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Organisation Behaviour Assignment : Waitrose company

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ORGANISATIONBEHAVIOUR
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2LO 1.................................................................................................................................................2P1 Organization's culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour andperformance -..............................................................................................................................2LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4P2 Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effectiveachievement of goals in organizational context .........................................................................4LO 3.................................................................................................................................................7P 3 Understanding of what makes an effective team, as opposed to an ineffective team ..........7LO 4...............................................................................................................................................11P 4 Concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context and a given businesssituation.....................................................................................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................151
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INTRODUCTIONOrganization Behaviour is the observation of individual and group behaviour in responseto other individual or bunch of them. The aim is to observe the behaviour of individual or groupto evaluate their attitudes towards certain conditions. present study is based on Waitrosecompany. It is a British super market that operates a retail business and is the largest employeeowned business having 353 outlets and 65 little Waitrose convenience shops. They became thefastest growing shops in UK offering their products. Report will include the effect oforganization culture, politics and power on individual and team behaviour and performance,achievement of goals in an organization based on concept and process theories of motivation andmotivation techniques, brief of effective team compared to that of ineffective team andOrganizational Behaviour concept and philosophies for an organization.LO 1P1 Organization's culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour andperformance -Organisational culture is the unique social and psychological environment of a companyalong its values and behaviour (Osland, Devine, and Turner, 2015).The different kind of organization culture namely power, role, task and person culture inHandy's is defines as - Power Culture -In this type of culture power is held by few individuals who influence other people in anorganization. There are few rules and regulations in a power culture controlling workingconditions and employees are also generally evaluated by what they achieve in an organizationrather than their performances of task and role. By the power, employee control is concentratedfocusing on few people eliminating the chances of confusion and disputes amongst the workers.This type of culture impact on individual behaviour as people have to work under huge controlthat makes them demotivated towards firm and they become negative towards business. Hence,2
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negative employee don’t perform well in team which affect performance of business badly.Enforcement of power culture results in influencing of people will focus on achievements at thetime of work not by evaluating their performances based on roles and responsibilities resulting infocusing only a few employees in firm (Borkowski, 2016).Role Culture - Organizations with role culture are based on rules. Individuals are aware of their rolesand responsibilities in the company. The power flow in firm is based on hierarchical bureaucracyand is determined by a person's role in the company. The power is commanded by the topmanagement in firm. This type of culture impact on individual behaviour because employees donot get rights to say their views in front of management. This makes them negative and this alsobadly affect team performance because such negative employee so not support other teammembers which influence organisational performance to great extent. Implementation of roleculture will result in affecting the roles and responsibilities of its employees considering theirperformances of job responsibilities and evaluating the amount of improvement required. Thetop management decision, rules and guidances are to be followed by the employees in case ofculture dilemma (Miner, 2015).Task Culture Waitrose has this kind of culture where it focuses on team working of employees formatters related to problem solving. The power is derived from expertise when necessary as basedon matrix organization, the employees are thus focused on resolving their issues (Handy's Modelof Organisational Culture,2018). The task culture of the organization emphasis on solving all theproblems by the team or group of Waitrose staff (Osland, Devine and Turner, 2015). This culturepromotes and accepts suggestions and directions given by the expertise as per the requirement ofthe team. Company gives task to each workers as per their abilities and all individuals perform itwell. They have rights to make own decisions that makes them positive towards the brand andthese staff members perform in team very well. This kind of culture impacts positively on3
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