Organisational Structures and Culture

Organisational structures and
culture

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
1 Different types of public sector organisational structure..........................................................3
2. Concept of culture applies in the public sector organisations.................................................4
3. Impact and role of central and local government in public services.......................................6
4. Approaches to management styles within the public sector....................................................7
5.Concept of organisational behaviour........................................................................................8
6. Relationship between motivation, organisational behaviour and reflection impacts on
performance in workplace...........................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organisational structure and organisational culture is the behaviour of people in the
organisation. Organisational culture of a business defines the work culture and values of the
management and employees in the organisation. The framework of the firm is the
organisational structure. Kingfisher Plc is a multinational company having its headquarter at
London. It is a retail company.in 1982 this company was founded. It deals in home products
which include home furniture, tools, hardware, appliances etc. This study will discuss
different types of public sector organisational structure and the concept of culture applied to
public organisation. Further it will explain the impact of central and local government in the
public service and also investigate different approaches to management styles in the public
sector. this study will also tell the concept of organisational behaviour and access the
relationship between motivation, organisational behaviour and reflection impacts on the
performance of the employees
1 Different types of public sector organisational structure
Public sector: public sector companies comes under the government whether state, local or
central government and is also owned by them only.
Types of public sector organisational structure:
Civil service protections: civil services are the very important public sector organisation. It
includes civil laws. Its nature is protection that is why it comes under government control only.
Laws are necessary to be there on paper despite of that politicians changes with every election
(Wollmann, 2019.). There are such systems which make difficult to fire that employees also
whose performances are poor.
Military organisational structure: it comes under the public sector organisation. Army, navy,
air force, marines all are comes under this. They have certain guidelines which have to be strictly
followed. Roles are clearly mentioned from bottom level to the top level. It includes officers
which got certain ranks which show their position.
Law enforcement organisational structure:

Law enforcement or police department is another government owned entity. They have same
organisational structure as the military organisation have. Ranking systems are also followed by
them. They all are given training according to their positions and have a particular uniform
which they have to wear when they are at the job. Chief of the police control departments, under
chief comes lieutenant and under lieutenant comes sergeants.
Public school organisational structure:
These organisations are controlled by the government boards and have a principal under
principal there is a vice principal and the under that have the staff of teachers and these people
manage all the daily activities of the school. School teacher also have their own roles and
responsibilities. They get all the benefits which are given by the government. These
organisations are influence by the political decisions.
Postal service organisational structure:
It is the government organisation, federal government are accountable for that and they also itself
do the financial supporting. Postmasters manages the post office. Delivery issues and customer
services issues are fixed. Post office organisational structure is very clear and all the positions
can be seen clearly. It has headquarters, division of areas, districts etc. it has dispatch centres
from which letters or parcels are dispatched. They shift their employees form one office to
another in order to meet the increase and decreased demand. Postmasters gives instructions to
their subordinates for fixing the problems.
College organisational structure:
Universities or colleges are partially or completely funded by the government. Their funding
system is very different form private colleges. Like every public organisation, public college also
have the board of trustees which takes the decisions regarding to the college. Their employee
enjoys the benefits which is provided by the government. It also has principal and lecturers
which complete the department (Panjaitan and et.al., 2019).
2. Concept of culture applies in the public sector organisations
Organisation culture:
Organisation culture is the environment in which the organisation operates. Culture include
values, beliefs, assumptions which are present in the organisation and influence the
organisational activity. Organisation culture of the public sector is influenced by the political
decisions. Organisation culture has three dimensions which are: