Organizational Strategy & Leadership Assignment
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1 Organizational Strategy & LeadershipName:Course Professor’s nameUniversity nameCity, StateDate of submissionIntroduction
2BHP BillitonBHP Billiton is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining company that is based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is listed in the Australian stock exchange and the London stock exchange and is the second largest mining company in the world based on revenues. In 2017, its revenue hit $38.28 billion dollars while the operating income was $ 11.753 billion dollars. The net income in the same years was $6.222 billion dollars. It operates in the mining and metal industry and has been the dominant player in this industry since 2001 after the merger between BHP and Billiton. Its parent organization is the BHP Billiton group and has employed more than 65,000 employees. Although its main operations and its headquarters are in Melbourne Australia (Aarons, Ehrhart, and Hurlburt, 2015). It operates as a multinational in various other continent like Europe and the Americas. Notable people in the organization include; CEO, Andrew Stewart Mackenzie who was appointed in 2013. Its stock and share operate under the tag BLT in both the London and the Australian stock markets. Organizational structureBHP operates like any other organization that has structural hierarchy as an organization. It's led by the board of directors who include both the executive and the non-executive directors. The organizational operations is led by the CEO who is deputized by various managers and directors in such departments as operations, finance, procurement and more. The managers head the departments and have departmental heads and mid-level managers to oversee efficient operationsof the business. The flow of authority then ends down to normal business employees who
3amount to over 65,000 worldwide. The company is one of the biggest in terms of employees in Australia (Alvesson and Sveningsson, 2015). Communication in Organization StructureCommunication is generally considered as a process that occurs between members of a social community. Being a process, communication within organizations consists of dynamic activity, in a certain way in constant flow, but that maintains a certain degree of structure identification.However, it must be considered that this structure is not static but changing and that it adjusts according to the development of the organizations. The collectivities in which communication within organizations takes place are typically considered as systems. A system is composed of a series of interdependent activities, which, when integrated, form a specific set of objectives(Bolman, and Deal, 2017).Therefore, communication in organizations is considered as a process that takes place within a specific system of interrelated activities. The communication between the members of an organization involves the creation, exchange (reception and sending), process and storage of messages.Organizational communication is understood as a set of techniques and activities aimed at facilitating and streamlining the flow of messages that occur between the members of the organization, between the organization and its environment, or influencing opinions, skills and behaviors of the internal and external public of the organization, all in order that the latter meets the objectives better and faster.
4For the function of communication to be effective inside and outside the organization, it must be:Open: Its main objective is to communicate with the outside world and send organizational messages to the internal and external public.Evaluative: It is the instantaneous communication that is generated within an organization.Flexible: Its purpose is to allow a timely communication between formal and organized.Multidirectional: Organizational communication must flow in all directions: top to bottom, bottom to top, cross, internal, external among others.Instrumented: The communication uses tools, supports, devices; the malfunction of organizationsis explained through the information circulating within it, and that does not arrive at the right time, nor use the appropriate structures for communication to be effective.Organizational communication is observed in five perspectives:In BHP, the organization communication works in the following five perspectives,Internal communication: It is the one that is carried out within an organization, to maintain the good relations between the members of the company through the circulation of messages, which are sent through the different media, to provide communication, union, and motivation, for the fulfillment of the objectives and goals (Bortolotti, Boscari, and Danese, 2015).
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