The Modern Workplace: Analyzing the Relationships Between Organizational Culture, People, and Performance

Introducing the
Modern Workplace

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK- ANALYSES THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE,
PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE..............................................................3
Introducing the organisation (Pert a Manger).............................................................................3
Organisational structure..............................................................................................................4
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Organisational culture.................................................................................................................8
Relationship between structure, culture, people and their impacts on the performance of Pret a
Manger........................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Workplace is the area or a professional setting in which people gather for working and
performing actions in relation with specific objectives of the company. Every workplace is
different providing separate responsibilities, resources and operations to people (Landy and
Conte, 2016). The culture of an organisation plays a vital role in its functioning and defines the
structure of the company. Therefore, it is said that organisational culture, structure and people
are interrelated and their overall organisational performances depends upon their relationship.
The report is developed upon Pert a Manger a sandwich shop which is based in United Kingdom,
founded in 1983 and has around 450 shop chain around 9 countries of the world. The report
evaluates different types of organisational structure and cultures. At the end relationship is
identified amongst structure, culture and people of Pert a Manger for knowing the impacts upon
overall performance and profits.
TASK- ANALYSES THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE, PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONAL
PERFORMANCE
Introducing the organisation (Pert a Manger)
Pert a Manger is a sandwich chain which was first established in 1983 by Jeffery Hyman
as a shop which opened in a posh locality of London. The company liquidates in 1983 itself and
reintroduced in market again in 1986 by Beecham and Metcalfe and restarted the business. Both
Beecham and Metcalfe developed the menu for the shop by themselves which are natural food
products that are prepared in shop kitchen. Afterwords the Beecham and Metcalfe set up a Pert
foundation for alleviating poverty. The trust was funded by in house sales and boxes being
delivered to customers.
Today Pert a Manger has around 500 shops in over 9 countries of the world and its
structure is divided in stores and head office which is located in its domestic market that is
England, United Kingdom. Pert a Manger's main offerings are sandwiches, salads, snacks, sushi,
soups, coffee and beverages which are offered earlier through small shops and now in
restaurants. All food and beverages are freshly made in the kitchen of each restaurant everyday
with fresh and natural ingredients. The food which is left unsold in restaurants by the end of the
day are collected by charity houses and if not then donated to NGO's and others needy people.

Organisational structure
Organisational structure is a flow chart or an visual diagram of a company which shows
its hierarchy. The organisational structure reflects upon the responsibilities of employees, whom
they report to and decisions are made in the entity. It is defined as a system which outlines how
all the respective activities and actions are directed and should be running for goal achievement
and productiveness. The structure of a company also decides the communication flow of a
particular firm. The main reason behind having a prescribed structure for the organisation such
as for Pert a Manger is to increase productivity, increase the performance standards and keep the
firm focused towards the aim (Schubert, 2019). Mainly there are four type of Organisational
Structure which companies adopts while operating for keep their staff on track and direct them
properly. One of the structure is followed by Pert a Manger too. These structures elaborated
underneath and structure of Pert a Manger is identified:
 Functional Structure- The functional structure is the oldest for of organisational flow
which is known as traditional structure as well. The functional structure divides the
company into smaller groups with specific tasks, resources and responsibilities such as
dividing the into separate departments. Every group is led by different managers or
leaders where employees needs to report to them and those managers are answerable to
the executives and higher management. Pert a Manger is structured on functional basis
the chart is presented below.