Unit 36: Evaluation of Organizational Design and HR at Syngenta

This report evaluates organizational design and human resource (HR) practices, using Syngenta as a case study. It explores organizational design principles, including the matrix structure, and assesses its impact on efficiency. The report delves into the importance of employee motivation and development, examining strategies such as training, development, and creating an attractive work environment. It analyzes motivational theories like McClelland's and Herzberg's, and how they are applied. Furthermore, the report investigates change management within Syngenta, evaluating how organizational design must adapt to change. It covers transformational and change theories and their implications for HR and overall organizational success. The report concludes with an evaluation of the relationship between organizational design and change management, emphasizing the need for alignment to achieve organizational goals.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Evaluation of with aspect of organisation design...................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Observation of requirement to develop motivated and knowledgeable as well as teams......3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Human resource is defined as those who motivate employee to perform well and maintain
a respected culture in an organisation. Human resources contributing significant role in the
business. In which they help to hire new employee and train new joined employee and make
them task oriented which is productive for the organisation. This help employee to maintain the
positiveness towards work and organisation. As per the reports, Syngenta is take an organisation
which is world base company and good representative of business they deal with plant science
business that promote the agricultural scenario which is based on research and technology. This
organisation have has their 24,000 staff member which is base on performing in over 90 above
countries (Brooks and et. al., 2016). This report is used to cover various organisational design
with various tool and techniques of developing human resources. Moreover, some of emerging
human resource's were nominated and noticed with various factor which affect the function of
human resources. This reports also include organisational design and management relationship.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Evaluation of with aspect of organisation design
Organisational design is termed as an efficient formulation that us taken by firm in such a
way to drive structure and create set of action in proper way which help organisation. It include
various of aspect like reporting pattern, delegation of task and complete target. Instant in rapid
decision-making which help to provide process new responsibilities. As per the Syngenta is is
necessary to develop maximum number of plan which is linked with overall objective of
organisation growth (Demerouti and et. al., 2017). This is an significant action which played by
organisation to develop organisational design.
In addition with this, organisational design help as a standard procedure which create the
path of structure. This provide impactful feedback to improve effectiveness of operation and
process which is going to driven in organisation. Syngenta is one of the leading company in
science related innovation. They used to create new strategies and new plan in various core of
agricultural. The significance of the organisational structure for Syngenta can be determined in
various method and ways which is described below:
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in which effective organisational designs give a clear image of various function and
operation which being used to reduce the wastage of resources. The time create positive impact
in performance of employee and effectiveness. In addition to this context, the upper level of
authorities of Syngenta is boosting morale of employee by visualising their objective and career
growth. As per this the benefits which will be seen at aside of Syngenta due their organisational
structure and model which support in increasing quality of product and services which is
approach bye organisation to achieve objective (Mauer and et. al., 2017).
Moreover, it has been analysed that the structure and design of an firm is depend in order
to enhance more higher development as well as growth in enterprise. There are various
categories which play various role and responsibilities which is linked with organisation
objective as per aspect with organisational design. There are various form of organisational
model and frames which is used by large companies that is divisional, matrix, functional
hierarchical and many more (Obeidat and et. al., 2016). In context with selected firm, it use the
matrix structure in such a order to gain activities and their process as well as operations.
Syngenta is planning to bring various new plan in organisation where they ready to adopt
new software that will help employee to access more information company creation so they can
easily develop something new and innovative which is different from marketplace. It is finely
observed that there are different categories of organisational design theories which is drive by
Syngenta for implementing new environment in organisation.
Transformation theory: In this, it is defined as the there is higher administrative people
is to guide member and employee and this develop positive changes in their respected
workplace. In this manager and leader play vital role in development of positive scenario which
provide best outcome by motivating employee and staff member for doing task in right direction
to gain maximum advantages (Santoro and et. al., 2018). In the perspective with Syngenta higher
executive head are need to recognise the potential of employee, in term of team and influence
them accordingly. In order to start new approach bring many of changes. This theory approaches
four factor which is based on inspiration, motivation due to which head are taking eyes ion their
vision and mission as well as to employee. In this second stage is defined as intellectual
stimulation in which it support new innovative and creative order to implement changes. The
third stage in this which defined the influence wherein manager belief that value are taken by
staff member. At last in this the individual consideration which being taken by leader to
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understand member that motivated by employee in order to accept changes and implement new
activities which is connected with it (hannon and et. al., 2016). It is analysed that the
transformation theory help in their respective organisation which instruct employee and bring
positive changes in organisation which help to create impact on their performance and
profitability of organisation. It is well organised that theory must be not successful if the leader
in not able to instruct employee what they want to do and how effective the work is measured.
Changes theory: This theory is defined as there are various stage which require excellent
learning to understand. As per this three stage are discussed. In which first stage defined as
unfreezing it state that staff member are being free form the recent techniques and tool which
they are used to formulate new place for new one. The second stage of this concept is defined as
the necessary modification which is being taken place by working on various skill, behavioural
approaches and attribute which create new changes. Th last stage defined as refreezing in which
employee or staff member are ready to learn and get compromised with changes and their
working procedure. This will drive Syngenta, they bring many new changes in effective way to
develop new core of knowledge and skill in appropriate manner which tend to enhance
performance of the selected firm.
From the above discussion it is analysed that the change theory help in various manner to
company to bring occasional and regular changes. They work effectively in organisation without
affecting performance of employee or staff member. In addition, all the stages are not properly
followed then it create complication in activities of organisation which associated with changes.
TASK 2
Observation of requirement to develop motivated and knowledgeable as well as teams
Employee are one of the major part of any organisation which help to perform various
functions and set of activities. This create effective and efficient performance in order to gain
maximum success and reach up to the objective within given time duration. It is very essential
form organisation to concentrate on continuous efforts in influencing the staff member. This help
him to motivated and also accomplished their organisational goals and enhance the market
performance (Singh and et. al., 2016). In this context, organisation also put their all efforts like
providing training and development, rewarding, career and growth of opportunities and so on. As
per aspect with Syngenta it is significant and full of effortless which provide focus on various
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requirement of staff member so it is easy to form an effective efforts on set of activities to
achieve the target view point. This also assist organisation to retain staff member for longer time
period and which maintain the image and performance level of employee within firm. There are
various approaches which being used by Syngenta for motivating and keeping staff member,
which is mentioned below:
Training and development: it is defined as an effective techniques of motivating
employee and engaged with work. This performance activity is prepared in an effective way to
accomplished the goals. It gain with organisation to increase skill, knowledge and core
competence (vom Brocke and et. al., 2016). With context to Syngenta, human resource's have
role to make records of employee performance which is used further for their promotion. In
addition, it also assist to respective company to make new employee which help in adapting
changes which leads to enhance productivity and profitability of organization.
Attracting the right candidate: This is defined as the organization while conducting
hiring they must try to position right person at their potential place who have skill and
knowledge to meet with single position which show their work ability. It will be analyze that if a
right person do their work then the productivity and overall performance help to create a generic
effective response for the firm and also enhance the growth of individual. Moreover, as per
context with Syngenta the employee are on their position by their work ability and their
performance which is based on their capabilities. They are set in their job role. In addition to this,
the information on its website and can develop appropriate job role and their responsibilities are
assisted and finding right candidate for this. By the help of such approaches, organization play
vital in motivating their employee. They are in such a way where the respected organization
planned to adopt new software and replace old one which is efficient to provide rapid and instant
service to customer. Employee focused to the purchase by customer. This help Syngenta adopt
various inspirational theory which help to inspire employee for accepting the new changes.
McClelland theory of motivation: This theory help to study about and include various
factor like achievement, affiliation and authority motivation (Vovchenko and et. al., 2017). This
help in first stage to achieve motivation where employee staff member are provided with various
feedback as per the performance of employee and this help him to proper improvisation. In
addition, employee ate ready to accept new changes in short period of time. In which another
stage is affiliation which emphaised by higher authorities of Syngenta by conducting various
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informal session among with employee where they can share their feeling and emotion. This
stage help him to feel relaxed and stress free. The last stage is power, higher authorities provide
some power to staff member so as per this they take necessary action on this.
Herzberg two factor theory: This theory is mainly deal with two authenticate factor that
is defined as motivation factor which act as satisfaction. Another one is hygiene as
dissatisfaction factor. The higher authorities of Syngenta must be emphasis on improving include
factor with the main aim to keep staff member motivated. It is major part of respective firm to
know the ensure hygiene factor like compensation, health, working conditions of employee
remains effective and as per the need of members. Moreover, there are various factor of
motivation which is being like personal and professional growth of member which must be
confirmed by Syngenta in order to be motivated employee for their task completion and also
active to accept the change which is associated.
TASK 3
Covered in ppt
TASK 4
Evaluation of how organisational design has to respond and adapt change management as well as
the relationship that exist among the two
Organisational design refers to the process of alignment of organisational structure in
order to improve efficiency of working of a business organisation. It is defined as the
methodology that is used by management of a firm to shape efforts of an organisation towards
success in it's planning function (Barnard, 2020). It enhances the working of the workforce with
a motive to increase their sales activities and provide maximum output from efforts been used in
the work structure. Change management basic collective term used for gathering individual
efforts of employees towards completion of organisation goals. It supports better use of given
resources of an organisation and shapes efforts produced by every employees towards success in
it's objectives. The company runes it's business activities in changing environment which
includes uncertainties of various environment such as political, social etc. Any sudden changes
in government policies effects the working of business firm externally and may lead to sufferings
of loss. Change management helps the business firm to implement changes in planning structure
of as per the changing trends in a business environment (Busse and et. al., 2020). It becomes a
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difficult task for management of a business firm to bring in new changes in their working
policies, as adoption of new policies might change in working procedures of their employees and
may add up to cost of production which will indirectly increase the prices in various product or
services offered to companies customers. In context to Syngenta, it's managers adopts various
methods in order to being new effective changes in organisation to cope up with dynamic
business environment. For bringing in changes effectively and without causing any disputes,
Lewin's model of change is been used:
Unfreeze: It is the initial step for implementation of changes in policies of company it
includes, motivating employees of an organisation towards moving out of their comfort zones to
transformation areas (Jorna, 2017). With reference to Syngenta, it's managers and leaders
motivates their employees by acknowledging them with importance and benefits of changes to
them as well moving organisation to a successful career. They spread awareness about necessity
of changes for operating business activities in an effective order. Effective communications plays
an important role in implementation of new changes by keeping positive attitude of employees
towards the business organisation.
Change: In this stage actual changes takes place that has been introduced in previous
stage. All motivational techniques provided by companies management benefits in this stage. It
helps the management of an organisation to implement changes in effective way without
hampering positive working of employees working in workflow (Moşteanu and et. al., 2020) . In
relation to Syngenta, it's higher authority works on an assumption that a business woks in a
dynamic environment and it is not easy to bring in new changes in an organisation keeping in
mind limited resources used in a business firm.
Refreeze: This stage includes moving to a stable environment after being in unfrozen and
change stage. This stage is a more stable stage where activities of a business firm are stable and
it's operations is based working on new changes been implemented in an organisation(Patrucco
et. al., 2019).
Different types of changes that impact organisational design
By proper identification of requirement of changes increases the probability of attaining
success in organisation goals. In relation to this various forms of changes are as follows:
 Transformational changes: This change suggest, that it becomes important for a
business firm to conduct proper research of it's business environment to mound
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companies activities towards it's success in planning function. In relation to Syngenta,
management of the firm implements various strategies for conduction of it's various
activities in an effective manner.
 Psychological changes: It refers to changes which is important in gaining knowledge and
identifying change resistance. According to this current employees working in an
organisation does not support any new changes in policies and also does not admit to it's
requirements. As a result it may lead to grudges in an organisation which will affect
efficiency of the business (Perez‐Valls and et. al., 2016). The employees of Syngenta,
also started understanding about new process and also acknowledge that change is
pervasive in nature. It also enhances their adaptability and increase flexibilities in their
behaviours.
Relationship among organisational design as well as change management
Considering the present situation of COVID-19, various companies are facing related
issues that disturbs their effective working towards achievement of goals and objectives of an
organisation. It posses various restrictions for performing various strategies and plans of business
organisation in order to boost up their sales activities. In regards to Syngenta, it's management
took decisions of granting permission for it's employees to work from there homes due to that it
has to implement various needful and important changes in it's workings (Randall and et. al.,
2020). It has been analysed that there were increasing working hours of employees as it save up
the time to travel. The employees of the firm were motivated to work towards it's growth and
development. Company showed growth in sales and was able top create good market presence
and served for their customers without hampering their products and services quality. If company
bring in new changes in it's organisational design it have positive as well as negative aspects
which are as follows:
Aspects of relationship among organisation design and change management
Positive aspects
 It determines that after bringing change allow an organisation in improving its
productivity among with profitability in efficient manner. There is an analysis in such
types of situations there is change in design of an organisation which is for direct
communication needs to take place. This can help in developing sense of confidence and
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leads to feel valued which in significant for enhancing the productivity along with
profitability of their staff members. Adoption of new technology in an organisation structure which is more focused on using
of technology which is able to help their employees along with company which is in
enhancing technical skills to improve their processes.
Negative aspects
 There are some of negative influence which is on relationship between organisational
design and change management. Staff member opposes the new technology which makes
change which is due to change in their pattern which make to learn new things which
requires effort and decreases the level of working which is one of the negative aspect for
the organisation.
 For bringing change in an organisation there is need to communicate with each and every
employee who are getting affected by such changes which creates quite difficulty in
proper communication with each and every employees individually which is not possible
and requires high cost to that organisation.
It has been determined that positive relationship assists Syngenta which is able to
maintain its performance at their marketplace (Henry, 2017). This helps in use the innovative
new technology which is able to attracting employees along with enhancing performance at
marketplace. FOR Implementation of such a change there the high authorities of Syngenta has to
use Bruke litwin change model. It is a model that is based on getting insights of the company and
the way they are related to each other at a particular pit of time while the change is being
implemented. In context to Syngentat here is following up of the functional structure that is
assisting and befitting the organisation for adopting any type of change at the organisation for
adoption of nay type of changes that is required in term of structure or overall formation.
Addition to it organization is also required to follow a participator type of design that can help
them in timely implementation of changes that is beneficial both for the organisation and the
overall workforce in long run (Al-Atwi and et. al.., 2019). Further, changes are inevitable part of
Every organisation that cannot be avoided in long rum. It is necessary to deal with the resistance
of change on part of employees that has to be minimized as it generally leads to delay in the way
changes are adopted across different levels and in different departments. The design in
organisation is always based on assessment of structure and then reshaping it by use of
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prominent methods, procedures and skill management on part of employees. This type of
scenario is very helpful for organisation in considering all the changes and further
implementation of activities in a smooth manner.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be analysed that main aim for every business organisation is
to maximize there profits by introducing various innovative techniques and by using trending
technologies in market. It is been analysed that management of business firm takes various
incentive in order to shape companies efoorst towards it's success implementation of it's plans.
Various motivational theories are been used by a firm such as Herzberg two factor theory and
McClelland theory etc. it helps the firm to implement changes in their policies by keeping their
staff motivated and to maintain positive attitude towards working of an organisation.
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