Managing Organizational Issues: Analysis and Recommendations for Sunflower Food Company

Running: Managing organizational
1

Managerial communication
Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of behavioral and organizational issues and their impact..............................................................3
Appropriate framework/models/theories.....................................................................................................5
Hofstede cross cultural dimension model................................................................................................5
Motivation theories..................................................................................................................................7
Quality of argument in support of recommendations...................................................................................9
Recommendations for the changes that address the issue identified..........................................................10
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................11
References.................................................................................................................................................12
2

Managerial communication
Introduction
The primary purpose of this paper is to outline the environmental issues that are faced by the
Sunflower food company. The factory provides various types of food products to the customers
in the international market. The company employs approx 65 full time and 10-30 casual
employees to explore and flourish the business globally. There are 8 supervisors in the company
who guide the workers for making effective decisions within the organization. The paper
discusses that various organizational issues such as internal culture, poor motivation and low
staff morale issues are being handled by the company. On the other hand, it also explains unique
suggestions that have been given to prevent and handle these issues and challenges. More detail
of the task has been detailed below.
Analysis of behavioral and organizational issues and their impact
There are ample of issues are faced by the CEO in the organization. It has been noted that the
organization is not providing basic facilities to the employees. Therefore, various challenges are
being managed by the firm. Some of the behavioral and organizational issues have been detailed
below.
Internal culture issue: It is one of the biggest and foremost issues that is encountered by the
firm while initiating the business activities and operations in a large extent. Culture is an
important part of the each and every organization that helps to provide satisfaction and
motivation to the employees in the workplace (Cummings and Worley, 2014). The structure and
system of the firm create hurdles and obstacles by dividing the people within the organization.
Along with this, the factory does not include all the employees in the decision making process
thus it could affect their efficiency and effectiveness of the workers in the workers. Besides this,
authority is maintained by the top management and managers centrally therefore it reduces the
effectiveness and efficiency of the front line staff (Bolman and Deal, 2017). If any problem and
issue occur within the organization then it takes lot of to resolve and handle this issue. It has
been noted that people are not involved in the purpose of the organization. Failure is greater
3

Managerial communication
focus than success. The unhealthy competition among the subordinates is spreading in the
marketplace hence it is creating various obstacles and challenges at the workplace. Furthermore,
the organization is unable to provide ample of benefits, incentives and bonus of the workers
within the organization. It affects the success and profitability of the firm adversely. Lack of
praise is another issue that may influence the organizational culture and values. Unfair system of
ranking could also affect the sustainability of the firm. All these organizational cultural issues are
being entertained by the company in the global market. The culture issues have direct impacted
on the results of the firm (Thomas and Peterson, 2017).
Low staff morale issue: It has been found that Sunflower food firm is failed to provide
motivation and support to the workers while performing tasks and duties in the workplace.
Motivation and morale of the employees play a significant role to meet the long term
requirements and needs of the firm. It is analyzed that employee morale is one of the most
foremost and significant but most effective and difficult things to manage and control in a
company. It is significant to attain and maintain a high level of morale to improve and control the
retention, but it is quite complex to have an accurate idea on how the employees are feeling and
what are the causes of their dissatisfaction in the workplace. It can be serious issue or concern for
the factory as unhappy and discontented employees would lead to poor customer service,
retention issue and lower productivity and outcomes (Mowday, Porter and Steers, 2013).
Poor management of the factory is one of the significant reasons behind low morale. The firm is
failed to maintain an effective and unique management within the organization this, it could lead
to dissatisfaction among the workers. Sunflower firm does not allow an open line of
communication to the management then the firm is risking staff morale. The morale of the
employees is affected by the poor and ineffective communication at the workplace. If employees
do not feel comfortable at the workplace then it increases misunderstanding and issues within the
organization (Shaw and Barry, 2015).
It has been analyzed that workload in the firm can go up and down which requires a member of
company’s staff to keep up with unreasonable workload for long period of time can result to
resentment and burnout. Confusion and tension bring down employee morale thus it affects the
profitability of the firm (Burke, 2017). The employees would get frustrated if the set goals and
objectives are constantly changing especially when this occur ever before the first objective is
4