Structure and Culture – Assessment 1

Structure
and
Culture –
Assessment 1

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In an organisation effective structure as well as culture is necessary because through it
they able to conduct their work in proper way. Structure is consider as a system which is used by
a firm in order to analysis hierarchy at workplace (Thornton, Ocasio and Lounsbury, 2012). On
the other hand Culture is a technique which is based on beliefs, value, assumptions and so on.
Both factors help a firm in conducting work effectively. Organisation taken for this report is
Kellogg's which is operating in food processing industry and it is founded in year 1906 by Will
Keith Kellogg. Topics included in this report are relationship among respective company culture,
structure, performance and peoples. Moreover it will also done by implementing effective
theories as well as model.
MAIN BODY
Kellogg's is a public limited company which is operating its business operations at food
processing industry. It is founded by Will Keith Kellogg in the year 1906 and its headquarter is
situated at Battle Creek, Michigan, United State as well as it offer its products and services at
worldwide level. Products offer by respective company are cookies, crackers, cereal bars, frozen
waffles, vegetarian food, toasted pastries, cereals and many more (About Kellogg Company,
2019). Along with this respective company offer their products through diverse brands Eggo,
Pringles, Sunshine Biscuits and Grardenburger. They also have several subsidiaries such as
Kashi, Rxbar, Keebler Company as well as Bear Naked Inc. The respective company conduct
analysis in order to identify relationship among organisation culture, organisation structure, its
peoples and performance.
Organization structure is define as a system which is use by a company in order to outline
the process that how they will conduct activities and process for attaining their target in
impressive manner so that they gain competitive advancement (Brown and et.al., 2019). This
process will include several factors such as role, responsibilities and rules. It mainly describe
about stage through which information or message will flow among diverse level at workplace
effectively. There are various type of organisation structure which can be adopted by a company
in order to operate their operations in properly. Such as hierarchical structure in which every
group of employees are supervise by one employer. In this group is develop on the basis of
several factors like function, products, services and geography. It is generally adopted by large
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company where there is different level of power, authority and management. Another type of
structure is flat structure which is generally consider for small firm.
At this all departments or stages are consider at same level as well as by adopting this an
organization able to eliminate several middle level management. There are several other
organisation structure which can be adopted by management according to their operating and
size of firm such as matrix, divisional, network, line organisational, team base and many more
(Fuhse, 2013). In respect of Kellogg's organisation structure adopted by them is matrix structure
which is define as structure that is reporting relation among the set as a matrix or grid. In this
style an employees need to conduct dual reporting that is to products manger as well as
functional manager. By adopting this respective company able to exchange data and message in
effective manner as well as it promotes to democratic leadership style in which every staff of a
company treated equally. This will also leads to satisfied as well as motivated employees at
respective company.
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Illustration 1: Org chart
(Source: Org chart, 2019)