Organisational Theory and Practice

Organisational Theory and
Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
A. The management styles and state the principle and functions of management......................3
B. Organisational Structure to Achieve High Performance and Organisational Culture...........4
C. The leadership styles of CEO of that firm to enhance the organisational performance of the
organisation.................................................................................................................................5
D. Effects of Power, Influence and Conflicts of Unilever..........................................................6
E. Motivation theory used by the Unilever's...............................................................................7
F. Corporate Example.................................................................................................................9
RECOMENDATIONS....................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In an organisation, managing of all together on a common platform, integrating
employees of the organisation in one place consider as an art. For effective management it is
important that the leader of the organisation take control of overall performing of the
organisation in way that their organisation through their assign tasks, duties and management can
reflect their productivity (Valmohammadi, and Ahmadi, 2015). Thus management plays a
significant role in strengthening the bond among the employees and unite their effort at the
centre of the organisation. For better understand the different styles of management and how
much effective role they play in an organisation. For this purpose the chosen organisation is
Unilever and the CEO of the organisation is Alan Jope was appointed in January 2019. Company
give thrust on sustainable business which derives superior performance and creating long term
values for the stakeholders of the company.
Main Body
A. The management styles and state the principle and functions of management
In every organisation, leader's have their unique style of handling their juniors. This style
is called Management Style which is used by the superior in the company. It is highly depend on
their culture and working condition (Schatzki, 2017). This may also be affected by the nature and
mindset of their employees. At Unilever, Alan Jope, is the Chief executive officer of the
company. He has adopted Democratic Style to lead the company. He took this decision due to his
realisation that for him to achieve his goals, it is important to consider the opinions of other
employees of his task force. Their valuable contribution is important for the success of the
organisation. So, he organises an open form and ensured that each and every employee's voiced
their opinion. This aid the company to a build healthy and effective communication between
employee's and the management. He even make sure that everyone is well equipped with all the
principles set by him and embraced appropriately as they defines their business integrity. Some
of their principles includes their ethical standards, clear policies, guidelines, their retailed
learning material and the powerful procedures. The company even see to it, that the company's
third party compliance programs are regularly monitored. This help Unilever, to prevent, identify
and be able to timely correct them on the time of arrival. These principles provides them the
assurance that they are following all the laws, thereby protecting their brand. Along with this,

they even ensure that they proceed in the right direction while ensuring they directly as well as
indirectly don't harm their people and the environment that are vital for their existence and even
are essential contribution for their long term success. The CEO also make use of variety of
Function in order to be able to achieve their desired objective efficiently. They utilize
comprehensive list of the function that helps them to improve their performance, their
productivity and gain Competitive advantage in their industry. This list mainly include designing
their product and services by the management by continuously identifying the challenges and
addressing them by continuously innovating their offerings. They even focus on Quality
management in order to ensure that their customer's are highly satisfied with their product as
well as service quality. Adding to this, their strategies related with job designed and managing
employees, locations are cost effective and most important monitoring them at every stage
(Otoo, 2019). This helps them to reach their target market and even increase their presence at
large.
B. Organisational Structure to Achieve High Performance and Organisational Culture
Unilever follows Divisional Structure in order to achieve higher performance in the
overall performing of the organisation. An organisation structure defines the arrangement and
systems that have used to build and interconnect between various organizational components,
like offices, leaders and teams etc. (Mostafa, and et. al., 2015). This type of structure follows
when a company grows into successful product lines in different part of the world and therefore
the organisation divide into sub divisions or units on the basis of products, brand or may be on
the basis of geographical area. The CEO of Unilever company focuses on product wise
divisional as the company have different categories of their products like; food, home-care
products, personal products etc. which also have sub categories of them. Unilever is one of the
leading consumer goods company or FMCG that have an organizational structure which suitably
supports diversified global operation in its organisation. Therefore such organisational structure
enable the company to grow despite of complexity in the global operations.
Since the company operate on global level therefore the employees of Unilever progress linked
with their organisational culture and the different policies they have and implement them over
time. As Unilever is a integrated company therefore any changes in at any level of the
organisation could affect the development areas of the company. Unilever is successful because