Leadership and Management - Assignment

Principles and Practices of Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
COURSEWORK 2...............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................8

COURSEWORK 2
Introduction
There are different factors which affect the success of the organization in which
organizational structure is one of them. It is very important for every growing company because it
provides the guidance and clarity to the management about the various issues within the workplace
(Chand, 2016). It delivers the various advantages to the companies such as promote growth and
diversification, increase the coordination between the different functions of the enterprise, increase
the optimum use of resources, raise employees productivity level and many other things. But to
attain all these things, it is important for the organization to find and select that person who is
having good leadership skills and able to lead the group of people (Importance of Leadership,
2016). The same thing happens with PepsiCo Company which wants to bring the changes in the
existing organizational structure and make it more flexible. The intention behind making
modifications in the structure is to develop a firm in such as way so that it can be easy to take
competitive advantages in highly competitive market. In future, the flexible organizational structure
deliver various benefits to PepsiCo and make him market leader. The present study will cover
several leadership skills and core competencies that will be needed the company at the time of
leading the organizational structure change (Rothwell, 2011).
Most essential leadership skills and competencies for PepsiCo
Jorge Rubio is a director of CSI (Consumer Strategic Insights) is changing his part of
PepsiCo Foods Mexico (PFM) in a more flexible style of organization. Company has developed a
centre which is just like to Google corporate centre (Wong, Mahmud and Omar, 2015). The aim
behind establishing this centre is to motivate the employees to bring the new innovation in the
existing products and make it more effective and according to the customer expectations . But after
some time, Jorge Rubio decided to bring the changes in the organizational structure and make it
more flexible and proactive (AlMazrouei and Zacca, 2015). In this direction, he has decided to
made the modifications in the leaderships styles so that the initiation of the changes can be carried
out in effective manner. Jorge Rubio think that the flexible organizational structure will raise the
productivity level of the staff and influence them to bring the new ideas and innovation for the
current products and services (Krogh, Nonaka and Rechsteiner, 2012). For this, it has necessary to
changed the leadership styles as per the situation and adopt different core competencies. With the
help of this, it can be easy to manage the modifications within the organizational structure of
PepsiCo. It will make the organization an independent market research firm in the market place and
help in achieve long and short term objectives (Hakanen and van Dierendonck, 2013).