Organisation Behaviour

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Organisational aspects upon team conduct and individual..............................................1
M1 Culture, politics and power impact upon organisation team behaviour and individuals 3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P2. Different motivation theories...........................................................................................4
M2 Way in which behaviour is affected by theories of motivation......................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6
P3. Ineffective v/s effective team...........................................................................................6
M3. Group and team development theories.........................................................................10
P4. Concepts and Philosophies of Organisational Behaviour..............................................11
M4. Philosophies and concepts of OB.................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour termed as study of individual behaviour those who are conducting
their roles and responsibilities in entity as to encourage their behavioural characteristics towards
effective accomplishment of entity goals. This benefit HR team of entity to undertake developing
measures to offer positive workplace environment to team and individual through which overall
productivity and profitability of company can be maximized. Present report is based on John
Lewis partnership, company operate their functioning as a British department store in retail
industrial sector and is largest of the employee on type businesses. With quality product and
services this entity is becoming one of the fastest growing shops in the provinces of United
Kingdom. Present report include, impact of key essential element of organisation upon
performance of team and person. Along with this report include motivational theories along with
their application. Report also include belbin team role theory.
LO 1
P1. Organisational aspects upon team conduct and individual
Organisational behaviour understanding allow organisation to facilitate employees
performance and behaviour in an effective manner. In this HR team of respective organisation
play a significant element to offer healthy as well as positive form of workplace environment in
which team and individual conducted operation in a motivated manner. There are different type
of factors like culture, power and politics that are having significant impact upon team and
individual daily basis performance, proper understanding of these aspects lead organisation to
foster healthy relationship.
Culture
Role culture: It is form of culture; undertake same as functional way of structure
whereby the manager holds the responsibilities to assign job duties to personnel belonging to the
organisation as per their skills, interests and expertise. This culture when applied within the
confines of JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP would result in inflating the productivity level of
employees as they get the roles and responsibilities as per their choice and experience This instils
a sense of encouragement within individuals and groups and thus, they tend to have a positive
approach towards work at all times. This makes them work in an effective and efficient manner
for the accomplishment of predetermined goals and objectives.
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Task culture: This is a form of culture wherein numerous groups are created within the
corporation with a view to resolve the conflicts persisting among the workforce (Jansen and
Samuel, 2014). In relation to JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP , the application of task culture
would result in gaining the support and facilitation from employees as they see that the
organisation is undertaking steps for creation of positive working atmosphere. Thus, this results
in inflating their current motivational level and allows them to apply their potential for the
achievement of goals.
Person culture: Within this culture, it is seen that employees consider themselves to be
superior than the corporation. This is why hereby individuals and teams start giving more
importance to their self and team development rather than overall organisational growth. The
application of this culture within the boundaries of JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP would
definitely enhance the output given by personnel individually but, would affect the overall
organisational outcomes adversely Thus, the implementation of person culture results in
decrement of overall productivity for corporation which would be adverse for a multinational
company like JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP .
Power culture: This is a type of culture which limits the authority to take decisions in the
confines of only few persons belonging to top and middle management (Burrell and Morgan
2017). Although, this consequently paces the decision making procedure, it leads to decrement of
motivation and creativity within employees and teams as their views and opinions are not taken
into in this culture
In accordance with above mentioned analysis this is identified that by taking use of role
culture John Lewis partnership can encourage performance of team and individuals in effective
manner and can further increase entity profitability.
Politics
Politics is mainly defined as dissemination and process that undertake place within
organisational workplace structure (Testa and Lee, 2018). Politics is having capability to have
significant impact upon performance and productivity of both employees and entity. In terms
with John Lewis partnership, by adapting positive politics entity allow telecommuting, rotational
shifts, and flexible working practices, taking regular feedbacks from employees, paid and sick
leaves etc. It lead entity to build positive form of relationship with employees. While negative
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