Organizational Theory and Practice Report: British American Tobacco

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of organizational theory and practice, using British American Tobacco (BAT) as a case study. It explores various management styles, including directive and authoritative approaches, and examines the functions and principles employed by the company. The report details the steps taken to form the organizational structure, highlighting the functional structure and the organizational culture adopted by BAT. It further delves into effective leadership styles, such as autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire approaches, and discusses the effects of power, influence, and conflict within the organization. The report also analyzes the strategies used for employee motivation, providing corporate examples to illustrate key concepts. Finally, it offers recommendations based on the analysis and concludes with a summary of the findings.

Organizational
Theory and Practice

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Management style and functions & principles used by the company..........................................3
Steps taken for forming the organizational structure...................................................................4
Effective leadership styles...........................................................................................................5
Effects of power, influence and conflict......................................................................................6
Style for motivation.....................................................................................................................7
Corporate examples......................................................................................................................8
Recommendations........................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERNCES.................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The affiliation grasps distinctive structure, rousing theories and organization style
according to the need of laborers and of the affiliation. It is a great deal of major for a
relationship to impel its laborers with time. There are various theories which an affiliation
applies, these hypotheses may be related to the style of organization or related to the style of
motivation. The associations apply the structure as showed by the necessities of their systems.
For reference reason this report has taken an instance of an association, British American
Tobacco. This association has a CEO, Mr. Jack Marie Henry.
This report discusses the organization style and guidelines and components of the chiefs which
are being used by the CEO. The report moreover joins the methods which are taken regarding
affiliation structure so they can achieve the world class and the lifestyle which is being gotten by
the affiliation. Beside this the report similarly consolidates the position style which is been
gotten by the association's overseers or pioneer to lead their people towards the heading of their
conclusive objective or targets.
TASK
Management style and functions & principles used by the company
There are different styles for the board which can be received by an association. Some of
them are as per the following:
Directive organization style: This is an authoritarian style of the board. In this all the decisions
are made by the elevated level people of the heads and all underneath level people need to adjust
and follows the solicitations or the decision which has been made. Generally, this organization
style isn't exceptionally proposed but at this point and afterward there are various situation in
which this style needs to get used. Concerning the circumstance with British American Tobacco,
the CEO Jack Marie Henry grasps this style of the board in such situation where there is a need
(Amankwah-Amoah, 2016). For example when the staff people from the Company are not
checking out him extensively after various alarms then the CEO needs to use this organization
style to finish the things from them.
Authoritative Management Style: It should be best style for the board among the part. The goal
of this organization style is to give a drawn out vision and a right bearing for the delegates and
the sub ordinates. Here in this style the head set the missions or vision for the association and he
works the firm with applying the sensible positions. Similarly the managers endeavor to
convince and mentor his people when stuck between a rock and a hard place. This organization
style which is been truly used the association. Also the association in it the heads adheres to all
the norms of Henri Fayol, a part of his guidelines are according to the accompanying:

Balancing authority and responsibility: in this principle the manager gives the responsibilities
to his other team members also as this activity lessen the burden from the shoulders of manager
and also the team member feels valued into the organization.
Unity of command: The unity of command principle states that the employees should have a
manager from where he supposed to take the command from. This activity would bring
uniformity into the workings (Burnett, 2016).
There are capacities which each association embraces into their tasks, these capacities are as per
the following:
Planning: It is the procedure in which the organization makes the plan about their future steps
and activities which they would going to undertake in the future course of time.
Organizing: In this step the resources get organized as per the planning which has been made by
the organization. In this the structure for the plan is made and so that the further activities can go
accordingly.
Staffing: In staffing the people or candidates get hired in which the people who are suitable for
the job position get hired by the organization.
Directing: In directing the manager or the supervisor directs and monitor the activities or
performances which are done by the employees.
Controlling: At this stage the manager compares the current performance of the employees with
the performance which they have set as a standard. They do so that they can detect the gap
between the two and take the corrective actions.
Steps taken for forming the organizational structure
A progressive structure suggests the structure of how activities are portrayed about how
they would going to grasp, collected and encourage into the affiliation. It also portrays the
structure for correspondence wherein he describes the stream and heading for the agents for
correspondence (Falola and et al., 2018). There are various sorts of structure which joins
reasonable, divisional, grid and level. Among the previously mentioned, the Thomas cook
follows the reasonable structure.
Functional structure: In this sort of structure the hierarchical structure is been separated by the
functional territories. Functional territories may incorporate the budgetary division, advertising
office, human asset office, operational or creation office, etc. Here the job of every one of these
offices is distinctive which is as indicated by the work performed by them. Crafted by account
office is to deal with the funds of the organization, crafted by human asset division is to enlist the
representatives and oversee them into the association.

English American Tobacco, likewise embraces an organizational culture wherein they sets the
qualities, morals and workplace so that the representatives feel great and inspired while working
into association. In the functional structure the correspondence stream among the representatives
is upward and descending in which the workers of every division speaks with the representative
or that office as it were.
There are 4 kinds of hierarchical culture which are according to the accompanying:
Clan: In such a culture the affiliation demonstrations like family. They put more fixation
subsequent to training, supporting and playing out the work together.
Adhocracy: In such a culture there is a turn of events and inventively in playing out the things or
work. In this the way of life stays upon the game plans of doing the things first. Here all the
laborers endeavor to use their innovative idea or mind and endeavors to play out the task first.
There is a resistance running among the agents to complete the task first with suitably and with
profitability.
Market: This culture put highlight on competition and they simply mind about the results,
improvement and achievement of the goals and goals by any ways. They fundamentally base on
"doing what needs to be done".
Hierarchy: such a culture is structure and controlled. They put more focus on capability (Foray,
2018). They endeavors to contribute the measures of vitality and guarantee that the work which
is been done is suitable and practical and gotten done with full exactness.
The affiliation British American Tobacco, follows the clan hierarchical culture in which they
endeavors to live like a family and continues like a relative with each other. This sort of
hierarchical culture helps the relationship in energizing the laborers; it similarly builds up the
trust and direct exercises and correspondence into the affiliation which is something to be
grateful for. This similarly incorporates the gainfulness with the affiliation.
Effective leadership styles
Pioneer is a person who impacts the others to follow a particular course. A mind blowing pioneer
sets a model for others with the objective that they can continue with a day by day presence up
to. There are diverse initiative styles which an individual can get or in work in him for
influencing the others. A pioneer should have the uncommon qualities like he should be
empathic, he should be shrewd, real, open, should have the option to manage the people and their
inquiries, and so forth.
Autocratic administration: In such an authority style the association or the manager gives
solicitations to his subordinates or the partners. He doesn't consider any idea or evaluation given
by the people (Hayes, 2018). He accepts the decision as showed by his own understanding. In
this style of authority the decisions are taken quickly and fast.

Democratic authority style: In such an initiative style the executives joins his people while
taking such a decisions into the affiliation. In this the pioneer is a ton of empathic and gives the
comparable opportunities to everybody in the work spot to perform extraordinary and better.
Here the pioneer continues like a partner and mentor as he helps the agents in getting from the
troublesome circumstances. He takes a decision basically after the gathering of his associates.
The chief furthermore endeavors to bring the responsibility of his laborers by guarantee that they
put their own musings and evaluation on the table at the social event.
Free Rein authority: It is such an initiative style in which most extraordinary freedom is
allowed to the disciples. It gives the laborers a genuine degree of freedom wherein they are
allowed to play out the endeavor in the way which they way. They don't need to follow the
particular advances or bearing for the culmination of the work (Howitt, 2019). The pioneer who
follows this initiative styles gives full freedom to his supporters for the way their lovers needs to
complete the work.
The affiliation British American Tobacco, the chairmen follows the democratic initiative style
where it takes the advices and contemplations to the agents before taking any further decisions.
The director understands the situation of the delegates, continues like a buddy with him, and
mentors the laborers at whatever point they need to do in that capacity.
Effects of power, influence and conflict
Power alludes to the capacity of the individual to impact or provide order to another individual or
gathering. There are different sorts of power which has been practice into an association, some of
them are as:
Legitimate power: In this sort of power, the individual who has a place with upper positions
impacts the set of accepted rules of his subordinates. In this the more significant level individual
provides request and order to different people. In Southern business innovation, this power gets
practiced by the chiefs, departmental head, CEO's and all where they provides order or impact
the others to work into a predefined course.
Coercive power: In this the director utilizes its power of his position and make the collaboration
in like manner by appearing or revealing to them the ramifications for not finishing it. The
supervisor of British American Tobacco utilizes this power when they feel that his colleagues are
not performing sufficient considerably after he has attempted all the positive modes for
inspiration (Hsu and Backhouse, 2020).
Reward Power: In this the association reports the rewards for the worker who has performed
very well in his work. The reward can be monetary and non budgetary. These reward framework
has the power to urge the people to work into a particular course. British American

Tobaccooffers the reward which inspires and impact its representatives to work in a planned
way.
Expert power: In this kind of power, the individual who has a generally excellent order in his
field of work and is an expert in that impacts others. In this he give the direction to the
representatives about how they can play out the errands and how they can accomplish the ideal
execution. British American Tobacco Company sorts out the meetings or preparing and
advancement program in which they welcome an expert who helped the representatives in the
predefined things.
Referent power: In this kind of power the individual gets impact through some big name or
some acclaimed individual. British American Tobacco for its publicizing and limited time
exercises has put a well known superstar with the goal that his fans viewed the advertisement and
buys the item.
It is additionally exceptionally normal that an individual gets effectively impact by the others
character in view of numerous elements which may incorporate the work that individual plays
out, his correspondence styles, his character, his authority in his work, etc. English American
Tobacco, there would be a great deal of representatives or staff individuals which would get
impact through the character of CEO Mr. Jack Marie Henry (Lindon and Trodd, 2016). It is a lot
of fundamental for him to have a decent set of principles in light of the fact that there are
individuals who are admiring him.
Style for motivation
There are numerous different inspirational speculations accessible. The association utilizes not
many of them which are as per the following:
Maslow's Hierarchy of necessities: In this the creator expresses the 5 phases for need which goes
about as an inspiration for a person. These levels are as per the following:
Psychological requirements: At this stage the individual looks to compete with the basic needs,
basic needs may include food, sleep, clothes, and shelter and so on. The company satisfies this
psychological need through providing the basic level of salary to the employees so that they can
satisfies all their psychological requirements (McCormack and McCance, 2016).
Safety needs: in this stage the person searches for safety in his life and job. The company British
American Tabacoo Company satisfies this need through the providing safety to their job; apart
from this they also provide the medical and health security to their employees.
Social needs: Humans are the social beings, they requires getting social with the people. This
need of social is full fill by the organization through providing an environment in which the
employees can make friends and a comfortable environment.

Esteem needs: At this stage the individual demand for the self recognition into the society or the
place where he is working. The organization satisfies this need by giving the equal opportunity to
the employees of promotion, appreciation, status recognition and etc (Swyngedouw, 2017).
Self actualization: Self actualization is where a representative has achieved every one of his
objectives which he has set for himself . As in connection with British American Tobacco , the
workers has achieve all the objectives which he has sets for himself with respect of this
association.
Corporate examples
There are different sorts of corporate model which must be obeyed by the organization,
authority just as various sort of inspirational hypothesis that is embraced by American British
Tobacco Company for working business association in proper way. There are different models
that give guidance to the association for directing various procedures and improving different
frameworks just as a methodology that must be executed or embraced by Organization in a
proper way. They receive the executives styles for making guarantee capacity, aptitude just as
nature of administrator that must be embraced for representatives of business association. There
are likewise stressed on carrying profitability and better quality items than its client for fulfilling
them.
The British American tobacco organization embraces motivation style of administration that help
in making guarantee the pioneer centers around bringing capable just as educated distinctive
individual and furthermore offer them instructional meeting so as to expand their abilities just as
information at work environment (Van Riel and et al.,2016). Then again Toyota receives
authority style that helps in empowering the representatives of the organization and furthermore
offers subjective administrations to its client. For playing out their capacity in a fitting way they
utilizes distinctive sort of instruments, for example, complete quality administration ,Six Sigma
and lean creation that help in giving better quality item than its clients by decreasing wastage. It
is the duty of chief to give compelling preparing to its representatives for maintaining their
business in a suitable way and furthermore receives administration style which will be helpful for
association.
The persuasive methodology which is embraced by British American tobacco organization that
help in inspiring its representatives and it is useful for association in accomplish their objective
just as goal in pre-chosen timeframe. For instance Google embrace same path for empowering
representatives for expanding the profitability and that additionally help in boosting the income
or benefit of association. They additionally give diverse sort of program identified with fund just
as non account advantage which is useful for workers of association.
Recommendations
Consequently all the administration technique that is received by British American
Tobacco Company is proper in work their business in a fitting way. It additionally makes

increasingly more income for association. There is distinctive sort of techniques that helps in
improving or rousing the representatives of the organization. Thusly there are different proposals
that is acquired by the organization for making guarantee that the exhibition of association must
be improved in future timeframe.
 The association centers around receiving top methodology for speaking with its
subordinate and furthermore shared their place of perspectives just as thought in regards to
various capacity and tasks that is useful for association. They likewise center around facing that
issue which is looked by the representatives of the association. They are utilizing this
methodology for speaking with its workers in direct way and it likewise helps in expanding the
presentation level of representatives in future timeframe
 Furthermore the organization receives different style of administration like change style
of authority that is embraced by CEO of Amazon. It helps in bringing consistent or customary
advancement for fulfillment level of representatives. In this the administration style centers
around bringing various alters and furthermore gives course to the colleague to do their work in a
suitable way. It will be points of interest for business association to build execution level by
receiving this sort of initiative style inside business.
 Moreover the organization receives Maslow order hypothesis of need that helps in
spurring workers. It helps association in embracing distinctive degree of need that must be
satisfied by association so as to propel their representatives (Wang, 2018). Notwithstanding this
they likewise offer financial or non-fiscal awards to its representatives for fulfilling than. They
likewise underlined on offering diverse social Esteem needs just as self realization need of
subordinate so as to inspire them for boosting the presentation level of business association at
Marketplace.
CONCLUSION
From the report examine over, the association utilizes various kinds of the executives
styles into its activity some of them incorporates order and dictatorships the board style. The
organization likewise utilizes the standards and elements of the executives. Guideline may
incorporate division of work, solidarity of order, obligation and authority, etc. Though capacity
may incorporate arranging, sorting out, staffing, coordinating and controlling. The association
likewise follows diverse administration styles, power styles and persuasive hypotheses to impact
the representatives.

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