Impact of Globalisation, Power, Politics and Culture of Tesla

People and
Organization

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Impact of Globalisation ..............................................................................................................3
Power, Politics and Culture of Tesla...........................................................................................4
Motivation and Job design..........................................................................................................5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
Reflection on Group work...........................................................................................................6
PART 3............................................................................................................................................9
Personal reflection on Employment............................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisation is a place where number of individuals work for attaining common goals
and objectives. It has number of features or factors which distinguish itself from number of other
companies such as unique cultures of different entities, people associated with the firm and many
other factors. One of the most important asset of business are their workforce, the personnels
who execute all plans and strategies of entity in order to earn enough profits and become
efficient to survive in external environment. In this report Tesla is taken into consideration which
is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company (Uhl-Bien, and Arena, 2017). Tesla is
situated in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 2003 by Elon Musk and few others. The
entity deals in automotive industry developing electric vehicles for potential customers. This
assignment is divided into three parts where in first part emphasis about the leadership style,
culture and employees of Tesla. Next two parts are reflective report on group work which is
undertaken and performed by the individuals for gaining knowledge about Tesla. Finally a
reflection report is made on the employees and understanding developed at the time of
performing this module of people and organisation.
PART 1
Impact of Globalisation
Globalisation is basically spreading the operations in international borders and making
sales and purchase transaction outside domestic market. This is a process of rendering
competitive advantage to companies as they can reach to wider customers and render their
products and services to larger marketplace. Globalisation has number of benefits associated
with it helping businesses in reducing their cost and earning higher profits as several cross border
taxes and tariffs are removed and that cost can be utilized in more profitable segment (Chatman,
and Goncalo, 2015). Globalisation is a social, cultural, political and legal phenomena, as it leads
to have interaction to higher and broader population. Culturally it represents exchange of ideas,
values and ethics. In referred to political factor by shifting attention to intergovernmental
organisations. And legally, it has altered number of international laws and regulations. It has
huge and very prominent impact on Tesla, as it is helpful and made trade in international borders
easy. As many laws are made flexible promoting globalisation which helped Tesla to enter new
market. Industry entry barriers are removed, also raw material costs reduced for Tesla as tariffs

and taxes are reduced to some extent and some of them which are applicable while making
transaction internationality are removed. Tesla worked fast and grabbed the opportunity of
moving into international borders enabling entity to earn competitive advantage over others. This
helped in increasing market share, customer base, reducing cost and improving profits and
maximizing figures of earnings. Tesla explore more new opportunities of increasing their
technological advancement, they excel in technological area and move to develop electric cars
which are nature friendly and runs on green energy (Antunes, and Franco, 2016). This
development is made through gaining overall information of industry, preferences of consumers
and their personal abilities to perform their actions in most effective way.
Power, Politics and Culture of Tesla
Rational and social organisation
A rational organisation is defined as a business which is design for achieving and
completing a definable goal or objective. This form of organisation uses formal organisational
structure to conduct their operations, define role of each individual present in company in order
to fulfil all tasks and responsibilities. On the other hand a Social organisation is defined as the
entity which is sole motive is not earning profits but rendering social services to the people who
are unable to live a basic life (Sosik, and Jung, 2018). Basically social entities work for those
people who are unable to survive in the world themselves and do not have abilities to earn their
livelihood. This form of organisation uses informal structure to communicate the roles to
members. Tesla is a formal multinational organisation which lands under category of Rational
organisation. Company uses official and formal formats and structure for operating and
performing all the actions in company.
Culture, Power and Politics
The culture which exist in Tesla is democratic and transformational, company's
management take regular feedbacks from employees and overall workforce and accordingly
make changes as the feedbacks received. Following transformational and democratic cultural
style renders company flexibility and rapid changing work environment which helps in keeping
the employees motivated. Culture is values and structure by which entity response to external
and internal atmosphere. Therefore, keeping flexible culture motivates employees, helps in
increasing their performance and productivity.