Report: Induction, Leadership, and Organizational Culture at Cadbury

This report delves into the critical aspects of managing people within organizations, focusing on strategies like effective induction and training programs, and diverse leadership styles. Using Cadbury as a case study, the report examines how the company's approach to these areas impacts employee engagement and overall organizational culture. It explores various leadership styles, including autocratic, democratic, transformational, and transactional approaches, highlighting their influence on workplace dynamics. The analysis further investigates the impact of organizational structure, specifically a flat structure, on company culture and employee performance, weighing the advantages and disadvantages. The report emphasizes the importance of HR managers understanding and implementing these strategies to foster a productive and positive work environment. The conclusion summarizes key findings, emphasizing the role of appropriate leadership styles and training programs in achieving optimal employee management and organizational success.

Managing People
in Organisations

COVER CONTENT
 Introduction
 Induction And Training Programmes And Challenges
 Understanding of a Range of Management And Leadership
Styles
 Understanding of how Organizational Structure Influence
the Culture Within Organizations
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
Managing people in organisations refers to planning, leading,
organising and controlling manpower at workplace that may
help a company in running or doing business effectively at
competitive market. In modern world, it is vital for every
single firms to keep on managing its staff members with the
help of training, developing incentive plans and many more.

INDUCTION AND TRAINING
PROGRAMMES AND CHALLENGES
In this context, a case study of
Cadbury has been taken. A
multinational confectionery
company which is
continuously expanding its
business at international level
sometimes needs to keep focus
on its employees.

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Induction : In terms of business, induction refers to delivering
information to new recruited employees about the firm's
vision, mission, job role, purpose and business of the
company. Here, it has been analysed that Cadbury's induction
training is helping company to deliver new employees with a
creative and positive atmosphere, address new job concerns,
enhance comfort level, share Cadbury's values and plans for
the future that the company is having.

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Mainly, there are two types of
training programmes that
Cadbury gives to its
employees with keeping an
aim of enhancing knowledge
with performance:
 On the job training
programmes
 Off the job training
programmes

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In order to overcome these challenges, it is required for HR
manager of Cadbury to keep its focus on delivering right
training to correct employees on the basis of required areas
where training is majorly needed.

UNDERSTANDING OF RANGE OF
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP STYLES
When a business firm looks forward to improve employee
engagement, it becomes vital for HR manager and other
supervisors of the company to use number of leadership styles
and need to understand the whole range of management so that
higher benefits can be grabbed easily.

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Away with this, a number of leadership
styles that majorly followed by HR
managers of different companies
are given below:
 Autocratic Leadership Style
 Democratic Leadership Style
 Transformational Leadership Style
 Transactional Leadership Style

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Transformational Leadership Style : This is being considered as
another theory of leadership style where HR manager of a
company majorly works with teams so that to make changes.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
INFLUENCE CULTURE IN FIRM
Organization structure always
influences the overall culture
of the organization as
company in the company
Cadbury the top level of
management is place at the top
most floor of the building for
the safety and security reason
of the important document.

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In context to Cadbury, the chocolate company is following flat
organisational structure. It emphasise that company is not
following any of the level between top management and staff
level. This says that company do not supervise its employees
and tries to involve them in decision making process the most.