Effectiveness of work and organisation at Tesla

People and
Organizations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Effectiveness of work and organisation at Tesla ............................................................................1
1) Organisational context.......................................................................................................1
2. The whole organisation......................................................................................................2
3) Groups and teams...............................................................................................................4
4) The individual level............................................................................................................4
PART 2............................................................................................................................................5
Reflection on group work ...............................................................................................................5
Kolb's Learning Cycle............................................................................................................5
PART 3............................................................................................................................................8
Personal reflection on employment ................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisation is a basically a group of people who work together in a collaboration and
with coordination in order to attain some mutual goals and objectives. People basically represent
the individuals who work for an organisation and are directly or indirectly associated with the
functions and operations of a company (Davis, 2019). This assignment is based on Tesla Plc and
includes discussion about effectiveness of its work and organisation. For that purpose, a
discussion about impact of globalisation, together with rational and social organisation, power
and politics, governance, organisational culture and organisational leadership. Beside this,
discussion about group teams and individual motivation and job design is also included in this
assignment. At last, a reflection on group work and personal reflection on employment also form
a part of this assignment.
PART 1
Effectiveness of work and organisation at Tesla
Tesla is a well known American electric vehicle and clean energy company having its
headquarter in California, U.S. Tesla is having specialisation in electric vehicle manufacturing
and battery energy storage and also operates a multiple production and assemble plants
(Atanassova, 2019). A discussion about effectiveness of work and organisation at Tesla is
provided below:
1) Organisational context
Globalisation is a process that allow companies to gain access and reach to a new and
wider market area and also enhance the diffusion of technologies across the world. Thus,
globalisation lead to positive impact on Tesla as it has levered its production unit to develop and
manufacture advanced products and can also make use of effective channels of of
communication in order to have better interaction with customers across the world (Business
Strategy: Tesla Motors, 2020). Beside this, globalisation has also allowed Tesla to expand its
business operations across different countries of world thus, facilitates an access and reach to a
larger number of customer base. Thus, it can be evaluated that globalisation has resulted in
betterment of business operations and production function of Tesla through providing assess to
more efficient and advance technology to produce the most advanced and innovative form of
electric vehicle and power storage systems. But beside these positive impacts, globalisation has
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also increased the level the competition for Tesla thus, lead to higher pressure on this
organisation to indulge extensively into research and development to produce superior and
exclusive electric vehicles to face competition from international organisation to attract a larger
number of customer at global level.
2. The whole organisation
The rational and social organisation
The rational organisation is mainly associated with a company that makes use of various
business tool for achieving a definable goals or set of objectives. Beside this, a Rational
organisation makes use of formal structure to define role and responsibility of each member and
employee of the organisation. Social organisation are basically the representative of relationship
between individuals and social groups (The Seven Characteristics of Rational Social
Organization, 2020). Tesla is rational social organization that rationally organize social groups to
efficiently accomplish goals creates that includes creation of bureaucratic structures,
Distinctive social institutions wherein different areas of human experience produce their own
specialized bureaucracies to perform more effectively to achieve the desired set of goals
(Chapman and White, 2019). Further, Tesla is also having all the characteristics of a rational
social organisation that includes hierarchy of authority to enforce rules and procedures together
with high level of technical competences and specialised tasks which lead better efficiency in
this organisation.
Power and Politics
Power is basically a representative the level of influence and capacity of a leader or top
authority to motivate and influence its subordinates to conduct a work as per their wish and
desires. On the other hand, politics is mainly associated with effective use of power and other
social networking channels within the organisation to achieve and attain the possible
modification and changes that benefits the organisation. In CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk is a highly
powerful and extremely influential person having all the capabilities and skills to motivate and
guide its employees (Skinner, 2019). Use of Expert power that is primary taxonomy of social
power is made by Elon Musk together with his advanced knowledge in engineering as well as
business and social interaction that makes him able to create a positive and interactive workplace
environment. Beyond this, use of inspirational appeals and reward power is made by CEO and
leader of Tesla to motivate the engineers to have better innovation and find new and superiors
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