Project Management

Project Management

INTRODUCTION

Organizational environment refers to the forces that can build an impact. Forces invented opportunities and threats. Organizations dose not survive in isolation. It works with the on the whole environment.Scholars have divided these environmental factors into two main parts as,

Internal Environment

External Environment

In today's global economy, the environment is constantly changing and is no longer limited to an organization's own state or country (Ogbanna & Harris, 2003). Evans and Richardson (2007) recommend the PESTEL (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal) Framework to help organizations analyze the elements with the greatest effect on their structure. All of the previously listed factors create an amount of uncertainty within an organization. The greater the uncertainty, the greater flexibility and autonomy a company must possess at its lowest levels (Lysonski, Levas, & Lavenka, 1995). A flat, decentralized structure allows for many companies to “better handle effective communication, unexpected challenges, and change” (Englehardt & Simmons, 2002).

DISCUSSION

There are many factors which account for the positive results of Peri-Espana. Motivation has a big influence in the outcome that PERI has. Company executives have a high willingness to exert huge levels of effort toward the organizational goals. "We run a driving course, this is a cost, but it is good for the company as we have no accidents", this is what Hexel says in his interview. This is an example of an "organizational goal" PERI has. This organizational goal of having no accidents or at least have the minimum is transmitted to the entire company. They achieve this effectively through high motivation. Workers are learning on job safeness, gradually moving from one area to the other, understanding the basic concepts on the different areas. This highly motivates the employee, he or she knows more about his organization. It is important to note that during this safeness learning process, the laborer is supervised by a skillful foreman. Here one can see that PERI is giving newcomers strong support in order to achieve an organizational goal. (Kubrak, 2007)

PERI is quite successful in creating an environment that is responsive to what I believe, are the majority of PERI's workers needs. "The company gives them a job security that is difficult to find in the construction industry", this is mentioned by PERI's general manager. There is an environment of high self discipline and most importantly, elevated responsibility which is very important to install motivation amongst the workers. It seems that there is an almost perfect fit between the worker and the job at PERI.

PERI has a very low staff rotation. This is due to the great training PERI, gives its workers, causing a great motivation amongst them. Employees are motivated to learn more and to get better at what they do. PERI uses the so called "high commitment work practices" They emphasize in high communication flow and they give training for multiple jobs.

PERI has an important source of real competitive advantage against its competitors. They have the ability to actually implement practices that the other companies ...