Organizational Theory and Practice

Organizational Theory and
Practice
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Table of contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
A) Analyse managerial style of the CEO using Henry Mintzberg’s managerial roles................3
B) Steps taken by CEO to bring change in organization structure and analyze the
organizational culture..................................................................................................................4
C) Leadership Style of the firm...................................................................................................5
D) Examine the effects of conflict, power and influence of the organization............................6
E) Explanation of various types of motivation strategies used at ASOS Plc..............................7
F) Literature and corporate examples to justify the point............................................................9
Recommendations........................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Organization management is the term which describes the processes and the procedures
which helps in assessing the systems of company effectively and efficiently (Tuffour, Gali and
Tuffour, 2019). ASOS Plc is the British online fashion and cosmetic retailer which provides the
customers the products and services significantly.
The report will analyse managerial styles of ASOS Plc. Along with this, organizational
structure and organization culture will help in assessing the company’s form. Leadership style of
the organization will be described. Effects of power influence and conflict of the organization
will be depicted. Types of motivational strategies will be described. Various corporate examples
will be explained.
MAIN BODY
A) Analyse managerial style of the CEO using Henry Mintzberg’s managerial roles
There are various managerial roles which are being described by the Henry Mintzberg and
they are described as follows –
Leader – In the leading role, motivation is being given by the manager who helps in fostering
the work with keeping the positive environment and through this, the manager supports staff and
the employees of the ASOS Plc to offer the staff and the employees the education and the
training programs (Sutan and Vranceanu, 2019). When manager plays the role of a leader
everything is ensured under the supervision and the company’s processes and practices are being
done which makes the work more easy and effective enough to progress further.
Monitor – By being a monitor the manager gathers all the information which is related to the
internal and external business environment of the ASOS Plc (Quaratino and Mazzei, 2018). The
manager in the role of monitor is responsible for assessing and analyzing the information which
is being gathered and through that various problems or issues are also being solved by
identifying the opportunities and the changes which are to be taken place for the longer run.
Spokesman – As a spokesman, the manager represents ASOS Plc and then communicates with
the outside business environment and frames the corporate policies and frames the information
regarding the same with the external parties which is considered important for the company
while taking decisions on large scale.
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Entrepreneur – Manager of ASOS Plc by being an entrepreneur is responsible for the decisions
which are taken by the manager to consider that all the functions are being effectively taken by
the manager being and entrepreneur (Jiang Ananthram and Li, 2018). And through this, the
manger can take different leadership styles and follow theses styles in the course of effective
framework of the company.
Resource Allocator – In the resource allocator role, the manager authorizes and controls the use
of ASOS Plc resources and in this, the manger assigns employees, finances, machines, power
and other resources and activities which are being taken as an important factor for the whole
company and executed within effectively (Tahar and Abdillah, 2021).
Therefore, these are the roles in which the manager of ASOS Plc will be able to play the
major role and through this the core strengths and skills will be analyzed. The manager by
initiating such roles will be able to make the effective way possible through which various other
changes and roles will be identified and in this core strength and the abilities of the manger will
be found.
B) Steps taken by CEO to bring change in organization structure and analyze the organizational
culture
The organization structure of ASOS Plc in order to achieve high performance is analyzed
through the work and the process which organization has framed and through this the company is
being able to make most use of how effective and efficient the procedures are being carried out
for assessing high quality performance and in this the company also measures the key strengths
and the abilities of the growth and developmental perspectives which are being taken by the
company and is impacting on organization on a positive basis (Gipson and et. al., 2017).
ASOS Plc has multi – sided business model in which they have two interdependent
customers segments which operates customers and company on large scale and through this basis
of how functions are to be processed of company is being analyzed (Sfantou and et. al., 2017).
The basic for, in which company is analyzing the opportunities and the strengths is through the
external business environment which helps in assessing the very effective and basic form of
business through which organization structure is being analyzed and this enables that what are
various forms in which processes and the procedures of organization as whole is being carried
out on large scale.
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