Value and Contribution to Organisational Success

VALUE AND
CONTRIBUTION TO
ORGANISATIONAL
SUCCESS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse value of organisational design theory in relation with organisational structure and
fulfil organisational strategy by using specific examples.......................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2 Mention about various techniques and approaches to attract, maintain and develop human
resources to sustain a dedicated workforce............................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Carry out an appropriate research and utilise contemporary knowledge to support the
evidences in emerging human resource developments..........................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
P4 Analyse the manner in which organisational designs give response and adapts change
management and their relationship in specific business situation..........................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Organisational designing is defined as the alignment of multiple departments in a
company so that expected goals and targets can be achieved efficiently. If organisational design
of a company is not good then performing activities and operations in a systematic manner is not
possible (Al-Haddad and Kotnour, 2015). Changes in organisational design leads to change in
operational and productivity efficiencies. To acknowledge and identify the change in
organisational design, manager of a firm are needed to determine the need of change. This
assignment report is prepared in context with Marks and Spencer which is a multinational
corporation, headquartered in Westminster, London and deals in food, home products, clothing
etc. This company operates their activities in global manner. This assignment is going to discuss
about merits of organisational design theory and its assistance in organisational strategy. Also,
various approaches to attract, maintain and retain HR resources is discussed. Other than this,
emerging HR developments are mentioned and the manner in which organisational design adapt
change management in different situations is discussed.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse value of organisational design theory in relation with organisational structure and
fulfil organisational strategy by using specific examples
In order to achieve desired outcomes and results, each organisation is needed to have
efficient organisational design. With the help of appropriate organisational design, business
activities can be performed with highest efficiency and carrying out organisational changes will
became easier. As M&S is a global organisation which serves their customers worldwide, this
company uses divisional organisational structure (Cho, Park and Dahlgaard-Park, 2017). In this
structure, entire organisation is divided into different divisions and each division posses their
separate functions. Due to this, no division is dependent on each other and perform their work
without any interference. There are three theories associated with organisational structure i.e.
classical, contingency and neo-classical theory. These theories are mentioned below:
Classical theory: It is considered as one of the oldest theory of organisational design.
This theory includes aspects of administration theory, bureaucratic theory and management
theory. In this kind of theory, skilled and expertise people are given a specific task so that
expected outcome can be gained out of it. In classical theory, division of labour and work takes
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