Wesfarmers Organizational Culture Journal: Semester 2, 2023

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TASK 2
JOURNAL
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION..............................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................ 8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
The working environment of an organization depends upon the organizational
structure and culture followed by an organization. In Australia, Wesfarmers has been
listed among the largest organizations of the country. It was developed as the
Western Australian farmer's cooperative. It is headquartered in Western Australia. It
involves operations such as home enhancement and outdoor living. It also supplied
the general merchandise and industrial divisions providing the energy, fertilizers, and
chemicals. It has a total of 490,000 employees. The major objective of this
organization is to provide satisfactory returns to its shareholders (Collings et al.,
2017).
The aim of defining this report is to evaluate the strategies and procedures applied to
the organizational structure of Wesfarmers. In addition to this, the report also aims to
determine the theories applied to improve the overall development and growth of an
organization. It helps in providing a brief description of the main concepts implied
over the working structure of an organization (Collings et al., 2017).
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DISCUSSION
Trompenaar’s seven dimensions of culture model in Wes farmer Organization
On analyzing the organizational culture of Wes farmer, it has been found that the
current position of we farmer is due to the global financial recession that threatened
to grind up its operations to halt. This has been stopped by providing an effective
organizational culture.
The Trompenaar’s seven-dimension model helps in defining the cross-cultural
communication implied over the general framework of an organization. The major
seven elements defined over wes farmer are:
 In terms of defining relations to others
1. Universalism versus particularism
It helps in determining the obligations based over the social and the personal
obligations defined within the Wesfarmers
2. Individualism versus collectivism
It helps in determining the personal and the group goals of an organization as
per the changing cross-cultural trends in Wes farmer. It serves helpful in
defining the communication among the various members of an organization.
3. Neutral versus affective relationships (Islam et al., 2016)
It helps in defining the organizational culture of the Wes farmer organization
by defining the emotional orientation of an organization.
4. Specific versus diffuse relationships
It helps in analyzing the difference among the contract as well as the contact
defined over the working of an organization.
5. Achievement versus ascription
It helps in defining the effect of the on-going processes within an organization.
 In terms of defining time management
6. sequential/synchronic
The organizational environment defined over the basis of the time schedule
has been defined based on the synchronized and unsynchronized time. It
helps in determining the number of activities to be performed over the defined
organizational culture of an organization.
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 Relation to the environment
7. Inner or Outer directed
It helps in defining the orientation defined in terms of fusion oriented or
strategically oriented (Islam et al., 2016).
The motive of implementing this type of dimension over the organizational structure
of a Wes farmer is to define the new strategies along with the learning model. It
helps in connecting people and organization with the cultural innovation of the on-
going trends defined within the business structure and environment of an
organization. It aims to reconcile the opposing values within an organization.
This type of culture in Wes farmer has been defined to be dancing from one
preferred dimension to another (Myles, 2018).
Analysis of population and data over the demographics for international
managers in decision making of the Wes farmer
With a motive of providing the stability to the defined set of the marketing strategies
and conditions defined by the country, the analysis of the demographic factors within
an organization includes the factors such as the age groups, social class, gender,
education, religious affiliations and geographic factors defined over the working of an
organization.
The decision making of Wes farmer-based over the demographic factors is defined
as follows:
Age- In West farmer, the major focus has been made over the people belonging to
the age group of 18-24, 25-50 years. In this case, the people focusing on interior
designing and other factors belong to the age group of 25-50 years (Yeoh et al.,
2017).
In terms of diversity, the company has employed more than 4000 team members all
over the globe last year. In terms of the ethical sourcing, the company has audited
more than 5000 factories which are supplying business to the company. These
factors have been operated ethically.
The theory of cultural intelligence describing cultural intelligence
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As my analysis, the theory of cultural intelligence has been used to evaluate the
various cultural factors and components in an effective and developed way (Yeoh et
al., 2017).
Attributes of Wes farmer corporate culture
 The common attributes of corporate culture have been defined as follows:
 Providing respect and fairness among the employees
 Defining effective teamwork
 Providing learning opportunities (Waddington et al., 2018)
 Defining the meaning and motive of providing the organizational culture
 Providing an effective set of the strategies defining the adaptability of an
organization
 Defining the strategies which contribute to the decision-making ability of an
organization
Transformational leadership
In we farmer, the overall working and strategy of an organization named as the Wes
farmer is dependent upon the type of leadership followed and implied in an
organization. The transformational leadership is defined as the type of leadership
improving the motivation level of the leaders and workers working in an organization.
It helps in providing the changes based on the growth and development of an
organization. The leaders of the wes farmers help in increasing the motivation level
among the employees of an organization. It affects the overall organizational cross-
culture of an organization (Waddington et al., 2018).
In terms of diversity, the company has employed more than 4000 team members all
over the globe last year. In terms of the ethical sourcing, the company has audited
more than 5000 factories which are supplying business to the company. These
factors have been operated ethically.
In the Wes farmer, the major component of the transformational leadership is based
over the way of following the team-oriented concept. It has been defined as the
process in which the initiative by the leaders has been taken based on the working
ability and enhancement of the overall members of the team. It has been defined as
the major part of an organization affecting the overall working and organizational
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ability of an organization defined over the cross-cultural issues of an organization
with the motive of increasing the entire working and decision-making ability of an
organization as per the varying cross-cultural affects over an organization
(Waddington et al., 2018).
It helps in connecting people and organization with the cultural innovation of the
ongoing trends defined within the business structure and environment of an
organization. It aims to reconcile the opposing values within an organization.
This type of culture in Wes farmer has been defined to be dancing from one
preferred dimension to another (Quik, 2016).
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CONCLUSION
The aim of defining this report is to evaluate the strategies and procedures applied
over the organizational structure of Wes farmer. In addition to this, the report also
aims to determine the theories applied to improve the overall development and
growth of an organization. It helps in providing a brief description of the main
concepts implied over the working structure of an organization.
It involves operations such as home enhancement and outdoor living. It also
supplied the general merchandise and industrial divisions providing the energy,
fertilizers, and chemicals. It has a total of 490,000 employees (Quik, 2016). The
major objective of this organization is to provide satisfactory returns to its
shareholders.
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Myles, A., 2018. The world's newest economic superpower?. Company
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Quik, A., 2016. Examination of the moderating effect of country cultural dimensions
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