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Organisational Behaviour at Waitrose

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1P1 Influence of organisational culture, politics and power..........................................................1M1 Analysis of influence culture, policies and power................................................................4LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4P2 Goal achievement theories of motivation...............................................................................4M2 Behavioural motivational theories.........................................................................................8D1 Relationship analysis of culture, politics, power and motivation .........................................8LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9P3 Effective v/s Ineffective Team................................................................................................9M3 Team and group evolution concepts....................................................................................12LO 4...............................................................................................................................................12P4 Idea and belief of Organisational Behaviour........................................................................12M4 Influence of OB in positive and negative way....................................................................13D2. Critically analyse the relevancy of theories and concepts for developing a team..............14CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTIONOrganisational Behaviour is a learning that helps in knowing human behaviour workingin the organisation. Individual behaviour while performing their role in the organisation isstudied to understand organisational behaviour. This is important for businesses because it helpsto understand why people behaves in a certain manner in an organisation. Complex nature ofhumans working in the business to achieve objectives is studied as per theories of behaviour.These theories help in understanding and develop a better conceptualization of organisationallife. This assignment is prepared to understand the organisational behaviour of Waitrose Limitedwhich is a chain of British supermarkets. This organisation has largest employee-owned retailerin food division (Bakotić, 2016). In the year 1908 it was established as Waitrose Limited byWallace Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor. This Organisation has its headquarters in UnitedKingdom and acquired 5.1% share of the market in UK. In this project impact of culture, policies and power on the behaviours of others in anadministration is mentioned. Process of motivating individuals and team to achieve a goal andcooperation understanding in an organisation is elaborated. Together with this concepts andphilosophies of organisational behaviour to a business situation is reported in this project. LO 1P1 Influence of organisational culture, politics and powerOrganisational activity analysis in a business helps in understanding how an individualreacts and behaves in a particular situation while performing business activities. Organisationalperformance and attaining business objective is influenced through individual and teambehaviour while performing on behalf of the company (Beddoe, 2015). Human resource is one ofthe most important resource in business for performing all the activities on behalf of thecompany. Human resource department of Waitroes Limited will ensure that a healthyatmosphere is created for individuals and team for generating positive behaviour of an employeeto work more efficiently. Culture in an organisation that is followed from top to lower level ofmanagement and influence each person working in the company. Designing of policies andsegregation of power in Waitrose Limited influences individual and team behaviour in thefollowing manner- Influence of organisational Culture1

Organisational culture is subject to change and Waitrose Limited is one of suchorganisation that has adopted significant changes over the past years. It is provided in theoryform that are collected on beliefs and principles of employees working in the organisation.Organisational culture is summarised as a process that helps to segregate mind of a member in agroup from another (Clay-Williams and Braithwaite, 2015). A good and positive culture ofWaitrose will help employees to coordinate and influence towards achievement of organisationalgoals. Charles Handy classified organisational culture in several sections that influenceindividual and team behaviour are as- Power Culture: This culture allows only limited people of the organisation to enjoy theposition with power. Decision making authority lies in few hands and they enjoy preferentialposition over others. Employees needs to follow the orders provided to them and no freedom isprovided for expressing their opinion in business. Implementation of Power culture in Waitrosewill minimise overall productivity of business through limited contribution of each individual.Behaviour of individuals in power culture becomes aggressive when no freedom is provided toexpress their opinion. Task Culture: This particular culture provides organisational value related to a job or aproject. Individuals who are performing a task are given all the powers required to control thework in the project. Talent and idea of an individual will be given preference for solving teamissues and this leads to establishment of flexible team culture (Coccia, 2015). Application of taskculture in Waitrose will give each individual and team to work hard to complete a particularproject. In task culture employees behave positively towards work and organisational goals toattain them in the prescribed time as task is assigned to them is clear and they carry appropriateskills to achieve the same.Person Culture: In this culture individual is considered as role model and provided moreprivilege then other employees. Establishing this form of culture in business will leads anindividual to get more concerned regarding their individual profits rather than organisation as awhole. Individuals are kept at dominating power in this form of culture. Waitrose will bebenefited in short run by introducing person culture nut in long run overall productivity will beadversely affected. Role Culture: In this form of organisational culture role of an employee is based on theirspecialization and qualification. More and more opportunity is provided to employees based on2

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