Impact of Organizational Culture on Employee Performance in UK Retail Sector: A Study on Sainsbury

Business Administration
Dissertation

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................3
Background............................................................................................................................3
Aim and objectives.................................................................................................................4
Research Questions................................................................................................................4
Rationale................................................................................................................................4
Significance............................................................................................................................4
Dissertation structure.............................................................................................................5
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW...................................................................................6
Introduction............................................................................................................................6
Key themes and theories........................................................................................................6
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9

Title: To analyse the impact of organizational culture upon employee performance
within UK retail sector: A study on Sainsbury
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Background
Nowadays, there is an increase in the pressure put on by the employees over the
organizational culture. Individuals are looking towards working in an organization where
there is a good working environment and organizational culture. This is having a huge
implication over the performance and the productivity of the organization. The organizational
culture accounts for the assumptions, beliefs and the values which is being used for
interacting with the staff which helps contributing towards the social and mental environment
within the entity. Along with that, it has also been determined that the organizational culture
is having a significant impact over the overall performance, thinking of the employees and
the accomplishment of the desired organizational goals and objectives.
It has also been identified that the leadership principles also play an imporatnt role in
respect to either positively or negatively affecting the organizational culture. It is the
responsibility of the leaders to lead to team and in case, the leaders are not having sufficient
and relevant skill set required for handling the team. then it results into impacting the
working environment along with the organizational culture in an unfavourable way affecting
the performance of the organization as a whole. Thus, the selection of the wrong style of the
leadership results into incurring the risk of influencing the working environment in a negative
way. Organizational culture is not the only thing but yes, it is the most influential factor
which the organizations are required to keep an eye on, otherwise, it has the potential to badly
affect the performance of the employees of the organization which leads to financially and
non-financially affecting the organization.
The present study is in respect to analysing the importance of the organizational
culture and its impact over the performance of the employees and staff. This is in regard to
the Sainsbury organization which is operating its business in various locations. In addition to
this, there are thousands of people working for the organization which is the reason, this
organization has been selected. Sainsbury is into retail industry is the one of the largest chains
of supermarket and is headquartered in UK. The organizational culture causes direct effect
upon the performance of the staff so it helps to meet the desired aim. In addition, it very well
may be expressed that through organizational culture, organization can accomplish the