Lalanka Water Management (pvt) Lt - Organizational Bahaviour

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Lalanka Water Management (Pvt) Ltd was incorporated in year 1997 with the prime intention

of performing as a specialist and consultant on water treatment activities in Sri Lanka. This was after the pioneering company made steady progress thereby branching itself to meet the vital requirements in the water Purification field from time to time. As a consequence in addition to this main holding company, three subsidiary companies originated. Namely, Lalanka Solid Waste Management (Pvt)Ltd , Lalanka Laboratory Sevices (Pvt)Ltd, Lalanka

Engineering Co. (Pvt) Ltd.

Starting from a small beginning, LALAKA moves along with the ever advancing technologies in the sphere and was sensitive to the varying customer needs. As a consequence it embarked on varying fields Such as drinking water treatment, waste water treatment, sewerage treatment, chemical production, Swimming pool construction, water filtering equipment, etc. and these were located at different parts of the whole country.

Odiris Engineering Company is the pioneer and leading coconut scraper manufacturer in Sri Lanka since 1952.The Company established in 1952 as a sole proprietorship business and converted to a limited liability company in 1991.At Odiris, they focus on quality of the products ensuring the superior customer service together with consumer satisfaction and loyalty. This has been the driving force behind our success. Manufacturers & Exporters of Coconut Graters & Accessories, Gas Cookers, Kerosene Cookers, Kitchen Equipment. Importers of Bicycle Parts, Mild Steel Rods, Mild Steel Sheets, Stainless Steel Rods, Stainless Steel Sheets, Solar Lighting & Led Lighting Equipment & Accessories. Exporters of Coir Mats, Pots, Leather Bags, Leather Chairs. Suppliers of Steel Stampings. ODIRIS - the trusted name for kitchen gadgets with quality, durability and sleek finish.

According to this assessment they want to know about the structure and culture of these two companies. Both of these companies have the work specialization, Departmentalization, Chain of Command, span of control, centralization, formalization as the structure of the organization. As the culture of the organization they have innovation and risk taking, attention to detail, outcome orientation, people orientation, about team orientation, aggressiveness, stability. And how the both structure and the culture are supports to effect on high business performances.

Finally how individual’s personality and selective perception would definitely have some influence on his/her work life. Personality means the total pattern of characteristic ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that constitute the individual’s distinctive method of relating to the environment.

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LO1.1:- The structure and culture of two organization and comparison and contrasting of their structure and cultures.

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The Structure of Lalanka Water Management (Pvt) Ltd & Odiris Engineering Company (Pvt) Ltd

When the structure of the Lalanka Water Management (Pvt) Ltd. It have the work specialization. The employers are specialize the employees work such as the employers are grouped their company to several department and in there they are special there work. Then the 2nd structure the Departmentalization there is six functional departments. They were Market, Technical, finance, project, human resource & administration and factory. Then the 3rd structure is the Chain of Command. In the chain of command as the Chairman, then Board of Directors, then general manager, then the six functional managers, then their assistants and the other employees, then the 4th structure span of control they have the wide span of control. Then the 5th factor centralization and decentralization. In this company they were centralized. The chairman and the board of directors were the ones who make the decision. The formalization was the 6th and the last structure they have high formalization.

Then the Odiris Engineering Company (Pvt) Ltd in the 1st structure work specialization they were specialize the work as many ways. They were give them many trainings. Then the 2nd structure Departmentalization in the functional and production they divided these as Accounts, Administration, Sales (subsidiary company called Sri Products). Then the 3rd structure Chain of Command. In here they were also have chairman then Board of Directors then Chief operation officer then office administration and the factory then office administration were divided as Accounting manager, Administration manager and Sales manager. Then the 4th structure Span of control. In here this also have the narrow span of control. Then the 5th structure was Centralization and Decentralization in this company this also centralized. The chairman, secretary and the board of directors were the ones who make the decision. The formalization was the 6th and the last structure they have high formalization.

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The Culture of Lalanka Water Management (Pvt) Ltd & Odiris Engineering Company (Pvt) Ltd.

Then the Culture of the Lalanka Water Management (Pvt) Ltd. When the 1st Culture innovation and risk taking it is high in here. For an example in the in the projection sector they were using their own petal chemical. Then the 2nd culture is attention to detail. This was Sri Lankan, Family own company. Then let us get the 3rd culture was outcome orientation. In this company they were low. The 4th culture was about people orientation. In this company they were sometimes do the people orientation. The 5th culture was about team orientation. In this company they are highly focus into this culture. The 6th culture is about aggressiveness was in the high. The 7th and the last one is stability. In the stability they are not thinking only about the growth. They were doing welfare to the society.

Then let us know about the Culture of the Odiris Engineering Company (Pvt) Ltd. When let us get the 1st Culture innovation and risk taking it is high in here. Then the 2nd culture is attention to detail. This was local multinational (power decision masculine culture) and Family own company. Then the 3rd culture was outcome orientation. In this company they were low. The 4th culture was about people orientation. In this company they were sometimes do the people orientation. The 5th culture was about team orientation. In this company they are highly focus into this culture they