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refer the attachments1    MGT5OBR ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR     Assessment 3: Group Assignment    This group assignment requires you to apply theoretical concepts covered in the class to a fictional  business. This task gives you the opportunity to work collaboratively and to develop team-based skills.    You will work in groups of 4 to 5 students (subject to your workshop facilitator’s approval) to complete  the assignment.    Assessment Task    You will be acting as a team of consultants to a fictional global professional services firm with expertise  in accounting, auditing and tax advisory. In all aspects, the firm is comparable to KPMG. Your task is  to produce a report to advise the organisation’s Australian unit (a business comparable to KPMG  Australia) on what should be done to effectively manage employees.     In the report you need to:   1. Briefly describe the fictional firm.   2. Identify and analyse four key issues concerning the management of its employees.  3. Provide recommendations.     The report should have the following sections:   • Title page     • Table of contents     • Introduction  o State the purpose of the report.   o Briefly describe your fictional business. Choose a name for it and in your description  focus on aspects relevant to your subsequent analysis.   For instance, we know motivation is contingent on the types of employees. If you  choose to talk about motivation, you might describe the type of employees at your  fictional business.  o Provide a brief overview of the report.    • Issue analysis and recommendation  o Identify and analyse four (4) key issues concerning the management of employees.  Analyse each key issue using one organisational behaviour theory or concept. The  issues selected must be spread across at least 3 of the subject’s modules.  For each of  the identified key issues, provide recommendations for the Australian unit of the  fictional business.   o For each of the identified key issues, briefly describe the chosen theory or concept,  then explain in detail why and how it is relevant for the management of employees of  your fictional business. Finally, draw specific and actionable recommendations.  Coverage of each of the four key issues should be roughly equal in word count.   For instance, you may identify employee motivation as one key issue. To analyse the  issue, you might select one motivation theory from Module 3. You would briefly  describe the theory. You would then explain in detail why this theory is relevant for the  employees of your fictional business, and how you will use the theory to improve  2    motivation. Finally, you would draw specific and actionable recommendations for the  Australian unit of your fictional business.    • Conclusion  o Summarise the report findings.     • Reference list     You need to use the APA or Harvard Referencing System.     Length:  The total length of the assignment is a maximum of 4,000 words (+/- 10%)  (Title page, table of contents and reference list are excluded from the word  count. In-text citations are included.)    Weighting:   30% of your total mark.    Due date:     First Sunday of Central Examination Period by 11:55pm     Submission:   Submit via the LMS (Assignment Turnitin). Hard copies are NOT required    Format:  The document should be written as clear, concise report.  It is important that  your report has a logical flow and good structure, makes use of relevant  headings and subheadings, and that you write using coherent, integrated  text, avoiding grammatical and spelling mistakes. For reading (and marking)  ease please use a 12-point Calibri font with 1.5x spacing.    Marking Criteria:  Please refer to the LMS for marking criteria.                        MGT5OBR: Assessment 3 Marking Guide   Group Assignment CRITERIA*  A: Excellent (> 80 %) B: Very good (70 – 79%) C: Good (60 – 69%) D: Acceptable (50 – 59%) N: Unacceptable (

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Key management issues of fictional firm
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Key Issues Identified in Alliance Air 
a. Vagueness in the present and future strategy of the company 
i. Recommendations
b. Ineffectiveness in the feedback process 
i. Recommendations
c. Confusion regarding collective agreements 
i. Recommendations
d. Lack of behavioral motivators   
i. Recommendations
3. Conclusion
4. References
Introduction 
The time of being the king of the mountain has start changing. Even the biggest companies in the world are fighting harder to hold on the higher ground. The changing business environments has led to many organizational changes which many of them are not able sustain that can help in pursuing their path of growth. What has really happened at the core. Answer is pure and simple: Disruption. Disruption in technology, disruption in business process and disruption in customer preferences. The variables that affect business changes as organizations enter in different era of business. Some of them have been able to handle the change but some get succumb into it. 
The public sector companies like Alliance Air which has been operating in the country has been struggling recently with organizational issues. The company is 70 years old flag carrier of India which is owned by Alliance Air Limited. It operates with fleet of 95 aircrafts of Airbus and Boeing for both domestic and international destination. For long period of time, Alliance Air served to their customers without any competition and had monopoly in the airlines industry. Post 1950, government acquired 49% stakes in company. It was only when private players started entering the market and the market share has dropped down to 20 percent. The company operates in more than 50 international destinations across 4 continents. In the last 50 years the airlines have operated from war times to situations where natural hazards have occurred to assist the general public. When the economic situation changed in the country, the company was tried to re-privatize in 2000.
Last 15-20 years has been a tough time for the organization. The company top management people were charged with corruption which led to huge losses for the airlines. The management changed it strategy considering low cost players entering the market by introducing low cost airlines which operated in part of Middle East and Southeast Asia. The airlines has suffered huge losses in past decade. The losses in single financial year has been as high as US $120million. There have been various changes in management to cope with the rising challenges that the company has been facing. But the debt has been on a rise and this has raised the worries of stakeholders of the organization. The government has made efforts by interfering in the operation of the company but realized that the organization has been struggling internally due to poor management and leading to poor operations. (Backx, Carney and Gedajlovic, 2002) The changes that have been made has gone in vain due to lack of ownership in the people of the organization. The blame game has started leading to no where situation for the vintage airlines. The latest development has been government orders of privatization of the Airline but first they want to make improvements in the organization internally. The officers have understood that the company management has failed big time and are motivated to bring the airlines back on track of business. 
This report is analysis of the major issues that the company is facing in current scenario which they have not been able to come out from a long time. The information has been gathered by understanding various aspects of organization like leadership, management style, decision making, culture, financial structure and organization behavior. At the end of the report, recommendations are given for addressing these challenges in order to improve the situation of organization internally. This is important for any major change that higher management brings to bring the business back on track. Any business development might not sustain for longer term if these issues are not addressed at first place by the management. This report does not guarantees for any organization development but only suggest ways on how improvements can be made to follow the path of progress. The research has been done exclusively considering the factors that directly impact this organization and may or may not work for other even if the problem statement is same. The reason behind this every organization face different set external environment even though internal challenges might be same. The solution provided if worked for one might not necessary work for other. Hopefully, this will be the start of bringing your organization back on path of growth and we can come to your help in reaching your ambitions in the years to come ahead. 
Key Issues Identified in Alliance Air 
The company has been struggling with multiple issues related to management and administration. This has been hampering the performance in direct or indirect ways which are influenced by financial history of organization, and culture of management within this sector. Apart from this, employees from various management levels including both unionized and non-unionized employees, when start losing faith in the process makes uniform performance even more tough to execute. (Cong and Pandya, 2003)The analysis done by taking feedback by various senior level executives and middle level managers has led to identify to four major challenges that are inhibiting Alliance Air to effectively perform in the industry: 
1. Vagueness in the present and future strategy of the company 
2. Ineffectiveness in the feedback process 
3. Confusion regarding collective agreements 
4. Lack of behavioral motivators   
1. Vagueness in present and future strategy
There are many occasions in the company when decisions are taken for the organization by the top level executives but the public servants are not uniformed about the strategy and future plans. There has been lack of communication of organization leaders to their employees regarding the strategical changes in the organization and the actions that are required from the employees in order to achieve the annual or quarterly goals. The gap that has been created due to this miscommunication has led to misalignment between the goals of employees and organization’s strategy. When employees were interviewed about the company goals, deep lack of clarity was observed in the employees on their key priorities. There was no decisions that could be made on the initiatives that need to be taken from their side and keep their focus on. As a result, the efforts taken by employees lead to efforts in achieving goals which might not be required or are not aligned with the company goals. The time they spend and the resources they utilize to complete the task are not being utilized wisely as the efforts do not contribute towards the plans of organization. Also, on achieving those employees often feel overwhelm but the sense of direction has been lacking throughout the process in them. This also brings them to risk of losing their motivation after certain period of time as the efforts they have put in past have not brought the required results that the management is aiming for. This vagueness results in decreasing employee performance over the period of time due to lose of interest and loss of confidence in bringing effective change in organization. (Llewellyn and Tappin, 2003)
Recommendations: It has been realized that communication of organizational goals in isolation cannot bring changes sufficient enough that can help in alignment of performance. When the employees realizes that their efforts are impacting the organization in specific method their actions are automatically motivated to work in the direction of progress.

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