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Structure and Culture in a Company

   

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Structure and Culture
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTIONOrganisational culture is described as the underlying feeling, anticipation, belief andways of making interaction which make contribution to the unique social and psychologicalenvironment of a company. It also represent the values, beliefs and principles of organisationalmembers and the way and manner through which a company operate its business (Almond andVerba, 2015). This essay is based on Harrods which is a department store and located inKinghtsbridge, London, UK. It is the world's most famous department store online with the latestmen's and women's designer fashion, luxury gifts, food and accessories. This document willdiscussed about the relationship between structure, culture, people and organisationalperformance. Further will defined about the role of leadership and variables that determineeffective management and leadership. Behavioural approach to management and the factorswhich create impact differences in individual behaviour will also described. MAIN BODYOrganisational structure refers to a system which defines that how certain activities aredirected in context to attain the goals of a company. Basically it refers to the distribution of theemployees and their roles and responsibilities according their specification or department. Thereare different kind of organisational structure which can be followed by different kind oforganisation like hierarchical, flat, divisional, matrix, simple and several others. Themanagement of Harrods following hierarchical organisational structure. This structure refers to away through which an organisation can use different levels of authorization and a upended linkor chain of dictation between senior and subordinate levels of the company. The organisationstructure of this firm are helping to promote corporate that each individual person a groupinterest. The organisational culture of this organisation is also good. Basically organisationculture mention to a system of shared assumptions, beliefs and values which help in providinginformation that how people and employees of this company behave in organisation. Theseshared values create a strong influence on the people in the company and monitor how theydress, act and perform their allotted tasks and job responsibilities. There are various models likeHandy's model of organisational culture, Hoffestead model of organizational culture etc. whichare developed to monitor the organisational culture (Banet-Weiser and Miltner, 2016). Here, for1
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