BA Business: Individual Case Study Analysis of Tesco (UoS)

This case study analysis examines Tesco, a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer. The analysis delves into various aspects of the company, including its management styles (autocratic, democratic, and participative), principles of management (division of work, discipline), and functions of management (planning, organization, and controlling). It explores the organizational structure, including functional, divisional, and matrix structures, and analyzes the impact of the CEO's decisions on the company's structure. The study also describes leadership styles (directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating) and their effect on organizational effectiveness. Furthermore, it analyzes the effects of power, influence, and conflicts within Tesco and discusses different types of motivation used within the firm. A literature review and recommendations are also included to provide a comprehensive understanding of Tesco's operations and management practices.

Individual Case Study
Analysis

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1. Examine the management style and state of principles and function management assorting.
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2. Analyse the steps to taken by CEO in regards towards organisation to structure in order to
accomplish goal...........................................................................................................................3
Impact on organisation structure:.....................................................................................................4
3. Describe the leadership style enhance organisation effectiveness..........................................4
4. Analyse the effect of power, influence and conflicts in chosen firm. .....................6
5. Discuss various types of motivation used to chosen firm.......................................................7
6. Assess literature review. .........................................................................................................8
7. Suggestion and Recommendation...........................................................................................9
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The term organisation is structure where group of people who work together where
together where relatives and professional peers through associate, involving in social causes like
charity, act of forming regulation that incurred that helps to attain business related goals (Bigby
and et. al., 2019). It also refers towards system of better arrangement order to accomplish
objectives for classifying things.
As per report, organisation is consider Tesco, it is trading of British multinational
groceries and general merchandise retailer headquarter from Welwyn Garden city, England. It is
commence as third largest retail business which increased gross revenue as counted 63.911
billion pounds within acquire total workforce 450,000 are connected to actively working
onwards overall globally (Ceaser, 2018). In this report, overall topic is having consideration
about management style and state principles which is assort to function of management. Steps
involved to highlight about organisation detailed structure in order to accomplish better
performance along with state for change in organisation culture. Leadership style use to enhance
the organisation effectiveness to attain better goal. An effect of power, influence and conflict in
organisation. Various towards motivation assort firm. Corporate examples onwards literature
justification and recommendation elaborates.
MAIN BODY
1. Examine the management style and state of principles and function management assorting.
Management is practise which enhance to managing of working in organisation activities
for mapping challenges and opportunity for major attain competitive goals. Functions which
involve in to help monitor and control through planning, staffing, organising, directing and
controlling for overall Tesco company activities effectively handle through to getting better
outcomes.
In following there is highlight about management style that driven through Tesco company:
 Autocratic management style: As per this type of management that majorly follows to
making top down approach through better communication from superior and employees.
This is one of most important aspect to control through department where effective
decision holding all over power (Eigentler and Sherratt, 2020). As perspective of Tesco
company, employees are allows to share their suggestion, doubts and other factor asking
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professional or work related quires that helps to major improvement to better
commencing working objectives.
 Democratic Management Style: In this style manager uses to encourage employees for
giving through during the decision making process that undertakes which having
ultimately reliable towards approaching final decision to attain better goal
accomplishment. There is flexible function of flows in Tesco premises as advises,
suggestion and ideas that form better decisions.
 Participative Management Style: On the basis of style managers and staffs are in
active way to decision making process towards getting better innovative where more
information towards gaining better goals and are encouraged to innovate solution
(Gandhi, 2019). In terns of Tesco company their environment of working that enhance
to better evaluate to major approaching better decision enhance through top level
management or superior one with consulting from employees.
Principles and Function of Management.
As per the principle of management is defines about to create workplce environment into
better compliance and discipline manner that helps to employees for approaching their working
in different way of presentation. Some of management principle that follows by Tesco company
towards better follows for better working accomplish in better way:
 Division of work: This principle is provides about approaching work on the basis of
dividing objective through leads better specialisation and helps to better increase about
efficiency to seek better result towards better attain about productivity and profitability
about organisation (Hadjichambis and Reis, 2018). As to follows the principle in Tesco,
managers usually divide their work on basis of productivity and employee capabilities.
 Act of Discipline: It major meaning about respect rules and regulation that follows
towards companies on which to enhance to follows informal agreement for better
working self discipline. As in Tesco employees and manager discipline, good and
supervision and impartial that are judgement are essential traits.
Functions of Management:
 Planning: The major role Tesco manager is creating a plan or design to company
aims and objectives. The involves allocating employees resources to allocation to
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standard for accomplish. Planning requires in those in management roles to conitusely
to check to making small adjustments.
 Organisation: After the planning a manager organisation skills of employees and
design to significant for commencing business through better arrangement to execute
all task in accomplish manner in Tesco company.
 Controlling: To measure about all function that are working to measuring success for
company managers and should major perform in Tesco by identifying all negative
aspect to accomplish in better way to accomplish outcomes.
2. Analyse the steps to taken by CEO in regards towards organisation to structure in order to
accomplish goal.
Organisation Structure: This is defines how activities such as task for effective
allocation, coordination and effective supervisor which are effectively directed towards
achievement of organisation aims that needs to aims sustainability (Hein and et. al, 2019). It
major affects organisational activities enhance better provide effective function on maintain
standard operating procedure and routine rest. In perspective of Tesco CEO to successfully attain
between level within company.
Types of Organisation Structures
 Functional Structure: It is one of common trait about organisation structure which is
highly implemented in actual working scenario. The first and most common is functional
structure in effective manner. As per referred towards as bureaucratic organisation
structure and segregate company in order to specialisation of working regulation. In
Tesco company small and medium size of business that implementing function structure.
By approaching administrative, marketing, sales and distribution to enhance better
working regulation to attain high objective accomplish.
 Divisional Structure: This is second type that allows variety of common large
companies with having different business units that enhance to called high method
structure according leadership team based products, various other project or subsidiaries
where they operate effectively. In context of Tesco their leaders and mangers to better
uses to certain method and operate where huge business development.
 Matrix structure: This is tend to third phase of organisational structure where it majorly
confusing at least assort in superiors and other different employees are across superior,
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division or department. An employee where working of Tesco as some employees
enhance to better working attributes for handling better interaction with customer with
high attainment of outcomes.
Impact on organisation structure:
In situation of Tesco company, their Chief Executive Officer that enhance to make better
structure that implement towards in workplace environment that is accommodate to helps by
better attaining positive outcomes for more better scenario by approaching Functional Structure
towards employees and superior where they could better retain employees for longer period of
time (Mahon and et. al ., 2017). By applying functional structure in their working premises to
better attain for better growth and that enhance better outcomes reach to increase their
productivity. Superior and employees towards they get to assigned work as per their capabilities.
The Tesco organisational structure is having Task oriented culture that mainly follows to making
allocate better resources provide through which they all presumes work objective in order to
follow guidelines in effective manner.
3. Describe the leadership style enhance organisation effectiveness.
Leadership; It is an framework about design and art of living of people towards
accomplish a common goal. As per business premises, it creates a valuable meaning towards
working and colleagues win a better strategy where to attain optimum aims of company goal that
mainly required by company essentials. Some of leadership skills and having objective that is
important towards attain high standard goals through improvising skills and knowledge influence
for entire working premises to clarity about better accomplishment of goals and objective
(Nardelli and Broumels, 2018). There are some major leadership style that follows by Tesco
leader to accomplish work aims and objective:
 Directing Leadership style: These traits of leader are not having concerned with skills
essentials as there is one individual ones who passes order to passing style of
management as it needed to accomplish. It also ensures about major requirement that
enhance to major instruct about important direction to employees for attain high works
objective accomplishment. As per Tesco leader they making all clear about question
which outcomes is generally rectify by workforce that having aims clarity.
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 Coaching Leadership style: In this style leaders are having their vision or create better
direct to better accomplish that effective vision to objective they first sell to need for
accomplish objectives as per accordingly. Their first needs to sell their ideas and
valuable information that bringing better knowledge to effectively conversation towards
better communicate for building trust between superior and employees . In situation of
Tesco leaders are more further mapping situation in working premises for more enhance
better self belief that helps to better accommodate resource (Oxenham, 2017). In fact, to
ensuring that employee must motivate by refined vision about to making ending goals
and better accomplish.
 Supporting leadership style: According to this leadership style, sharing of thoughts,
ideas and solution where group where there is having final leader that major inspiring to
concerned better leadership. For Tesco leader is effectively achieve to better attain high
rate of outcomes accomplish they require to design productive way of decision making
towards improve that enhance better accomplish high accountable and better outcomes.
Through showing long time support by making them guide or providing optimum
influence.
 Delegating leadership style: The delegation is an better leadership style which is know
as better used of leading team that used for having senior leaders ones are director or
manager. Because there is quite certain direction which is aligned to support on basis of
fully trust decision making from better abilities of individual or team (Spratt, Devaney
and Frederick, 2019). This is having Tesco reliable where it leads towards by passing of
working division from manager to employees to an individual competency basis for
better increase performance for matching up high objective attainment.
Evaluation :
As per above leadership style that allows to more engaging leaders in Tesco company is
having Coaching Leadership style, this style is helps to provide leading for better gain high
amount of objective accomplish where higher authority that enhance better final decision to get
better decision making for scrutinize all challenges and opportunities that comes under to
making up mind for different strategy and implement manager motivate to attain outcomes.
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4. Analyse the effect of power, influence and conflicts in chosen firm.
Overview of Power: It is involvement of ability by making thing happen through one
perspective through getting approach by someone other through along with having beneficial for
organisation where manager allows to enhance assign that undertakes all decision making
towards accomplish outcomes to success. In situation of Tesco company where manager allows
high decision making that evaluate to attain high positive outcomes and to better control better
employees interaction their job duties and responsibilities for measure performances as well as
superior of each department deliberate through getting challenges all situation towards better
way for designing optimum decision making.
There is different bases of power by using through different situational aspect by approaching by
manager of Tesco:
 Legitimate Power: This power that comes under to one organisation major roles and
responsibilities (Szeto and Cheng, 2018). As per situation of approaching individual
power to assign by having high authority position.
 Reward Power: According to this ability to having better reward structure that promotes
to increase in pay structure, perks , intensive to making interactive within organisation
taks or any form of project in better effective manner.
 Coercive Power: As per this towards ability to undertakes something away punish
through other non compliance. By intent to implies coercive applies where through fear
and other people is having something that constant basis towards manager or dictators
who threaten physical harm for not implemented non compliance.
Influence : This influence factor arises that to attain high challenges and opportunities driven by
positive working environment as well as mentoring through engage by employees for attain high
objective accomplish (Tazzyman and et. al, 2017). As in Tesco company it get impact of
influence through decision making, designing all working attributes that is essential towards
employees work satisfaction along with it increase the positive way of alignment to better
positive achieving aims and objectives.
Conflicts: It is arises when organisation is faces high rate of conflicts that allows to major
involves huge barriers in terms of grievances, negative workplace environment, baiseness and
discrimination factor to making distract employees from their objective accomplish. There is
some factor of conflicts that contain positive and negative factor:
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 Diffusion of serious conflicts : this is one of positive traits that enhance better moderate
way of attitudes which is implement through competitive situation where better
conflicts parties by having clashes between interest that can resolve by manager by
divide their work in different segment.
 Assessment of Power: As per situation of conflicts, the relatable ability of power arises
when two parties involved that can be identified to be measured.
Negative Effect of conflicts:
 Through upbringing of smooth working practises can reflect that employees will takes
responsibilities for granted.
 By not approaching fair judgement or performance appraisal or having baiseness and
discrimination in current working.
5. Discuss various types of motivation used to chosen firm.
Maslow Hierarchy Needs: According to this concept theory where hierarchy of needs
where it stats about the major or having motivated towards fulfilling overall needs that need to
achieve to better creates moving on to other more advanced needs that more achieve overall
objectives that enhance more expand aims to increase satisfaction:
This theory is describe on context of Tesco company perspective:
 Physiological need: It is a need which is reflecting about involves towards those
aspect that involves vital sources that some of important way to measure fulfil food,
water, shelter that major attain by employees of Tesco which expect from them to
follow psychological needs.
 Security Needs: It is second way to refer about through other requirement is
expecting satisfactory security and safety becomes primary source where people is
major focuses on effective security contributes (West, 2019). As per Tesco ensures that
they provide job related security such as work insurance, allowances, better health
awareness and apart from safety against and injury to get motivate in effective manner.
 Social needs: This is third stage of need which comprises about acceptance and
belongings. Meanwhile, Tesco provides positive and friendly working environment in
which employees makes their interaction with their peers ones and superiors too. The
individual one is expected that to seeking for friendship, romantic attachment, family ,
social groups, community groups with churches in organisation.
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 Esteem Needs: At this level of fourth is self satisfaction stats that better enhancement
of need appreciation and having gain huge respect from others (Willsteed and et. al ,
2018). Similarly, in situation of company like Tesco once appraisal get succeed of an
individual employees with having respect and appreciation, feeling of apperception
important to leads towards personal worth that having better positive outcomes.
 Self Actualisation: According to this valuation is highly considered when capabilities
are better approach self actualisation needs towards better full potential as human
beings from use of exploitation of talent through such fulfilling themselves and to be
doing the best capable of doing. In perspective of Tesco, people who having depend to
better developed has full stature which is having high competencies.
Types of Motivation
In following there is types of motivation that majorly prefer about better highlight to assort in
Tesco company: Training and Development: As per this sort of providing learning assumption and
interaction that helps to improvising skills and knowledge along with it all consider to
making measurement under effective leader guidance. This sort of practise helps ti
increase individual employee productivity.
 Rewards: It is only happen when employees uses to major assists by manager and leader
along with enhance better performance that optimise positive outcomes in behalf of that
managers or superiors are reliable to pay rewards that increase motivation as well as job
satisfaction.
6. Assess literature review.
As per undertaking about better in above section where the it discussed in different
alternatives about towards management styles where it measure to implemented towards gaining
high attainment. Democratic and Autocratic management style which is essential that shows
about Tesco's manager as how they implement to their policies for mapping performance and
other productivity outcomes generates. Better organisation structure that describes through
measure towards highlight Functional structure follows it defines Tesco is having various
department that applies their working regulation to approach high attainment of goals.
Leadership styles like coaching way to making employees instruct for reflecting that leader of
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Tesco is having major role to better enhance systematic manner of leadership skills practise to
improve individual skills and knowledge.
7. Suggestion and Recommendation.
To provide optimum recommendation about above measuring situation that allows high positive
outcomes which helps to measure that approach Leadership Style with Motivation practises.
This is using because in Tesco company there is high attainment towards making approach of
getting better allotment for improvising that helps to gain high objective acquired (Yeoman and
Carvalho., 2019). By provide them high positive influence of leader and manager that effectively
creates to get more interaction with employees and superiors for better relationship as well as
enhance of fair judgement that direct increase fair judgement. For fulfilling overall attainment of
clear out all doubts and to practise all productivity optimised effectively.
CONCLUSION
From above report of Organisation Theory and practise that describes to making all
management practises like style and function works in retail industry to rectify overall judgement
that better attainment to get overcame for improvised about high source of working productivity
enhanced for positive outcomes. Organisation structure of oragnsiation plays an important role
tio better systematic attain overall high outcomes generates which considered functional unit. By
approaching leadership styles that enhance through power that allows high positive outcomes by
leader having influence in effective manner. At last overall Power, conflicts and types of
motivation elaborates in context of retail organisation for increase individual motivation enhance
in effective manner.
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