HRM&D in a Global Context

HRM&D in a Global
Context

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1. Brief explanation of importance of JustEat's founding culture to its success as well as
discussion on potential implications for merger with Takeaway.com.........................................1
2. Looking towards new JustEat- Takeaway.com design and its business model, the ways it
align with ideas/theories about the structure along with evolution of organisation....................3
3. The challenges that JustEat- Takeaway will encounter in next couple of years and why.......4
4. Some recommendations about what HR group might do for facilitating communication
addition to feeling of unification among the two entities............................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is termed to the practice to effective manage people for the
purpose of attaining better performances. Similarly, human resource development is said to a
framework that assist manpower to develop abilities, skills and knowledge that in turn improves
effectiveness of institutions (Baimenov and Liverakos, 2019). The assessment is prepared on Just
Eat and Takeaway.com food delivery tie-up. The merger of the companies is set for creating the
largest and popular online food delivery groups across the world. The merger marks latest stage
of consolidation in takeaway market.
The assessment covers evaluation of importance of founding culture to organisational
success and potential implications for merger on other entity. It also focuses on organisational
design, business model and the ways these align with ideas about structure and evolution of
company. Further, it includes potential challenges that will be encountered by the merger
companies in coming years. At last, some recommendations are provided about what HR group
might do for facilitating communicate and unification among the two firms.
MAIN BODY
1. Brief explanation of importance of JustEat's founding culture to its success as well as
discussion on potential implications for merger with Takeaway.com
Organisational culture refers to collection of practices, values, expectations and hence
forth which directs addition to inform actions of all department or team members. When an
entity has strong culture then it keeps its manpower actively as well as passionately engaged. A
founding culture creates and supports values, objectives, mission, vision and principles that
influences risk taking level, financial growth, innovation and communication that results in
attaining success (Black, Warhurst and Corlett, 2017). In case with JustEat, the company have
founding culture which is mirror for the founders. In other words, founder inspired culture
reflects values, personality, strengths and values of the founder and takes the business towards
success. It is a mission driven entity that is defined by the beliefs and actions of the founder. It
forms positive behaviour among employees without direction and promotes values across the
entity.
As per views of Hitchcock (2019), it is evaluated that founding culture of JustEat is
important as it contributes widely in making the business successful. It is the cohesion which
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holds all its people together and aligning their purposes with organisational objectives. The
cultural type is important for the business as it transform manpower into advocates. The culture
celebrates contribution, efforts and participation of employees that offers accomplishment sense
among them and motivates them to take the company towards success. Moreover, it plays
important role in directing employees to respond through expanding into traditional business of
other company and allowing its people to fulfil orders by using own delivery fleet addition to
organisation's courier network.
According to Bozer and Delegach (2019), it has been evaluated that founding culture of
JustEat have direct impact of founder's ideas and strategies on performance as well as well being
of employees. Healthy culture addresses all those areas which can act as roadblocks in success of
business. The culture helps in improving workflows addition to guides the process of making
decision. Having clear culture which unifies staff members together with promotes organised
work structures leads to making the business more successful.
Merger refers to an agreement which unites two current business into one new
organisation. It is a way for entity to expand its reach, gain market share together with expanding
into new segment. Moreover, it is perceived that merger is done for reducing operations cost,
unite common products, gaining market share, increasing profits as well as growing revenues
(Brandl, Bos-Nehles and Aust, 2018). In context to Takeaway.com and Just Eat, main purpose of
merger is to create largest online food delivery business, surpassing rivals and making
sustainable position in fast growing sector. The merger with Takeaway.com, there are high
chances of success for JustEat. It implies that the merger creates one of leading largest food
delivery business in increasingly consolidated industry. The merged companies are significant
rival for other food delivery business and become dominant force in the sector. Through the
merger with Takeaway.com, JustEat have high chances to operate on verge of productivity and
profitability. It also requires large infusions of financial and other resources for survival.
Moreover, this creates largest business in online food delivery market with strategic vision,
leading positions in attractive markets, scale as well as diversified geographic presence.
The merger implies that JustEat is able to create more reps along with enhances
databases that leads to greater customer service satisfaction. Furthermore, the company
experiences number of changes in its action, behaviour and performance. It plays major role in
activities of entity and have huge economic and emotional impact son employees (Collings,
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