Management Theories & Practices: A Post-Merger Organizational View

This essay discusses the application of management and leadership theories in solving organizational issues, particularly in the context of a merger between XY and Z companies. It covers various theories such as transformational, transactional, bureaucratic, and human relations theories, highlighting their importance in improving business performance and employee efficiency. The essay also examines the organizational structure of the new company post-merger, detailing the roles and responsibilities at different levels (top, middle, and lower) and emphasizing the importance of a well-defined structure for effective workflow and decision-making. The conclusion underscores the significance of these theories in enhancing overall business performance and achieving market success.

Management is an activity of controlling and directing the group of
people in order to accomplish the goals and objective of business. It is a
way through which manager can handle, supervise and carefully treat
their employees. The main purpose of management is to guide,
maintain and allocate the resources of organisation in order to attain
business goals and objectives. Management helps in improving the
skills of employees so that they can deal in professional and organised
manner. Through management, organisation can make proper use of
resources and also ensure business development and growth.
Transformational Theory: XYZ must implement transformational
leadership theory in order to overcome the leadership issue as this
theory help employees to transform and become better performer in
achieving the task. Leader must have transformational quality as it
helps in motivating the employees and show the significance of task.
T
ransactional leadership theory: Transactional leadership theory is one
of the theory of leadership that focuses on role of organisation, group
performance and supervision. By implementing this theory in XYZ
company, manager give their staff something they want in exchange for
getting something better.
Management: Putting theories and Practices
INTRODUCTION Leadership and management theories use to
resolve issues

Bureaucratic management theory: It is one of the theory of
management which must be implemented by XYZ in order to solve the
issues related to management. The theory was developed by Max
Weber which contains two elements such as structuring an organisation
into hierarchy and clearly defined rules that helps in running business in
effective and efficient manner.
Human relation theory: Human relation theory is another theory of
management which was developed by Elton Mayo. The theory helps in
promoting positive group relationships and values, it also helps XYZ to
create formal and informal elements.
Organisational structure is a concept that outlines hoe business
activities is directed for achieving the goals and objective of business. It
mainly includes roles, responsibilities and rules which must be followed
by XYZ after getting merged. Organisational structure generally
provide guidance to staff by offering official reporting relationship that
helps in governing the workflow of company.
From the above structure it is being identified that after the merger of
XY and Z they have created a new organisational structure in order to
run the business in effective and efficient manner. There are three level
of structure such as top level, middle level and lower level.
Organisational Structure for New
Company

CONCLUSION
It is being concluded from the above information that management and
leadership theory plays an important role in solving the issues regarding
the management and theories. There are various theories of
management and leadership which helps in improving the performance
and efficiency of business such as transactional theory, transformational
theory, contingency theory, human relation theory and many other.
These theory helps in enhancing the overall performance of business so
that they can gain success in market.
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Notes
INTRODUCTION: Leadership is a concept of encouraging, influencing and guiding the members of company so that they can achieve their vision. The main role of leadership is to
create inspiring vision of future, managing delivery of vision, and motivating people. Management and leadership are interchangeably but they are not same. The poster is based
on company that is going to merge with another firm in order to overcome the issues and improve the performance of business. This poster includes leadership and management
theories which must be used by organisation to resolve various leadership and management issues and also the organisational structure of new company is formed after the
merger with other company. The Chosen organisation for accomplishing this project is XY who is going to merge with Z in order to run the business in effective and smooth
manner. XY is a one of the large firm in fast food sector that offer various range of food items.
Leadership and management theories use to resolve issues: Leadership is a process of directing, guiding and influencing the staff so that they can accomplish vision. There are
various theories of leadership which helps in resolving the issues in XYZ they are contingency theory, situational leadership theory, behavioural theory, transactional theory and
transformational leadership theory.
Transformational Theory: By implementing this theory, leader of XYZ can focus on improving the performance of team and also team member can reach to their potential. It helps
in lowering the turnover cost of employees, engage staff, create and manage change, formulate the corporate vision quickly, create enthusiasm and encourage ongoing learning and
development. But transformational theory also has disadvantage as it develops negative outcomes and also require constant and consistent feedback. In order to implement the theory
in successful manner, it is important to make employees agree and also reduce the burnout of staff.
Transactional leadership theory: Through implementing this style, XYZ can resolve the issues related to leadership as it helps in creating fast result that are predictable.
Transactional leadership also help in motivating team members in order to maximise the productivity and performance of employees. By implementing this theory, the leader of XYZ
can also create achievable goals for individual at all levels by creating end points of organisational structure. Transactional leadership also eliminate confusion and create system that
is easy to follow. This theory allows employees to choose the reward they want to achieve in order to make the satisfied. XYZ can resolve the issues of leadership by offering reward
to their employees on the basis of their performance. It also helps in improving the morale and motivation level of staff due to which the contribute their best efforts in accomplishing
the goals and objectives of business. But transactional leadership also have some disadvantage such as it eliminates individuality from production process, limits the amount of
innovation and also create more employee than leaders. There are several management theories that helps in recommending general rules for managing business. Through
management theories, supervisors can implement the strategies to achieve the organisational goals and objective. By implementing the management theory, XYZ company can
increase their productivity, collaboration, objectivity and also simplify their decision making process. The different types of management theory are scientific management theory,
principle of administrative management theory, bureaucratic management theory, human relations theory, contingency management theory and various other.
Bureaucratic management theory:
The principles of Bureaucratic management theory are proper division of labour, chain of command, separation of personal and official property, application of consistent and
complete rules, selection and promotion based on qualification. By implementing this theory, XYZ can create structure that helps employees to feel safe and productive. Company can
give various advantages such as it discourages favouritism, encourage specialisation and also creates predictability. But there are also disadvantage of bureaucracy theory as it creates
additional competencies, difficult to maintain high morale and also reduce the opportunity to quickly adapt to changing circumstances.
Human relation theory:
The few elements of human relation theory are motivation, focus on people rather than economics and also desire efficiency by achieving maximum results with minimum
inputs. By implementing human relation theory in XYZ, the productivity of business increases and also it improves the employee retention rate. The human relation theory mainly
focusses on creating strong relationships between manager and worker.
Organisational Structure for New Company
The main role of organisational structure is to identify the people who can best fit in particular job description. Main motive of employees is to manage the cash flows, set the
duties and ensure the thoroughness of team. Through organisational structure, employees can get clarity, enable better decision making, provide consistency and also help to manage
expectation. The few elements of organisational structure are job design, department design, authority designation, job grouping, organisational hierarchy and coordination between
department. T6he few basic element of organisational structure is common purpose, division of labor, hierarchy of authority and coordinated effort. The organisational structure of
XYZ is functional as it includes activities which are similar in nature. There are different types of department in XYZ such as production, finance, marketing, human resource
management and many other departments.
In top level, the company mainly includes higher authority such as board of directors and CEO. The top level authorities generally take decision regarding the welfare, profitability
and performance of company. They have a power and authority to take the decision related to employees and organisation. In middle level, XYZ categorise different department who
have power to regulate their team and improve their performance so that they can contribute their best efforts in achieving the goals and objective of business. The department which
are created after the merger of company is sales and marketing production, human resource, finance, research and development and purchasing department. In lower level of XYZ,
they include the person who watches the performance and ensure that their activities must be accomplished in effective and efficient manner. In lower level, XYZ includes e-
commerce and direct sales. Customer service, product assemble, quality control, finance team and many other.