Leading and Managing Organization: Drax Technology Report Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Drax Technology, a UK-based security management company, focusing on its organizational culture, change management strategies, power dynamics, and agile working practices. The report delves into the company's structure, including its division into Drax Service and Drax Technology, and evaluates its leadership approach. Key areas of examination include the company's culture, assessed through various frameworks, and its approach to change management using models like the Change Kaleidoscope. Furthermore, the report explores the influence of power and politics within the organization and examines its agile working methods. The analysis incorporates relevant theories and concepts to provide insights into Drax Technology's operations and management strategies, offering recommendations for improvement and growth.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Organizational culture.....................................................................................................................5
Types of Culture...........................................................................................................................6
Cultural Framework.....................................................................................................................6
Culture of Drax Technology and Drax Services..........................................................................6
Change Management.......................................................................................................................8
Change management strategies....................................................................................................8
Change management framework.................................................................................................9
Change management of the company Drax Technology and Drax Services...............................9
Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model...................................................................................................10
Power and Politics.........................................................................................................................12
Importance of Organizational Power and Politics.....................................................................12
Power and Politics in Drax Technology and Drax Services......................................................13
Agile Way of Working..................................................................................................................14
Way to achieve Organizational Agility......................................................................................14
Agility Framework.....................................................................................................................14
Agility of Drax Technology and Drax Services.........................................................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15

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Recommendations..........................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................18
Appendices....................................................................................................................................22
Change management analysis of Drax.......................................................................................22
Change management Framework..................................................................................................24
Cultural Framework...................................................................................................................24
Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model Concept....................................................................................24

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Executive Summary
The company Drax is one of the foremost alarm as well as security management business in the
international market. Drax is UK based company that provides different type of services to the
clients in an effective manner. Drax has divided its services in two parts which is Service and
Technology. Through such report, various operation of the company has been assessed that
majorly include its culture, change management, power and politics adopted by the company and
the agile working of the company. In evaluating the company, it has been noticed that the
company maintain healthy working environment in an organization and provide safety and
security to its employees as well. The company has launched Safety Drax toolkit for safety
leaders hat create changes in the working place. Some of the employees resist adopting however;
they are controlled by the higher authority. Moreover the company has adopted rewards and
legitimate power and politics in the workplace as well as controlling politics with groupism that
enhance the level of dissatisfaction among them to the certain extent. Other discussion has also
been covered in such report that helps in understanding the effectiveness of the company.

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Introduction
Managing business in the competitive market create biggest challenge fir the organizations in the
recent scenario. The company can grow in the market through leading the management of the
company in an effective manner. Leading and managing people play a vital role for the
company. It is one of the sources of achieving great success in the competitive market (O'Neil,
2018). Leadership is the art of motivating the group of people to act toward attaining a common
goal. Every organization has different leadership style that creates different organizational
culture which made them, success in the competitive market (Matinheikki, Artto, Peltokorpi and
Rajala, 2016). One of the innovative company Drax also maintain healthy working environment
in its workplace that made the competitive in the market. The company has adopted different
leadership style in its business that made it competitive in the market of UK.
The company Drax is one of the fire alarm organization as well as fortification service
benefactor that deliver resolution for the individuals, their possessions with other corporate
sectors which include transportation, manufacturing, healthcare as well as education sector. Drax
was introduced in the year 1997 (Totterdill and Exton, 2017). The company is divided into two
different sections which include Drax Service as well as Drax Technology. The company Drax
service offers impartial life care and safety advices to its clients that make the client feel safe in
the workplace. It brings fire alarm upkeep, fire-risk valuation as well as free alarm system across
the UK in an effective manner. in order to creatively delivering the solution as well as a cost
measured provision, the business Drax Services cope the contracts of all sized that give the
autonomy to the individual to choose the cost system for them in an effective manner with
optimize safety (Baukal Jr et al., 2015).
The Drax Service has been introduced for the purpose of ensuring its customers with brilliant
quality of facilities as well as answer in dangerous with hazardous circumstances. It is betrothed
in given that sufficient and obligatory services solution in totaling to upkeep of the connected the
alarm system. Whereas, Drax Technology is involved in providing the obligatory tools and
instruments that is essential for the systems of alarm installed in the companies. Drax technology
is related to the produce as well as provides the equipment’s or any tools that is required to
control as well as analyze the employed of the system of fire alarm in an effective manner. The

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company operates alone in the market with an aim at bringing unresolved facilities to its
customers related their security as well as safety in the situation where their lifetime is in hazard.
It delivers compliance tools that monitor every event activation as well as operators actions
(Drax Services, 2019).
In the following part here will be detailed analysis of the organizational culture of Drax with the
help of different theories and concepts along with power and politics being followed by the
company and change management adopted by the company to grow in the market.
Organizational culture
Culture is the vigorous portent that forms the behavior of the individual as well as the manner
they interact with each other. Other author defined culture as being entailed of explicit learned
standards that are centered on standards, principles as well as attitudes all of which exist in every
society. Therefore, organizational culture is the design of beliefs customs, attitude with the
assumption that might not have been clear but form the behavior of the individual and the
manner they become things ended in the company. Culture is the framework that is canned as a
variable that is influenced by other organizational components. Hence, culture has an influence
over the effectiveness of organization based on two regards firstly its strength as well as second
how well it is aligned with other components. Cultural analysis may also be applied to all kind of
the social phenomena. The point is that cultural research concentrates on meaning anchored as
well as transmitted in a symbolic form (Bortolotti, Boscari and Danese, 2015).
Drax maintain consistently high standards in its employment practices as well as every
employee also benefited from the variety of the rules to provision in the office that create healthy
organizational culture in the organization. A successful transformation of culture requires full
engagement as well as buy-in from all the level of leadership throughout the organization.
Culture transformation stars with the identification of either an issue or an opportunity (Stulberg
and Salomone, 2016). The company can transform the culture by imposing policies and
providing training to the employees that made them understands the culture that is requiring in
the organization (Dhillon, Syed and Pedron, 2016).

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Types of Culture
There are different types of culture that are explained in below points:
 Clan Culture. It is one of the culture here the working environment is friendly one. The
individual have lots in common as well as it is similar to large family.
 Adhocracy Culture: it is dynamic and creative working environment. The employees
mostly take risks. The leaders also seen an innovators as well as risk takers.
 Market Culture: it is one of the result based company that majorly focus on finishing
work as well as getting things done.
 Hierarchy Culture: it is formulized as well as structured work environment in which the
procedures decide what people do (Naqshbandi, Kaur and Ma, 2015).
Therefore, Drax has adopted adhocracy culture in its workplace that help the employee to grow
its skills in more effective manner and can able to participate in the innovation process more
efficiently.
Cultural Framework
The model motivate the individual to consider the type of stories that is told, the meaning of
symbols as well as in what manner, they interpreted and the impact of structure, control, power,
rituals with routines. Culture web include simple, clear presentation of the cultural elements as
well as it also involve complex integration of several approaches that help to understand the
cultural gap in the organization in more efficient manner (Porkka, 2016). Therefore, the stories,
symbol and other tools are used to analyze the culture of Drax more efficiently. Such framework
helps in providing relevant information about the management of the company that is used to
analyze to understand the culture of the company.
Culture of Drax Technology and Drax Services
The culture environment of Drax Technology as well as Drax Services will be explained through
the cultural web can able to understand the effectiveness of culture in the organization as they are
explained in below points:

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Stories
Drax explained itself as well organized
company that manages its employees in an
effective manner.
Ritual and Routines
Drax meets the requirement of OHSAS 18001
and the US certification ANSI Z10. The group
health and safety policy outline their approach
Symbol
Drax maintain high standard in the
employment practices as well as all the
employees’ benefit from a range of policies to
support them in the workplace. The company
also focuses on valuing the people with driving
the performance of business and also develops
talent.
Organizational Structure
Drax has adopted formal structure in its
business that is required for the employee to
follow the regulation. The company has normal
hierarchy in which employee need to report its
manager and manager need to report the
directors that maintain healthy communication
among them.
Power Structure
Drax has adopted centralized power structure
to the certain extent and provides some
lenience to the employees to take decision by
their own in particular work by adopting

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decentralized power structure
Control System
Proper report is prepared on monthly basis that
is given to the Board of the company that
includes Lost Time Injury Rate, Diseases and
Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, Total
Recordable Injury Rate for the group after
which full audit is carried out by independent
third party to analyze the effectiveness of the
system (Drax, 2019).
Change Management
Change management is f the systematic approach to deal with the transformation or transition of
an objective of the company, its processes or any other technologies. The main purpose of the
changes management is to implement the strategies for an effective change, controlling changes
as well as supporting the individual to adapt such changes (Hornstein, 2015).
The underpinning theory of change management includes Lewin, Transtheoretical Model as well
as Stage of change. Lewin model cover unfreeze, change as well as refreeze change model. TTM
is one of the cross theoretical as well as picks up elements that have 18 theories from psychology
and other field (Hornstein, 2015).
Change management strategies
There are certain strategies through which the organization can transform change management as
it is explained in below points:

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 Propose Incentive: the company can offer incentive to the employees that will encourage
them to adopt and engage with the new direction of the company.
 The company can redefine the cultural value that is based on the assumption that people
as social being want to “fit in” and “go along” with the cultural norms as well as values.
 The company can shift the burden of change by adopting new structure with complete
new structure, workflows; process (Cook, 2015).
Change management framework
Change Kaleidoscope is one of the frameworks or model that is compose of outré ring as well as
inner ring. The outer ring represent the contextual feature of the company that are time, scope,
diversity, capacity, readiness, power, capabilities as well as preservation. Whereas the inner ring
provides the design or implementing the choices that are change path, change style, change
target, change roles, change levers, change start points as well as change roles (Haggblade et al.,
2017).
Change management of the company Drax Technology and Drax Services
The change management of the business will be explained through Change Kaleidoscope that
can help in understanding the changes in more effective manner.
Time Change is obligatory soberly snippy. As there is no any sensation of
sincerity as the connotation is not a spare. It is additional anxious with
extensive lug key progress.
Scope The change also stimulus the whole group or connotation as the liberal
structure has also been modified as well as the commanding assembly
has been compressed. Drax is required to focus on its safety system to
protect its employee more efficiently
Preservation The connotation is also sphere enclosed from the fundamental
vicissitudes that is Lessing the hazard of possible spare. Drax is required

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to motivate the employees in an effective manner as well as to enhance
the quality of service and safety of employees
Diversity The diversity is done in term of values, attitude of employees as well as
other norms of the company
Capabilities To the certain extent, the staffs were not ready for any change occurs in
the workplace due to the reason of organizational culture and
organizational structure.
Capacity Drax has low managerial time and low people in the workplace to make
changes as well as the available fund is also sufficient to make changes
Readiness The readiness of CEO is high whereas the employees resist adopting
changes to the certain extent.
Power CEO of Drax has most of the power therefore; it is possibility of high
power distance (Drax, 2019).
Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model
Kotter model has eight steps which include sense of urgency, create a guiding coalition, create
vision for change, communicate the vision, remove obstacles, create short term wins, and
conciliate improvements at the end anchor the change. Therefore, through such process, the
company can adopt changes in its workplace more efficiently (Small et al., 2016). Drax can
adopt such method in an efficient manner which is explained in below points:
Create a sense of Urgency
On the Management Team level, there is good sense of urgency as they comprehend there is
huge requirement of security and safety at the workplace. People can able to work more

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efficiently in healthy environment. Therefore the sense of urgency is already created among the
employees.
Creating the guiding coalition
The team of management has created a guiding association but it would not be possible to
converse to numerous individuals as well as to push forward the change project. Therefore, there
must be more class level players that include supervisor, base level staffs to exertion on the
change project and middle manager.
Developing change vision
The recent change purposes are responsive and unruly unraveling in their nature. They are
possibly the correct things to do however they do not offer much attractive goals to the
individual.
Communicating the vision for buy-in
The employees will be provided proper training for the safety tools applied in the workplace to
make utilize in more efficient manner. Repetition will be done with proper explanation and
leading through guiding coalition.
Empowering employees for brad based action
The plans of management team the safety process that is required to implement in the
organization. The Human Resource Department is also seeing an Assessment Center to the
central manager as well as set an individual department plan for them
Generating short term wins
The company will set new KPIs to evaluate effectiveness of safety tool that will be introduced in
the organization. The KPIs can serve as the compass for the changes as well as also deliver not
only way but also the dimension of the development.
Build on the changes