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Wilson Brothers – Case Study

Introduction to Organizational Behavior

Using the case, respond to the following questions:

1. Organizational Design and Structure (Advantages and Disadvantages)
2. Job Design (Use of Job Design Principles to Impact Employee Motivation and Employee Engagement)
3. Decision Making (How decisions are made and communicated)
4. Equity (Specific issues related to perceived fairness in the organization)
5. Organizational Culture (Culture(s) within the organization and the effect of the culture(s) on organization performance)
6. Organizational Change (Analyze any significant change- current change being implemented; a recent change already implemented; changes being contemplated for the future)
7. Work Groups/ Teams (The existence of group or teams in the organization and their effectiveness)
8. Conflict (Evidence and effect of conflict in the organization and how it is handled)
9. Leadership Style (Leadership styles of owners)
10. Power, Influence, and Motivation (The types of power used by the Wilson Brothers and how they impact and influence employee behavior and motivation)

Organizational Design and Structure (Advantages and Disadvantages)

Globalization and economic crisis have forced Wilson Brothers to rethink its strategies and change the ways in which the organization is designed and structured as well as how they operate.  Wilson Brothers Limited started diverting their focus from the market to products and the competitors. As a result, many piecemeal transformative initiatives were launched instead of switching and advancing the overall organizational design and structure (Argyris, 2017). The company structure, duties, roles, and functions became realigned with the new company aim/objective. Currently, the company is expanding its food supply to outside the US, Europe, and other international markets in an attempt to ensure that all available global markets are exposed and adequately reached (Jones & Jones, 2010). The company has succeeded both locally and internationally due to the use of advanced organizational designs and structures that conform to the nature of the market and this is a major advantage of the new structures established by the company. The use of systems approach helps the company gain these achievements.

Job Design (Use of Job Design Principles to Impact Employee Motivation and Employee Engagement)

The manner in which a job is designed significantly affects employee motivation, employee engagement and commitment to the firm, workers turnover, job satisfaction, and absenteeism. Managers are tasked with the responsibility to plan the work which is supposed to be undertaken by the employees. In this case study, the company has….Continue Reading….