Influence of Sainsbury's culture politics and power on performance

Organization and Behaviour

Table of Contents
Organization and Behaviour............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Influence of Sainsbury's culture politics and power on performance of its individuals and
teams...........................................................................................................................................3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Motivation and its Techniques...............................................................................................5
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................7
P3 Distinction between Effective team and ineffective team.....................................................7
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concept and philosophies of organizational behaviour.........................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour that consist of behaviour of all the members of an organization
and their behaviour collectively. In a systematic form organization behaviour is an study of
behaviour of a organization's members. This report includes discussion of organization
behaviour in different context like influence of culture, politics and power on individual and
team performance. Performance being a result of one's behaviour is a part of organization
behaviour. Further, this report also includes motivation and motivational practices of
organization including various theories that help to understand motivation and its process. Report
also includes behaviour and characteristics of effective team that differentiate it from ineffective
team. There are various basis on which both of these can be differentiated. This report by the end
also includes various philosophies and concepts of the organizational behaviour. This report
includes this discussion in context of Sainsbury's organizational behaviour and all these activities
that have been mentioned earlier.
LO 1
P1 Influence of Sainsbury's culture politics and power on performance of its individuals and
teams
Factors like culture, politics and power play an important role in performance of
organisation's people. Organization culture that consist of underlying values, beliefs and norms
of an organisation and the way people in organisation interact with each other that differentiate
one organisation from another. In context of Sainsbury's its culture has been defined here in three
types that is role culture of organisation that is based on the role that is played by individual in an
organisation and power individual gets in organisation is also based on their role within the
organisation and this culture defines superior subordinate relationship and this is one of the most
common form of organisation culture and Sainsbury's also have adopted this culture where they
have different type of employees and their power is base on the work they do (Alvesson and
Sveningsson, 2015). Employees in Sainsbury's mainly plays role of manager, team leaders and
customer service assistance. Customer service assistants are highest employed by Sainsbury's as
it is a retail organization. These are recruited from various ethnic background so that they deal
with all type of customers in a more effective way. There are more three type cultures that can
exist in a organization. These are power culture, this refers to centralization of power where
either owner or higher authorities take all decisions and all other concerned people execute

decisions taken by them (Bortolotti, Boscari and Danese, 2015). Task culture, it refers to power
of individual that is based on the task they do in a team this culture is mostly found in a team
based organisation. People culture, this refers to power that is held by individual on the basis of
their special skills and knowledge. Like lawyer or any other person having some type of
professional skills and this people have all power with themselves.
Influence of culture on performance of team and individual depend on the nature of organisation
and efficiency of execution of cultural model. Task culture id best suited in a team based
organisation but there should be no interference of authorities that is more than required and
make team members uncomfortable and decrease their performance.
Organisation politics means use of individual's power in organisational context to make
decisions on the basis of others and also influencing other's behaviour (Landells and Albrecht,
2017). This is mostly taken in negative form that influencing other's behaviour for own motives
and for completion of individual objectives rather than organisational objectives. Politics is often
considered negative and thus negatively affect performance of individuals and team. Because
politics in organisation affect concentration of employees and demotivate employees. Though
many times higher authorities use this as a tool so that they can make employees behave in a
certain way and that lead them to achieve organisational objectives. In context of Sainsbury's
there is no politics in organisation and all the task are performed in a pre decided manner.
Power in its simplest form refers to ability from which individual can affect other's behaviour as
per their perspective (Elbanna, 2016). Power also allow individual's to make power in various
kind of situations.
Organisational Power, in context of organisation there are 5 sources that can avail power to an
individual these sources are positional power, legitimate power, expert power, referent power,
coercive power and reward power. Power that one can exercise in a organisational context
depends on various basis like role and expertise. Organisational power in Sainsbury's is
completely dependent on the role being played by individual in a organisation. Thus influence
their performance on the basis of role and factors like role clarity or ambiguity and competency
of playing a role or o being at one position in organisation.
All these factor have a significant influence on the performance of individuals and organisation.
When culture of organisation is according to nature of the organisation it makes it feasible for
employees to work (Ocasio, 2017). Along with feasible employees also need to have positive