A Report on Modern Workplace Environment at Kellogg's

This report examines the modern workplace environment, using Kellogg's as a case study. It explores how Kellogg's fosters a supportive culture, focusing on leadership and management behaviors, group and team dynamics, and the role of motivation and perception. The report outlines Kellogg's vision and purpose, emphasizing the importance of employee satisfaction and engagement. It details how Kellogg's utilizes motivational theories, such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs, to enhance productivity and create a positive work environment. The report further analyzes the benefits of a modern workplace, including increased collaboration, reduced security risks, improved employee efficiency, and the enablement of remote working. It also discusses the application of the Hawthorne Effect within Kellogg's to improve employee performance and overall organizational outcomes. The report concludes by highlighting the impact of the modern workplace on employee behavior and professional goals.

Introducing the Modern Workplace

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background outline the project related organisation..................................................................1
Goals and objectives...................................................................................................................2
Leadership and management behaviours ...................................................................................6
Group and team behavior models...............................................................................................8
Motivation and perception .......................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Modern workplace environment are now far more than just having a collection of the
latest technical gadgets at your finger tips. Modern workplace environment evolving at lightning
speed with distributed teams, brand new business models and complex security issues. In modern
times, companies has been focus on the digital tools that connect and support employees into
more far better way. In present modern environment businesses having such a different form of
areas under which they influence their own productive level collectively. Present report will be
base on the Kellogg's where the study will further outline the concept of workplace environment
and how it helps to build the company supportive culture. However, the study also explains
about the concept of leadership and management behaviors in order to support with some
theories and models. Therefore, the study also will cover the importance of group and team
behaviors in the workplace environment. At the end of the segment of the report will support the
role of motivation and perception by following the some methods and theories.
Background outline the project related organisation.
Kellogg's :
Kellogg's is the global brand which manufacturing food products. Also, a Kellogg's
expanded to include many other products or brands as well under its one umbrella. It is an
American multinational brand which already has been spread across the world. Kellogg's is
famous for cookies, crackers, toaster pastries (Slater, 2015). Kellogg's marketed their products
or services in over 180 countries.
Vision : Kellogg's vision is to explore the food opportunities through expanding the brands
value.
Purpose : Kellogg's dream to nourishing families and customers with high quality standards.
However, the present project under line the importance of workplace environment and
how people spend a considerable part of their lives at work (Szczepańska-Woszczyna, 2015). So
it is not surprising that they expect to be rewarded and satisfied with the job performed by them.
The success behind Kellogg's is to motivated by a passion for people, quality and
innovativeness.
Project will further underline the Kellogg's work culture background and how they
influenced to the other activities and goals in order to meet the aims and objectives of the
company (Widmann and Mulder, 2018). Along with that, present case study briefly explains
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how Kellogg's maintains the workplace environment and motivates people and their employees.
In business environment motivational theories play a most essential role to develop the great
workplace environment. In order to support the workplace environment, Kellogg's has already
supported with good motivational concepts and also applying the best management practices like
scientific management. Furthermore, project will explains about the importance of management
theories and approaches that company adopts for the further effective areas.
Therefore, Kellogg's also using Maslow motivation theory in order to encourage
employees towards the productive work commitments (Herzberg, 2017). Also it helps to analyse
the actual needs and wants of the potential employees within the workplace environment. In the
case study of Kellogg's is explains about the concept of business opportunity to build up the new
information targets and also makes the business more realistic and developing. It has been
analysed from the case study of Kellogg's that employees of the company is highly motivated
and influencing towards the company productivity. In other words, physiological needs is
fulfilling by the company in order to offer competitive salaries to the employees. It helps to give
higher motivation to employees which acquire the basic needs for living (Peters, 2015). In order
to fulfill the social needs, Kellogg's operates weekly group huddles which is an informal
opportunities for employees to receive and request information on any part of the business.
Besides, self actualisation is the another important need of the employees which is an
opportunity to take challenging and stimulating responsibilities that motivates Kellogg's
employees to make more productive commitments towards the company goals. Along with that,
it helps further to express the importance of workplace environment and how it will affect the
work culture environment (Deckers, 2018).
Furthermore, In the study it will express the importance which builds the more higher
roles and responsibilities to make the workplace environment more easy and reliable. However,
the whole study or a project outlined the modern workplace environment and how does it impact
or affect the employees behaviour and their personal professional goals (Bârgău, 2015).
However, the further task will further helps to improves the best organisation task to further
implement te project aims and objectives into more effective manner.
Goals and objectives
The main purpose or goal of modern workplace environment is to develop the new
technological advancements which helps to reshaped the organisation performance and
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productivity level. In other words, new changes within the organisation might have spread the
new opportunities for the employees to learn to develop for the new achievements (Willis,
Clarke and O'Connor, 2017). Modern workplace environment can providing different growth
possibilities like changing the way businesses communicate. For example : Modern
technologies can help employees to use different option of communication that can help to pass
the information in faster way or also deliberate, collaborative and unfiled. With the helps of
technology employees not need to be present at the workplace every time they can also able to
mark their present from anywhere.
Modern organisational change also helpful to maintained and fully organised the business
opportunity and gain with different opportunity and task. The modern workplace has now many
innovative products and software to better increase the workflow and boost efficiency. Project
management software also assists to improve the quality and quantity of work (Raes And et.al.,
2015). This business opportunity can help to better understand the opportunity and task to
perform the best goals and opportunities. Making business operations more productive and more
influencing business gains and new work opportunity and task. It enables manager to more
influence the business opportunity also develop the organisational goals. Modern business
change can also helps to create the more opportunity for the future that helps to engage the new
challenging business task (Widmann and Mulder, 2018).
Modern workplace environment also helps in cost management that helps to initiate the
work opportunities and more creative work outcomes. Kellogg's are the promising the brand that
fulfilling their purpose in a effective manner. The main key purpose to influence the human well
being is to give them the beyond opportunities across the borders to create foods and brands that
help to fuel the best in everyone everywhere. Business further gained the opportunities to make
the work more systematic and effectively implement into more systematic manner. Along with
that, it better helps to develop the opportunity and gain in order to be more effectively performed
objectives. New modern changes and new business opportunities can better develop the target
market opportunities to more influencing and business (Raes And et.al., 2015). Giving
customizing options to be more effective and leading business opportunity and task. New
modern business organisation can also very influencing business performance in order to manage
and form the best outcome goals. The new business opportunity and gain can better provides the
big opportunities to take the more opportunities and targets. Collaboration in the workplace is
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much required and following the business opportunity and gain in order to maintained the high
performance targets and opportunity (Widmann and Mulder, 2018).
Importance of modern workplace environment
The main purpose of Kellogg's is to build up the level of motivation among employees in
order to sustained or influence great place to work. It also believed in new change or acceptance
that makes the business more productive and influencing. All such modern business environment
of the company strives the continuous development (Watzek and Mulder, 2019). The benefits of
Kellogg's investing in people can best be illustrated by looking at the work of some of the
theorists who have worked on motivation. Here below, it further explains the importance of
modern workplace environment.
Increasing collaboration : The business collaboration has changed the way companies
collaborate. Besides, Technology has also helped company to connect with people anywhere and
at any time with high systematic format. In order to sustained the business opportunity it helps to
modify the work goals and also helps to gained the high business target opportunities.
Reducing the risk of security Breaches : This is the another most prominent and
productive benefit of the business that makes the business more influencing. Kellogg's can
reduced their level of risk by focusing on the proper security measures while adopting the new
change within the modern business environment (Zhang And et.al., 2018). It has been concluded
that with the help of effective motivational techniques and support employees will better serve its
services for the company.
Improving efficiency of employees : Improving efficiency of employees is the another
beneficial term which makes the business more effective. Employees get highly influenced and
get motivated by new sources or planning. Somehow, it helps to motivate the work out goals and
also influence the business opportunities and task to make the study more interesting and
challenging (Smith, 2018).
Enabling remote working : New changes and modern business environment within
Kellogg's can also helps to work people from anywhere. Mobile and cloud technology has
allowed instant and remote access which enables internet based service models. Such new
techniques of working can result more positive and influencing.
However, from the above benefits and importance it has been concluded that how much
modern new business environment is important for the business growth. Kellogg's consists
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different functional areas under which company can perform their task into more effective and
influencing manner (García-Cabrera and et.al., 2016). However, the business opportunity can
also implement and attract most towards the new environment and objectives. In order to
perform the high influencing business opportunities Kellogg's also required to influence the
employees and its level of business goals. However, the benefits of collaborating using the above
are fairly obvious and also helps to make understand the opportunity and task.
In order to implement and established the new modern change it requires more attention
towards the development growth. However, in order to introduce new business environment.
Kellogg's can apply the Hawthorne Effect can be used in modern workplace.
Hawthorne Effect Model in the modern workplace at Kellogg's
Listening is important
The Hawthorne effect established that the productivity of employees which is increased
dramatically (The “Hawthorne Effect”, 2018). In other words, it is very required for today's
leadership who need to give a patient hearing to their team members. However, Kellogg's
should appreciate to those employees who come up with new ideas and methods (Sim, 2018).
Such practices or way can help to introduce unique environment within the organisation.
Observation over vigilance
This is the another way through Kellogg's can implement new modern change within the
workplace environment. As according to Hawthorne effect established that employees tend to
perform better when they are being observed. But on the same side, employees also get irritate
under the vigilance of 24 hour * 7. Employees wants that their leaders focus on their hard work
and give appreciation for that (Willis, Clarke and O'Connor, 2017). This is how Kellogg's can
established the new modern business environment and opportunity to move forward.
Right people in the right group
Employees who well capable and influencing in terms of productive work goals can
become unproductive when placed in the wrong group. According to the process of Hawthorne
experiment in which two mediocre people/worker replaced with two productive workers. It has
been discovered from the experiment that the production increased by the replacement of the two
people in order to be more sustaining and influencing business task. However, the outcomes will
come positively and also influenced the other people productive as well.
Gender Diversity
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Women are increasingly achieving the success in each and every field. Besides, womens
also increasing its own performance day by day (Raes And et.al., 2015). However, they are often
made to feel unwanted by male peers. Which also lead to low productivity and goals. It also
helps to calculate the work opportunity gain in order to summarise the best working opportunity
and task. In other words, it helps to motivate the other business environment to introduce the new
changes and business development plans. Such new activities helps to introducing the new
activities through out the work goals.
God of small things
However, this feature of Hawthorne effect suggests that organisation needs to understand
that motivation is not depend on the big things sometimes small appreciation can also provides
the great motivation to employees.
Leadership and management behaviours
Leadership and management will help to continue the work outcomes (Watzek and
Mulder, 2019). In order to be more conscious and leading business opportunities to be more
leading business opportunities. Without the support of leadership and management behaviours
company cannot fulfils the business aims and objectives as per the decide manner.
The Great man Theory of Leadership
As according to great man theory of leadership it is a heroic act of the individual. In other
words, this define the importance of individual and its own unique combination of qualities,
personality etc. such people or employees also inspire to other people towards a common goals
of the company (Sim, 2018). The theory of great man theory it more focus on the individual
skills and traits rather than towards the behaviour of the individual.
Also the great man theory of leadership helps Kellogg's to not focus on the work
environment or a particular situation. It helps to evaluate the best processing leading opportunity
in order to build the new objectives and goals.
Behavioural Theory of Leadership
Behavioural theory of leadership is focus on how leaders behave in the particular
situation. Such leadership theories are more towards into individual thoughts and thinks rather
than professional manner. This also helps to make the more authenticated and most influencing
business objectives. Along with that, it also helpful to make the better understand the opportunity
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to work more authentically and influencing. For example To motivate employees and business
workplace environment.
Scientific management Concept at Kellogg's
Scientific management concept of the management applied by the organisation which has
been given by the Frederick Taylor. As according to Taylor they believed that monetary reward
was an important motivating factor which influence the business opportunity and gain. Kellogg's
motivates their employees with the help of highly advanced manner (García-Cabrera and et.al.,
2016). They provides motivation by the alternative way of cash which also includes the
opportunities to buy ans sell their holiday days. Non financial & financial supports employees
and make the motivated towards the job opportunities. Such improvements and potential work
opportunities create the positive working atmosphere also influence the new changes
environment.
Human Relation Theory
Human Relations theories are the human centred, emphasizing the capacities of
individuals to act autonomously and creatively and gearing management towards bringing out
the potential of the people. In order to maintained the modern business environment or new
opportunity within the business (Herzberg, 2017). It helps to sustained the business development
goals. Also it helps to better analyse the individual needs and wants that helps to better analyse
the needs and wants. Human relation theory of management began development in the early. The
human relations theory of management beliefs that people desire to be part of a supportive team
that facilitates development and growth. Along with that, it also helps to motivate employees by
maintaining the positive environment within the business.
This theory of management enable to sustained the positive relationship between
employees and also supports the other people to be more effective and authenticated. It makes
the better advantage to form a new advantage and new basic effective learning opportunities.
Individual attention towards the organisation can better develop the understanding between
employees and also motivates to other people in within the business organisation to earn better
opportunities for modern business environment.
Systems theory
Systems theory is also relate to the holistic pattern that better motivates the business and
also engaging the business systems theory aims for achieving an integrated and balanced whole
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in business as well (Peters, 2015). System theory of management can also applying in the
organisation in order to adopt the new modern environment work culture at Kellogg's. It also a
interdisciplinary study of systems that cohesive conglomeration of interrelated and
interdependent parts that is either natural or man made. The main concept of system theory is
one changing part can definitely affect the other part of the system. In order to undertake. This
system theory can usually give the certain results and outcomes towards the organisation
accomplishments. In which company having the open systems in order to maintain the dynamic
environment within the workplace environment. Such organisation has generally adopts the open
system theory (Zhang And et.al., 2018). System theory also helps to influence the businesses into
more productive manner and also shelps to introduces the new effective changes. New business
changes and new business organisations also helps to control the new business opportunities.
New business opportunity and develops the new business gains are more effective and helpful to
generate the good out goals.
Group and team behavior models
A huge difference can be seen in the working of earlier or traditional organisation and
modern organisation. The process of working is changed, now a days people are more concerned
about proper collaboration, communication and security in workplace. The major problem which
modern organisation or workplace is facing is shortage of skilled labors. The companies are
using new techniques and equipment in order to attract and manage employees within the
organisation(Natvig and Stark, 2016). The presentation will cover the various team and group
behavior model which will help the modern workplace to attract new people toward the
organisation as well as help workers to influence each other. The Kellogg's company has been
taken in order to complete the task.
As Kellogg's need to develop a modern work culture within the organisation therefore it
becomes essentials for the company to create a casual environment where employees respects
each other decision, listen to views of each other and should give equal opportunity to each and
every employees of the organisation. It has been noticed that the old way of working in the
Kellogg's has resulting in slow down of efficiency and as a result of which company is facing
many challenges(Kiweewa And et.al., 2018). With the change of time it become necessary for
the organisation to create a modern workplace environment which is flexible, collaborative and
is more responsive to problems.
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In order to make the company introduce modern work culture. The Kellogg's can make
use of below discussed group and team behavior model:
Tuckman group development model:
Forming: the company will form a team of employees from different organisation. As chanign
the whole work culture means converting the traditional workplace to modern workplace is not
an easy task. Therefore, it is required by the organisation to make team of employees from
different department in order to understand the working of each department and plan the
changes accordingly. A group will be formed who will try to introduce modern working in the
organisation. The process may involve improving employees availability, improved motivation,
higher level of job retention etc.
At this stage it might be possible that different members may oppose or disagree with
each others thoughts the reason may be clash of different personalities.
Storming: At this stage it might be possible that group members starts to understand each other
and starting gaining each others trust(Hays, 2017). A positive environment or behavior starts
developing in the group. The leader of the team will start discussing about the main motive of the
group. At this stage the participants may start forming the opinion about each other.
Norming: as now almost every organisation is shifting their working practices from traditional t
modern. Therefore at this stage the team become aware of the competition and starts to share
common goal. All the members of team create the sense of team spirit and starts working in a
team.
Performing: By coming to this stage the team members become highly knowledgable and
motivated. The necessary decisions will be made at this stage.
Adjourning: When the task of team which is introducing modern workplace has completed than
the team member may dissolve. And will join the new projects.
Belbin team role:
Application of Belbin team role in Kellogg's will help company to make use their
talented employees in order to create an effective team within the organisation. As per the Belbin
and its coworkers a team should consist of nine team roles. As each team role represent a
strategy to work in a team and make the team achieve its goal. The nine team role which should
be present are:
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Resource Investigator: Resource investigator are those person who are extroverted and has a lot
of contacts both inside as well as outside the team(Raes And et.al., 2015). Such type of
individual will help the company to introduce modern workplace both by mutual understanding
with its team as well as members outside the team. They are enthusiastic and open minded. They
like to maintain and develop contacts which will help organisation to introduce new working
practices in the organisation.
Team worker: Team member is the most sensitive member in team. Team worker is helpfuk
and is focused of creating a good or pleasant atmosphere within the organisation.
Co- ordinator: Co coordinators are the persons who look after procedures and helps team
members to clarify what their intention and what everyone wants.
Plant: they are the creative thinkers in a team. They find innovative and surprising solution to
the complex problems. Sometimes the plant misses the needs and wants of other members of a
team(Zhen, 2017).
Monitor: Monitor are the analyst of a team. They always analysis the situation and thinks and
make decision after deep understanding of situation.
Specialist: The person has a immense knowledge in his/her field. The person will provide
knowledge on a specific topic. Specialist does not care for the social activities.
Shaper: Shapers are passionate and willful. Shapers want to perform and look for challenges.
They make sure that the team meets the deadlines(Fiore and Georganta, 2017).
Implementer: Implementer is disciplined and task oriented. The person can be too practical and
conservative when they are not clear about the new ideas.
Completer Finisher: They have a unique talent, they know what will went wrong. They pay lot
of attention to details, rechecking and perfectionism. They monitor the quality and safety and can
sometime become overprotective and can experience difficulty in delegating work to others.
Application of Belbin to Kellogg's will help company to create a effective team and
successfully introduce modern practices.
The Tuckman and Belbin team development model will help company to create a
effective team which in turn will help company to introduce new practices within the
organisation. As modern workplace is essential to be introduced in the organisation therefore it
become essentials to prepare the employees of the organisation to accept the changes.
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