to Becker and Gerhart (2016), implementing the emerging technologies
require high amount of skills and knowledge. Therefore, the company is needed to recruit the
right people with the right talents and at the right time. The company needs to align the skills of
the present information technology professionals with the internet of things. As mentioned by
Clayton (2019), this is highly challenging as it requires new capabilities and involves changing

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conditions. The lack in the skills of IOT (Internet of Things) is a major cause of concern for the
company. The main challenge of adapting the technology is using IOT effectively. For Data
Analytic, skilled engineers, architects and analytics are required as it comes with huge amount of
data which is needed to be protected and analyzed effectively. According to Da Xu, He and Li
(2014), the skills required are knowledge about the data ethics and the privacy policy, cyber
security analysis, vulnerability assessment, requires skills to securely manage data. The data and
information that is collected though the internet of things must be turned into auctioned
intelligence for the organization. Therefore, the business organization needs to recruit skilled
workers and professionals who possess strong knowledge and skills in the business intelligence.
The User Interface and User Experience needs to create interfaces in an effective and user
friendly manner. The skills and knowledge required for UI and UX Design is responsive Web
design, Service Design (Davis 2013). The critical 21C skills include collaboration and teamwork,
creativity and ability to new things, critical thinking and problem solving ability. The 4IR, skills
include knowledge about advanced materials, autonomous transport, robotics and artificial
intelligence. They must have knowledge and skills of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The employees and workers have must have knowledge about internet of everything such as
smarter machins with access to data and other networking opportunities.
Capabilities / Knowledge Management
As mentioned by Delaney and Huselid (2016), the present knowledge and capabilities
present in the organization requires to be managed effectively in the business organization. The
knowledge management is the process which involves acquiring, accumulation, generating and
properly utilizing the knowledge present in the company for its benefits. By effectively

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managing the existing talent and knowledge present in the organization, it can gain a competitive
edge for growth and business expansion in a highly globalized competitive economy. As stated
by Delaney and Huselid (2016), the capability and knowledge management is a systematic
process which involving collecting, storing, distributing and utilizing the knowledge, talents and
skills of the individuals in the organization. The main motive of managing the knowledge and
talent of the organization is to acquire the right knowledge with the right people and at the right
time. The explicit and implicit knowledge needs to be tackled effectively. The management of
the organization must take the responsibility to provide outmost support and guidance for
managing the talent and knowledge of the organization. It needs to provide culture and other
technical support for implementing the knowledge management skills and practices of the
company. In other words, the management needs to provide the employees of the organization
with correct tools and machinery to execute the activities and operations of the business in an
effective manner. According to Gittell, Seidner and Wimbush, (2014), the process includes
identifying the needs of the knowledge, determining the knowledge/skills assets, generating the
required knowledge, preserving the existing knowledge, giving access to the collective
knowledge to every employee, utilizing the knowledge and acquiring feedback on the knowledge
management. The knowledge management is the key for driving digital transformation.
Several initiatives have been taken by the company to reduce the risk of future fire
incidents and improve the plant safety and operator. The company has also taken standard
approach towards safety and compliance. It has launched a one safe Drax toolkit for the safety
managers at the company (Davis 2013). The company has adapted a full safety audit and
maintained a safety culture within the organization.