Analyzing Leadership, Culture, and Performance in the MEAT PACK Case

This case study analysis examines the organizational behavior issues within MEAT PACK, a family-owned meat processing company. The essay focuses on leadership styles, cultural changes, and performance management strategies. It explores the challenges faced by the founder, Mr. Derek Bison, and the need for adapting leadership approaches, such as the hand-off approach, to motivate employees and achieve strategic goals. The analysis also delves into the importance of employee training, the implementation of a 'blue' leadership style, and the significance of fostering an innovation-friendly organizational structure. The study recommends a balanced approach to leadership, considering both hand-off and hand-on styles, and emphasizes the need for aligning employee behavior with organizational values to drive performance and market leadership.

Organizational behavior

Organizational Behavior
Meat Pack Case
Introduction
In this essay the focus will be given on the case study which is based on the leadership,
cultural and performance change issues in MEAT PACK. The company is the largest family
owned food processing company which is located in Australia. It has been seen that company has
27 years’ experience in the industry related to meat production. MEAT PACK focuses on the
processing plants in Queensland and New South Wales. The founder of the company is Mr.
Derek Bison who is involved in the business of meat sector. In this paper the discussion will be
made on the questions which are related to the entire case study.
Discussion
1. It has been seen that it is necessary for the leader to focus on maintaining
the culture so that it can be clear for the employees to meet the overall values of the
organization. This will also ensure that employees should not be reminded again and
again about the activities which they want to do. It has also been stated that if employee
take into consideration the overall mission of the company then it can be easy to realize
the values and goals of the company. Also in this case the employee will do what they
want to do to manage the entire situation of the company.
Also in this context there are different types of management styles which can help
to realize the strategic goals of the company. But managers should emphasize on meeting
the goals only because managers are the only one who motivates the employees to give
their best towards the activities of the company.
In relation to MEAT PACK, Bison will require to access that how to manage the
employees and how they should be directed. For instance: it has been seen that
employees can be motivated if proper supervision is given to the employees. These types
of the employees are aligned towards the overall goals of the company.
Also, there are employees who are not able to take correct decisions according to
the situation, so these types of employees should be managed in a proper manner so that
it can be easy to achieve goals. It has also been seen that there are managers who are
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involved with the employees in their activities and give feedback again and again. If
these types of activities keeps on taking place then the employees will not be able to work
in a free manner and also they will not be able to express the ideas that how company
should meet the vision and mission.
To implement the changes in culture and performance, it has been seen that
company should need to emphasize on considering the new management. In the
workplace the leadership takes place by creating the partnership and also by not
criticizing it. In this context, the changes of the new leadership can help to consider the
hand off approach. This kind of the leaders can be able to motivate the overall spirit of
the employees towards the goals as leaders focus on allowing the hand off approach
which will help the employee to achieve success (Choromides, 2018).
For Bison, if hand off approach is taken into consideration then it will be related
to managing the team without having any bypass to the overall line of authority. He
should not interfere in the operations of the company at the time of strategic change. If
this is done then it can be easy to focus on the change which is taking place.
The level of productivity will also be maintained and the level of customer would
emphasize on the strategic change (Alvesson and Sveningsson, 2015). There are areas on
which it is important to focus on hand on approach which takes into consideration the
direct reports which will help to identify the overall department of the workers who are
not able to meet the targets.
It can also be considered as the challenge for Bison as it has been stated that hand
off approach can be difficult for the employees to develop in the slow manner. This can
also take place when the hand off managers will not be able to consider their support at
the right degree as for these employees it is necessary to focus on developing the skills.
The change management strategy can help and it is also important for Bison to emphasize
on time bound actions as hand off approach which can lower down the entire process of
the company. This is also just because the hand off manager will not remain distinct and
will not focus on considering the change programs. Also in the end of the day the
employee will be able to focus on the goals and even focus on creative approach.
So, by analyzing this it has been recommended that Bison should emphasize on
exercising both the style of leadership by considering the actual situation. Hand off style
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should also be considered as employees do not like that their managers always follow
them at the time of managing the activities of the company and also it will make them
nervous and less efficient towards the activities assigned to the employees. When they are
nervous they will not be able to give their best towards the activities of the company. So,
it is important to emphasize on the leadership styles so that it can be simple to manage
the entire activities (Heifetz and Linsky, 2017).
2. According to the case study, Bison should offer training to the employees
so that it can be simple for them to have proper knowledge of the activities. With the help
of this the company can also achieve success in the competitive market. Also by putting
stop on the overall exercises of coaching, the senior leadership employees should have
continued to work on the strategies related to leadership. By introducing human
synergistic circumflex to the companies, employees should have the chance to give rating
to their performance. It has been seen that Behaviors can be classified into three colors.
The red color is related with defensive, Green for passive and blue as constructive. In this
context, the culture of the company was stated as red.
The bison found that there are many people in the workplace who were defensive
and also they relate themselves with the customers. In this context, the change of
leadership campaigns was to ensure that they should change it to blue for the plans which
are realized (Fairhurst and Connaughton, 2014).
Also it is important to consider the concept related to change of the structure
related to the companies which are horizontal in the nature and in this there are front line
employees and the leaders who control the workplace operations. It has been investigated
that there are many employees who are dedicated towards the work of the company. Also
there are executives who realize the challenges that will help to close the gap between the
talented and potential employees under their leadership. In Bison Company there are
many employees who work in different departments and it has been seen that employees
manage their activities with the help of their leaders.
If leaders are able to bring change in their employees then they will be
considered as the blue leaders and focus will be given on maintaining the overall
efficiency. Also it is not the intension of the employees to be defensive. The challenge is
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related to the lack of understanding of the changes that will be considered and it will also
become as the leadership (Reiche, Harzing and Tenzer, 2018).
There are some employees who will not be able to understand the change that was
required to bring best out of them. The top management does not consider the approach
which is considered as blue king of leadership which is given by Bison. It has been seen
that blue leadership should be good when the focus is given on creating the new markets
for METAPACK and also it will help to convert the individuals into the new customers.
The concept is essential in assisting the top management in the workplace and it also
helps to realize the overall talent in the workplace that will help to save the cost of
coaching (Giannakis, Harker and Baum, 2015).
Also it has been seen that leadership is considered as the service that employees in
the workplace will embrace or not. Every leader in the workplace should be able to focus
on achieving the customer’s base and also the top management should focus on managing
the performance.
The employees in the department should also take help from the managers. It has
been seen that when workers give value to the entire practice of leadership then they will
focus on purchasing the kind of leadership. Also, it has been seen that Bison will focus on
his employees acting with commitment instead of being the non-customers of the
leadership.
It has been analyzed that Bison also began to focus on the leadership and he stated
that this concepts and also the coaching of leadership was developed between the senior
employees. Also in this context the employees will not be able to work towards the non-
customers and it can also enhance the market share for the company.
It has been seen that blue leadership was considered as the important factor that
will help to convert the employees who are disengaged. The blue leadership will also
enable the employees to focus on the mission and vision of the company and it do not
focus on getting the salary.
It has been stated that blue leadership style will also focus on the change in the
company strength related to leadership. By emphasizing on the case study, it has been
seen that top management were able to consider the model related to Bison which vary
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form the traditional leadership and also it relates to the approach to development in many
ways (Bolman and Deal, 2017).
It can be stated that for top management, the influence of the change also
emphasize on the acts and operations in the companies. There are many studies in which
it has been stated that the values, qualities and characters that make the good leader and it
also emphasize on proper coaching. Also there are various changes in qualities and
characters which will help to enhance the overall performance. This can be related to the
senior leaders who look back to coaching programs related to Bison and also they should
not able to focus on the evidence related to the entire change. It is important to focus on
the transforming the overall behavior of the organization.
Also it is difficult to access the overall leaders in the company who are
internalizing and embracing the leadership of the new kind and it can be easily given on
the overall act and actions which is required to motivate the employees in the workplace
towards the strategic goals.
Also in the end, it has been seen that they will focus on measuring the overall
difference. It is simple to consider the change in the behavior of the people and also in the
operations of the company. It can create issue on changing the values, qualities and other
traits. So, it is related with the senior managers to focus on changing the values and
qualities so that employees in the workplace can easily consider following the entire
course related to guidance. It will also focus on considering the overall behavior of the
employees by taking into consideration the values (Day et al., 2014).
3. For MEAT PACK, it is important to consider the strategy related to
innovation friendly organization structure so that it can be easy to become the leader of
the market. It also requires considering the culture by focusing on the structure. Flat
structure in the organization helps to meet the goals and also the word related to flat
means misnormer.
Also the employees do not shift their overall responsibility to the top management
in the ladder of the company which helps to make the right decisions for the company. It
has been seen that there are various leadership and management benefits of considering
the flat structure.
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For MEAT PACK it has been seen that benefit is related to the structure itself.
There are many flat structure companies but MEAT PACK does not have the
management levels. This can also be different from the tall structure which are accepted
by organizations. BISON will also try to control the entire activities in which the
employees will information to BISON. MEAT PACK, have many managers who are
from different departments but they directly report to Bison. The management layer has
been reduced and MEAT PACK will be able to get the overall structure of the company.
The other advantage for MEAT PACK is related with communication. Also it can
be stated that there is proper channel of communication between the managers and
employees. This is just because of the top management who is democratic and also
provides employees the approach related to innovation. In the tall structure it has been
seen that communication can be faster and also effective. This is just because of the
efforts of the employees which assist to consider the decisions and also it give chance for
power struggle in the workplace.
When focus is given on the overall process of decision making it has been seen
that MEAT PACK is flexible and also adaptive in case of the tall structure. Also the
overall flexibility states that decisions should be taken on the regular basis. This helps the
employees to focus on the customers of the company.
When emphasis is given on the tall companies it has been seen that staff members
should consider the need of the approval form the managers who will then require taking
approval from the directors. This is not related in the case of MEAT PACK as the
employees have the power to make the decisions on a proper manner. The only reason
behind it is related with the less layers of reporting in the structure of the company and
also the decisions are made with proper mobility.
When the focus is given on changing the performance, it has been seen that the
flat structure at MEAT PACK consist of the qualified staff. Employees are also
dedicated towards the activities and there are skilled groups which help to enhance the
satisfaction level of the employees. Also it has been seen that MEAT PACK, achieve
success by considering the flat structure which focuses on the variations about the overall
structure of the office and operations. For instance: The company should focus on giving
the discounts of purchasing the bulk of the meal but if one denies then they belong from
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the different departments. Also it can be seen that at the end of the strategic development
the overall approach will move to the same organization so that growth can be maintained
in the high competition level.
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