Organisational Values and Behavior of John Lewis Partnership

ORGANISATIONS AND BEHAVIOUR
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Executive Summary
Organisational behavior is an essential part of any enterprise. It reveals the value, culture, and
techniques of an organisation. John Lewis partnership is having some separate values and
culture. Their management activity reveals their values. It is a top most retail company of UK
which is needed consistency and modification of their work. They need some improvement in
sales and human resource department. The techniques of developing the departmental activities
are discussed in this topic. Each departmental work is connected to other departmental activities.
So, weakness is needed to be modified. If human resource department and sales department
cannot successfully continue, then it is very difficult to get the desired results. Integration and
coordination theses two things are vital for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness. For
adopting strategic interventions, different motivational theories are explained which are
definitely helpful for expansion of the company business.
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................4
L01 Relationship between organisational structure and its culture.................................................5
1.1 Comparing and analyzing between the structures and cultures of different organisations.......5
1.2 The importance and impact of the relationship of structure and culture on the performance of
the business......................................................................................................................................6
1.3 Mentioning the factor in a list which could affect the behaviour of an employee and manager
should be aware of that factor when a new policy has been implemented......................................7
LO2 Different accesses to management and leadership..................................................................7
2.1 Contrasting the efficiency of various leadership styles in different organisational situations. .7
2.2 Functions of management in the Sales Department..................................................................8
2.3 Recommendations for evaluating different accesses to management skills & theories for the
development of sales department...................................................................................................10
LO3 Methods of using motivational theories in an organisation..................................................11
3.1 How the motivational theories influence worker of an organisation.......................................11
3.2 Analyse the different inspirational theories used by the sales department and how it is
influencing the employee...............................................................................................................12
3.3 How sales manager make profit by using other inspirational theory for his department.
Explain with reference...................................................................................................................13
LO4 Evaluating the techniques for the development of productive teamwork in organizations. .14
4.1 Selection of an efficient team within the HRM department....................................................14
4.2 Barriers that restricted the development of a productive team in the HRM department and the
team performance..........................................................................................................................15
4.3 Impact of technology on team functioning inside HRM department......................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
Reference List:...............................................................................................................................17
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Introduction:
Organisational behaviour plays an important role for providing a better future to a company. It
consists of the management team and the employees whose behavior will reflect their
organisation’s perspectives. Behaviour of organization here means the behaviour of individual to
an organization i.e. employee activity, his approach to senior and management department,how
he handle the work pressure. On the other hand, culture of the company and management are
important factors which influence the growth of productivity of an organisation. Here in this
report, John Lewis has been chosen for providing a clear understanding about the topic. This
study has discussed about the relationship between the structure and culture of an entity and its
impact on organisational productivity. Apart from this, various approaches of leadership and
management have been analysed that play a significant role in maintaining a healthy work
culture within an organisation. Finally, different motivational factors have been described, in
order to understand the mechanisms that are essential for the development of effective teamwork
culture in workplace.
Figure: John Lewis Partnership Logo
(Source: Knowledge, J. 2017).
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