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Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................3
contract.........................................................................................................................3
from the data that the company possesses. This should include an evaluation of
current processes within Wirkkala for the collection, analyses, and management of
data...............................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................13
Recommendation........................................................................................................14
References.................................................................................................................16
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Introduction
The main purpose of this essay is to determine the principle of management within
the workplace of Wirkkala. The whole case study is based on their managerial work
promises which are needed to exchange among the parties such as mangers,
company confronts several issues and challenges. On the other hand, Wirkkala is a
small and medium-sized enterprise and has 178 employees across three sections
which they maintained and these are Head office, factory, and warehouse system.
retrieving the information. Therefore, all staff can collect all data like production,
customers, accounting and so on and then analyse and maintain them effectively.
After analysing them, knowledge has been built by utilising patterns of inference from
psychological contract.
to his or her belief about what he or she has to offer to the organisation. In return, the
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employees in the organisation. This contract will assist the employees to contribute
more to the company attractive inducement will be given in return to them. This
individual beliefs. Every small and big business organisations expect some quality
contributions from its workers and the workers focus on the promises made by the
employers of the organisation. Several research studies have been made to examine
to what extent an employee can contribute to the organisation. The research tried to
The psychological contract theory also examined the perception of the workers. Like,
their perception of contribution, how much they are obliged to work, their willingness
to contribute to voluntary work. Studies have found that meeting the expectations of
the employees are connected with the employee work satisfaction. According to the
view-point of the psychological contract, the employees need to evolve with the
have the knowledge and training to evolve with the change (Deng, Mao and Gan
2018, p. 03051). The organisations need to have a good concept about the
requirements of the employees. This will enhance the mutual relationship between
the worker and the employers. Thus, psychological contract theory helps to improve
relations. The Psychological theory can help to understand the opportunities and
threats of Wirkkala Company. There raises the question about what helps to shape
the preference for the elements of psychological contract theory. The insight can be
found in the Career Stage Theory (Bordia, et al. 2017, pp. 1447-1471).
In the career stage theory, each stage indicates an important segment of a career. This is
where the employees gain special attitudes towards the employee-employer relationship. The
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career stage model centred on two main characteristics of the attitude of employees, that
attitude is relevant to the career stage model. According to, Low, Bordia, and Bordia (2016,
pp. 1457-1481) these two characteristics are the responsibility of the employees to the
organisations and their requirements and needs from the organisation. The career stage
model describes the responsibility or work-task an employee will take in various stages of a
career. The employees of the Wirkkala Company also go through these career stages in their
work-life (Hislop, Bosua and Helms, 2018). The model also states that the worker will go
through the career stages of learner or trainee, colleague, adviser, sponsor. In the stage of
trainee or learner, the worker will mostly do basic routine based work. The colleague stage
will provide them with the responsibility to handle much larger or valuable tasks. In the
mentor stage, the employees have to guide other workers while performing their own tasks.
The sponsor stage employees will have bigger significance in influencing the organisations.
As the workers go through various career stages in their work-life they want to make
significant contributions to the organisation. As per, Kutaula, Gillani, and Budhwar, (2019, p.
100707) the career stage model implies personal concerns and aims related to improvement
among the employees. In various stages of the career model, the employees may go through
reconnaissance, formation, subsistence, and disconnection. The research on the career stage
model depicts that the employees have a keen belief about their requirements, attitudes, and
preferences. These attitudes may vary with different stages of career. This indicates that these
various stages of the career stage model theory may put a major impact on the psychological
contract theory. To link up a relation between the career stage model theory and
psychological theory the concept of socio-cognitive mechanism and role used. It illustrates
the requirements of the workers. The career stage theory is significant in shaping the belief
system of the employee and their attitudes. The idea of the career stage model is associated
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The Wirkkala Company has mostly young employees. They are very keen to adapt
knowledge and clear about their requirements from the company. The company believes in
cultural training, which helps to attract new skilled employees. The company has the spirit to
empower its workers by maintaining a well psychological contract. However, because the
Wirkkala company only focusing on soft values it is facing certain problems to achieve more
success.
Psychological contract theory is a theory that describes the relationship between the
employee and the employer (North and Kumta, 2018). It is very much necessary to have a
good understanding of the employee and employer in an organization. It also consists of the
have a good relationship with an organization, for example like Wirkkala as well. It is
other facts. The HRM section does have a very basic topology in any organization
that they hire the most relatable and most effective person to the work they will
provide. The understanding between HR and the employee is the root of any
is often observed that if the co-relation is very good in an organization no third party
issues can do any harm to the purpose that they are currently pursuing. It means
that the bonding is very strong (Wang, Yang, and Luo, 2017). The employer has a
belief in the employee and that is the ultimate expectation of the communication part.
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Understand is one kind of communication-related fact but it has a separate overview. The
necessary to make the employee understand what the work is about and how to complete that.
If the employee doesn’t understand that very well then the employee can face organizational
difficulties afterwards. So that is how the understanding works. Also, there can be some
essence of guidance in that situation. So these all terms consist of understanding. The
organization Wirkkala should realize this particular point and implement it to resolve the
This straightforwardness is a very tough one but one should stand in this position to run an
organization perfectly. It is always being a psychological war against the soft hearted
mindset (Wellin, 2016). It is impossible to run an organization without getting the perfect
and clear view of the organization to the employee. It is one key point the company Wirkkala
Now the organization Wirkkala which consists of approx 178 employees on the current date
is continuously developing with its highest potential. But being a small to medium ranged
organization it is facing fundamental, legal and some organizational issues. Here are some
effective suggestions tapped from the psychological contract theory which can lead to a better
The company is facing fundamental issues and annual turnover issues. It is very much
healthy juice and some other healthy food production, there needs to be specialists as well.
But there are some issues more effective specialists have the psychology of getting more
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salary by doing less amount of work. Here the theory says that if it is possible then try to find
the employees in a way that they have a very big necessity to work around as well as the
perfect mindset. So it will help the organization aspects and also help to resolve the problems
with funds. Also, the theory says that yes it is also possible that financial problems can
generate from the marketing competition as well. When this organization was started at that
time it was a very less amount of competitors for the healthy drinks provider purpose.
Afterward, the organization has more competitors who invest much more. So it becomes a
partial issue that generates the mindset to be down (Costa and Neves 2017, pp. 375-394).
The theory mainly focuses on the part of the employee-employer relationship, so it is very
much necessary to keep the best out of the best bonding among the employees. Being a 178
employee organization it should be much easier to maintain the relationship (Rai and
Overall, the organization is not very new to the healthy drink manufacturing industry. It is
recommended to have a very brief bonding to overcome all the circumstances coming in the
way of development. The strength of any organization is relation and belief. If the employee
and the employer have a belief in each other than nothing can harm a little part of the
deriving value from the data that the company possesses. This
Wirkkala, medium-sized organisation mainly offers natural fruit juice and fruit
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interoperability (Nørreklit, Kure and Trenca 2018, pp.1-6). The first one is the Head
office which maintains several kinds of data including the whole HR information
system like employee data, accounting data, suppliers and wholesalers’ data,
customers and marketing data. The second system of this company is a factory that
operates operational and technical, production data. Besides that, the warehouse
usually maintains its own suppliers' database as well as distribution network control
data like scheduling tracking, planning and many more. With the help of this three
information system, Wirkkala can able to collect all of the data and information and
then analyse and maintain them in a proper way. In that case, each information
system should get proper feedback and get appropriate data (Cooper and Ezzamel
2016, pp. 201-230). Along with that, they have to follow some procedures, database
theory, and tools which help in gathering all data smoothly. For the purpose, the
data.
Managers of Wirkkala follow the company prescribed rules to collect data. They
collect the data from the different sources inside as well as outside sources. After
collecting the data they keep the relevant data and spread out it out throughout all
To collect the data and implement the strategy they have to make a plan on how to
collect the data and what type of data. They have to make the plans regarding the
planning of the procedure of collecting the data (Wagner and Gillespie 2019). The
task is then properly organised into breaking down of works into subtasks and
deputed the right person to perform the job. Data is collected from inside as well as
decision is taken regarding the relevance of the data. It is a very important process
since the future activities of Wirkkala are fully dependent upon the result of the
collected data. The next process is the proper implementation of the decision taken.
The process is implemented according to the decision was taken by Wirkkala and
control measure is introduced to check the deviation. In this way, the managers of
Wirkkala collect, analyse and manage the data throughout several departments.
Human resource management collects the data regarding employees from various
Wirkkala decides to recruit people, asses productivity for promotion, staff salary, the
recommendation for training, etc. In this way, the HR department utilises data-driven
Data-driven culture is an operating system that can extract data whenever and
stands upon three pillars namely data governance, analytical capabilities, and
adoption of data. Data governance means the proper arrangement of data and the
the data of Wirkkala staff according to the requirement. After analysing the data, it is
checked whether data serves the right required information. If it meets the
requirement then the data is adopted and it is implemented. In this way data-driven
HR department collects the data from various sources and departments. The
authenticity of the outside is to be checked and the process is to be applied for the
inside data collection is to be examined. After that, the accountability of the person
for collecting the data is decided for the correctness of the data (Liebowitz, 2019).
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The collected data on the staff of the Wirkkala is stored in a central location in such a
extraordinary performances, etc. This is useful for promotion, incentives, training etc.
After the analysis, the final result comes out with the guidelines. The final result
coming out with the result of data analysis is within the prescribed parameter of
mitigated. The control path is created to implement the result properly. In this way,
the right information at the right places to take the decision, to set the skill, to
first step in knowledge management. The data is refined and become more useful
and structured. Then the data is showing more meaningful information in a concise
form which is useful for decision making and learning. When the data is applied for
decision making it is coming out with some result which helps us to gain some
Wirkkala has to make several decisions based on data provided at different levels.
The base level of basic data is a transaction processing system and office data. Data
created at this level is arranged properly i.e. MIS and send it to the upper level. After
compiling all the information, the management of Wirkkala decides the future course
of action (Shortland 2020, p.21). The decision taken is to send the next upper level
for approval. This level consists of the person with specialised knowledge. The
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decision is checked here with consideration of its effect on the company. This mainly
consists of the board of directors and after checking it properly they will approve the
decision. Thus the data is collected and transferred into knowledge for better data
management.
On the other hand, data is very important for the marketing of products since the
product is created according to the customers' taste, choice, preference, etc (Guillet,
and Shi, 2019). The marketing manager of Wirkkala can get the information by
survey, promotion and customer feedback with the help of several marketing tools.
After collecting the data it is to be arranged in a proper way to serve its purpose. The
work is to be subdivided to get the results more accurately. The success of the
product is depended upon various factors such as packaging, tastes of the product,
etc. Wirkkala is a food processing company and many departments are involved to
necessary to meet and implement the customer's feedback. To take action, Wirkkala
can track the status of the feedback. It can also create different channels for different
types of products and decides the key person for attending queries. Data should be
kept in the centralised system for easy references and analysis. Method of
analysing customer categorise the data according to the product, demography, etc.
cause of customers' dissatisfaction. Always check the market trend to meet the
preference of the customer and also develop the product according to the customer's
The factory of Wirkkala mainly focuses on ensuring its financial stability for enforcing
the planning, monitoring financial discipline and operates financial budgets. This type
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and handing all financial resources effectively. For measuring both operational
Scorecard Model (BSC). Through this model, they can able to collect and analyse
the data in a cost-effective manner. This balanced scorecard model consists of four
data (Weygandt et al., 2018). In this case, customers’ data is gathered from the
customers’ satisfaction level and their feedback regarding their current products.
Additionally, they also focus on building and maintaining a good relationship with the
users. By investigating the products if these are well manufactured. In the business
factory to keep tracking the delays, shortages, gaps, and wastages. Besides that,
financial data like income, sales, and expenditures are utilised to know the financial
their resources and checking how well data is gathered and how well the employees
utilise them to gain a competitive advantage within the industry. Moreover, this
company also collects information about both previous and exciting employees such
operational performances (Wellin, 2016). In this way, Wirkkala can know several
factors fostering their business performance and know the strategic changes by
predicting future scorecards. Along with that, a decision making procedure is needed
a profit and loss balance sheet, income statement, average analysis, ration
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analysis, cash flow analysis and many more (Grover and Kar 2017, pp.203-229).
By measuring the profitability, they can determine that their business makes profits
or losses. From this financial statement analysis, it can also be known that the profit
or losses of this company are enhancing or reducing. If any losses have been faced,
As Wirkkala is a juice processing company, they have to manage the raw materials
of producing the juice in their warehouse. They have to maintain the inventories as
well. In this case. They need to acquire several approaches by which they can
gather some important data about their inventories, shipping, packaging, order
management, production consumptions and many more (Wilson and Wilson, 2019).
The data should be reliable, relevant, accurate, updated and accessible on a real
time basis. They mainly utilise an automated data collection in their warehouse. The
warehouse management software helps them in collecting the automated data and
managing the data becomes more efficient. Along with that, they utilise barcode
systems to get accurate data about shipments, inventories and cycle counting. This
system is versatile and helps to collect their necessary data. However, they should
analyse the data to get the capability of their performance. They conduct warehouse
Recommendation
business organisation. In this case, the employees and employers both face some
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the organisation should not do any fake promises to its employees. If the
execute these promises and it will motivate the employees as well as maintain a
theory to cope up with the changing business environment and manage their
employees in a better way (Crain 2018, pp.88-104). They can offer their employees
with their employees to accomplish their job. Apart from that, the managers should
look after the flexible working hours of their employees and give proper
compensation which can maintain a good relationship. On the other hand, the
employees should be loyal and should have some eagerness to perform well and
accomplish their work within the deadline. In this way, the psychological contract will
like artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, and robotics to collect the data
more precisely. They can also analyse and manage their necessary data in a
Conclusion
Wirkkala. This company is mainly providing various flavors of natural fruit juice and
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issues, a weak relationship between employee and employer have been confronted
mitigate those challenges. By using the career stage model, this essay also
will help in understanding the employees’ interest and enhance the employee-
maintaining and analysing the data, Wirkkala becomes able to make a huge value in
the market and also predict future success. This will help them to expand their
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