Organisation and Behaviour

Organisation And
Behaviour

Introduction:
Organisation action is a examination of how people behave within a groups or in the
team. Under the organisational behaviour, different types of areas are covered such as rising job
performances, accelerative job satisfactions, advance new innovation ideas & encourages leading
in the organisation. Their are various different theories which needs to be followed in the
organisations which helps in managing the different types of the people in the team.. In this
report, selected organisation is John Lewis partnership, is a British company, which deals in
clothes, watches, house-ware items, audio and visual computing and financial services to
clients. The manager will focus on improving performance of its employees so organization
score and objectives can be achieved in effective ways. Further various theories and concepts
will be discuss in the context of John lewis in this report. The theories can be process expectancy
and Maslows theories which will provide proper guidance to perform activities in better ways
for the organisation. further their will be discusses on the effective and ineffective team and
comparison between the.
(Arvey, and Wang, 2016).
The organisational behaviour is a process of managing the people in the organisation so
that common wants and desire can be achieve in the target market. Employees are made to
understand the mission and vision of the organisation so that desire outcomes can be achieved in
the long run and take competitive advantages in the marketplace. At the workplace, organisation
culture, politics and power is interlinked in organisation and influence behaviour of its
employees. In the context of John Lewis, manager and leader make clear policies for its
employees to perform better in organisation(Bolino and Klotz, 2015).
Organisation culture: It is a scheme where feeling, beliefs and the assumptions are
shared with the people of the organisation which helps them to behave in particular manner.
Each and every organisation has a different culture which represent behaviour of employees.
culture of the system provide the path ways how employees behave in the working environment
and how their will react to changes in the workplace. Handy's model of organisation culture
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which shows that how behaviour of worker effective the organisation in achieving the pre-
determines standard of the organisation.
Power culture: In the organisation, their are few special individual who have privileges
at workplace as they have power and authorises to make important decision in organisation.
These individual further delegate roles and responsibilities to sub-ordinates to perform a given
tasks in the proper manner. Here employees have a less chance to express their point of view and
have to follow what their supervisors tells them to do. In the John lewis, the manger likes to
coordinates with the all the employees equal and less power in the single hand( Borkowski,
2016).
Task culture: it is followed by the organisation where team are defined to solve critical
trouble in the systematic manner. Under this culture, team is formed who have common goals
and objectives about the projects and contribute equally in task. Here teams are formed who have
specified knowledge and ability to complete the given task and the manager of John lewis use
this culture and have a affirmative impact on the action of overall organisation.
Person culture: Under this culture, individual are more concerned about themselves
rather then company, they think that they are more essential then their organisation. The
organisation who follows this society take back seat in achieving goals and objectives of the
company and suffer in long run. Here employees have self -interest rather than focus on the
organisation goals
Role culture: Under this, employees are provided with roles and duty according to their
specification and eduction qualification so that the best is extract from them. Employees are
more focus on the work as they know their part of given assigned to them. . Employees are
given power as per their responsibilities in the organisation( Gelfand, Aycan, Z. and Leung,
2017).
As per above discussion, John Lewis company can use task culture in their organisation
as it best suits its organisation structure. The reason been is that it aid in increasing level of
group action and coordination among employees. This culture provide positive environment for
employees and encourages them to perform better in the organisation.
Organisation power: It includes the to influence the performance of employees and
changes their behaviour in favour of organisation. This power provide a direction to its
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