Organisation Behaviour: Analysis of Culture, Power, Politics and Motivation Theories in Sainsbury

Organisation behaviour
Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance....................................................................................................1
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context......................................5
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................7
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organizational
context and given business situation......................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The organisation behaviour is defined as the study of human behaviour with the business
organisation as a individual or a group. It is very essential for the management and the other
authorities to identify the human behaviour in order to function is an effective way. This includes
various activities such as improve job performance, increasing job satisfaction, encoring
leadership etc. the behaviour of the employees depends on the various activities and how the
management is able to control over the behaviour of employees. The managers need to focus on
the development of the employees so that they can work in an effective and efficient manner.
This is the report which is based on Sainsbury which is considered as the second largest
supermarket chain in United Kingdom. The business organisation was established in 1869 by the
John James Sainsbury. (Dahlgaard-Park, S.M., Reyes, L. and Chen, C.K., 2018). This report will
include various topic such as how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence
individual and team behaviour and performance, content and process theories of motivation what
makes an effective team opposite to an ineffective team and at last concepts and philosophies of
organisational behaviour.
MAIN BODY
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Culture -
This is defied as the values, beliefs, expectations and various practices which help in order to
guide and informs the actions of all the team members within the business organisation. This is
concerned with the business structure which is followed by the business organisation in order to
achieve the goals and objectives. The organisational culture is based on Handy's model where it
focus on a specific task or project. This model has four culture that are given below:
 Power culture- This is the type of culture where there is high degree of formalization but
low degree of centralization. It has been identified that in such type of the power is in the
hands of the few people who acts as can leader and communicates the other members.
This culture helps in making a quick and responsive decisions within the business
organisation.
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