Organisational Design Report: Analysis of HR, Strategy, and Amazon

This report analyzes organizational design, covering key elements such as organizational theory, structure, and the importance of strategic alignment. It delves into human resource (HR) development, exploring methods for attracting, maintaining, and rewarding employees, including motivational theories and practical techniques for workforce engagement. The report also examines contemporary HR developments, including internal training, career development, and the significance of work-life balance. Furthermore, it addresses how organizational design must respond to and adopt changes in management, emphasizing the relationship between organizational structure and change management. The report uses Amazon as a case study, illustrating how a large organization implements these concepts to achieve its goals. The report also includes an introduction and a conclusion, along with a list of references.

ORGANISATIONAL
DESIGN

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Importance of organizational designs theory, structure and fulfilling strategies:..................1
P2 Different approaches and techniques for attracting, maintaining, developing and rewarding
human resources to create a skilled and dedicated workplace:...................................................3
P3 Research and use contemporary knowledge to support evidence for emerging HR
developments:.............................................................................................................................4
P4 Organizational design has to respond and adopts the changes in management and define
relationship between organization:.............................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Organizational design is process which increase step-by-step identify the work structure,
procedure and about the system. The organizational design develop the business planes to
achieve goals and implement new changes in business. Those process improve the processing the
business and those people who including in. some companies design the process to improving
customer services, Operation performs by the employees. Design refers to the integration of
people and technology which use in business (Daft, 2015). Organizational design need to achieve
customer service, increasing portability, reduced operating cost, those environments where
engaged employees. The well organisational design need strategy to achieve goals and increasing
business.
TASK 1
P1 Importance of organisational designs theory, structure and fulfilling strategies:
Organizational theory- The organizational theory define an interrelated concept,
definitions that refers the behaviour of all individual and groups or subgroups. Those groups
interact with to all activities of common groups. Organizational adopts various kinds of theory
which are classical theory, administrative theory, bureaucratic theory, neoclassical theory,
Morden theory, scientific management theory etc. organizational plays a vital role in the success
of any company (Arthur,1994). Thus, the organizational theory help to identify he suitable
structure for organization, and they also efficient to deal with the specific problems.
Key elements of organizational design- organizational design's manager develops and
change their organizational structure. Those designs include the following decisions about the
elements-
 Functional departmentalization- In this defines the all organizations departments
functionality. All departments working on their fields.
 Product departmentalization- these departments defines mangers responsible of an area
within the organization depending of specialization.
 Geographical departmentalization- this groups refers the various departments directors
who handle responsible of their responsibilities.
 Process departmentalization- this groups basis of products and customers flow.
 Customer's departmentalization- In these groups defines the jobs on the basis of common
customers.
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Importance of organization design- The good organizational design and their structure
helps to increasing their productivity, communication, innovation. It also creates an environment
where people work effectively (Bamberger and et.al., 2014). As a smaller organization employee
has numerous responsibilities and they also adopt those responsibilities very well. Good
organizational design also maintained all the works effectively. In other hand Amazon is famous
social site where many kinds of products are available in effective price. Customers can attract
their products and purchase form them.
Inter- relationship between four elements such as people, structure, routines and culture-
Relationship between four elements those are created good organization. People who worked
with organization they try to increase their functionality and popularity, structure of organization
is attracted customers. Routines and culture defines environment of organization where all the
management work together without any problem. They all are elements make perfect
organization without it organization never increase. Amazon company also include all this
elements people who are work for the company, culture of company depend on employees how
they behave each other and work with honestly.
Evaluation of organizational design- Evaluation is based on strategies of making
organization more effective and short-run ideas. The also include the Plans to increase the
organization growth. Characteristic defines the organization working styles and skills which
effects on their company profiles. Evaluation of any organization refers the all individual who
are planes for develop new techniques and technologies. They ensure working of organization
and their effects of organization (Dekker, 2017).
Relationship between organizational structure and strategies- organization structure
defines their company growth and growth depends on company's employees it depends to how
they work. Amazon is small size of business to reach millions of customers. They daily shops on
amazon. Amazon provide customers to choose online products and order them, In addition
company offers home delivery service. This service attract customers to and increase their sell.
Now day's amazon become most popular online seller company. Their strategies to give the best
service for their people and best quality of products.
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P2 Different approaches and techniques for attracting, maintaining, developing and rewarding
human resources to create a skilled and dedicated workplace:
Motivation- Motivation is the reason for people desires, performs actions and needs.
Motivation is defines people to motivate for job, their need, special work or confidence. It is one
direction behaviour which causes person to want to repeat behaviour. One person motivate to
another person to achieve goals in their life.
Motivation, Human capital, knowledge management- Human capital is the collective
value of capabilities, and knowledge management is skills, life, experience and motivation of the
workplace, in other hand importance of knowledge management within organization.
Maslow's Motivation theory- This theory defines a hierarchy of needs of theory, this
theory of human motivation theory. It includes the five levels of human needs in their life.
Maslow defines a basic needs of people “self-actualization” like food, shelter, water, clothing
etc. this are the basic needs. After that “social needs” it includes the need of love, affection, care
and friendship. “Esteem needs” this needs like self-respect, confidence, achievements, power,
status, attention etc. People want power fame self respect in their life. “Safety needs” it defines
environmental and emotional safety or protection, job security, family security etc. “self-
actualization” this needs include the people want to other they talk with respect to them, they
want fame in their life, they want to become famous (Legge, 1995). All this needs are motivated
to people make changes and in their life.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation- Instinct and extrinsic are types of motivation. Intrinsic
motivation defines what ever a person do they enjoying or find it interesting. In other hand
extrinsic motivation is doing something achieve a specific reward. Intrinsic motivation is better
than extrinsic motivation because they define a what people exactly want In their life. For
example- people do shopping for their interest they having interest top do shopping. People
doing is what they having interest on them (Taylor and .,et.al., 2015).
Technique to attract workforce- Employees is important for any business organization.
Employees face major challenges when they consider the incensing difficulty of finding skilled.
And younger workforce with different about work, and growing population of older workers
heading towards retirement. A business can improve the ability of employees and management
this quality attract, retain and improve productivity to applying following process-
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 Provide positive working environment- Organization have to ensure the management
always provide their employees to better environments. So they try to better and quality
work.
 Rewards and right behaviour- In organization most of the employees do very hard work.
Management makes sure they time-to-time gives rewards them. And all the staff make
good environments and good behave to each other.
 Involve and engage- People are who aims to achieve goals In their they fully concentrate
to engage with work. They try to develop new techniques and technologies which is
increase company growth and popularity as well (Luthans and Doh,2018).
 Develop skills and potential- in organizations employees work with skills and potential.
They give their best for each work of company.
 Evaluate and measure- This include to measure employees work quality and conduct
satisfaction survey at least once a year.
Techniques to rewards employees- Some organization is give rewards without giving
them cash. They have techniques to gives rewards to their employees like pizza party, promo
party, tour time, Day of pass, thank you note etc.
P3Research and use contemporary knowledge to support evidence for emerging HR
developments:
HRD- Human resource development is department they helping employees develop their
personal and organizational skills, knowledge and abilities. They trying to encourage their
employees to develop their skills that helps to retain and motivate employees. Human resource
development also includes various opportunities for employees such as training, performance
management and employees career development, coaching, mentoring, succession, planing,
employees identification, tuition assistance etc. The Amazon human resource department adopts
all the company responsibilities they identify all the product's information and they also denote
all things are held on company.
Key criteria of HRD- The key criteria of human resource department is defined the role
of human resource department their working quality, responsibilities. HR. handled the all
employees responsibilities and their work (Marchington and et.al., 2016.). They also responsible
for employees problems and their inquires etc. HRD received increasing over the past decade
and a half. HRD calls upon and integrates existing theories to create its unique disciplinary. HRD
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responsible for all meeting which under provided by head of department they arrange all kind of
facilities of meetings and maintain all the facilities.
Hr. developments-
HR developments
Internal Training
Hr. Departments responsible for provide training to employees.
And they find ability of employees who work on organization.
They also provided books clubs at work, challenging work
assignments and coaching form the manager's. They develop
confidence in employees to face any challenges in their fields.
Career development
Hr. Gives opportunities for employees to career developments.
They adopt various challenges and understand the strategies to
increase business and achieve goals in organization. Hr. mainly
develop the employees personal skills, knowledge and abilities.
They help to increase chance to their career.
Statistics of work life balance- Work-life now days, most of the people manage their
work and balance according to their work. Here are the most compelling research and example-
according to Gall's state of the American workplace 2017, 53 percent of employees say a role
that allows them to have greater work- life balance and better personal well-being is “very
important” to them or As per the Rand-stand employer brand research report, 45% of survived
employees note good work-life balance as an attribute in gauging the attractiveness of an
organization (Storey,2007).
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P4 Organizational design has to respond and adopts the changes in management and define
relationship between organization:
Organizational design- The organisational design is included the process of any
organisations planing, developing and creating in new changes. The Amazon organisation is
provided online service to people. And they are having great retail online social site. The
company have strategy to design a great business empire (Cummings and Worley, 2014).
Company have strategy to design the huge business and develop them.
Organisation respond to change management- The organizational changes affect to
business and their resources as well. If the organization need to change management and all
process, first they need to examine the all changes and they trying to implement in their business.
The Amazon needed changes in their organisation they trying to rearrange there department and
examine all the employees working skills and make changes according to them (Anderson,
2016). The Amazon have to changes in there structure and re design it. Because of that the
organization increasing there working skills and make improvement in organisation changes.
Organisational adopts change management- The organization have to adopt many
changes in their management like employees training, employees management, work
management, team work and management rules and policies (Buede and Miller, 2016). The
Amazon also adopts the changes in their organisation like they are time to time change their rules
which affect to the company, they have change their employees according to their working skills,
shifting department, and increasing work management. Those are changes adopts organisation in
their management.
Relationship between organization design and change management- The main relation
between organisation design and changes management is what management design that is change
in the future. The organisation design to established a successful business according to planing,
creating and developing the business, in future the management require changing in business
they develop new strategy and follow them (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). The Amazon refer that
they having many changes in their business according demands of customers. They design new
strategies and change them.
Specific organisation situation- In the specific situation organization needed changes in
their business. For example- company having lot of stress of working and they needed for
employees to handled equally work. That time company appoint more employees and hand over
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the work. Amazon some of time faced lot of challenges they trying to faced them (Lewis,et.al,
2016). They appoint lot of employees faced problems of business.
Evaluation change management- The model of management evaluate how will changes
require to organization. The changes help to developed there aims by manager and employees.
The main factors that required for changes communication issues, clients rejections, clients
demands, services etc. Amazon company include evaluation in there organization. They evaluate
all the things in there business and rearrange it. The Amazon organisation also developed the
plan for evaluation and implement in there business (Wadsworth, 2016).
CONCLUSION
From the above investigation this is concluded the organizational designs defines the
process and structure of organization, which is included the all functionality of organizations and
their main aim to achieve the organization's growth and increase cost as well (Strauss, and
Thomas,1995). In this report also concluded the role of human resource department and their
responsibilities for organization and how they reward and retain employees into the organization.
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