Organisational Behaviour

Organisation
Behaviour

Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
P1. 1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and
team behaviour and performance...........................................................................................3
P2. Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context......................................7
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................9
P3. Role of effective team in achievement of objectives.......................................................9
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................12
P4. Apply concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context and a given
business situation..................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
A Organisation Behaviour is study of human or workforce behaviour that suits towards
particular company. The sort mapping of behaviour and attitudes is for individual and team that
propounded from specific task as it provides positive outcomes effective manner (Beatty and et.
al., 2019). The purpose of organisation behaviour to measure and improve certain internal
behaviour of individual employee behaviour on basis of culture for generating favourable
outcomes in better way.
As per this report, the organisation is taken Asda Stores, is trading f British supermarket
retailer that operated from headquarter through Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. The
company was founded in year 1949 and it majorly deals with home made like appliances,
grcerory, food and beverages and other supermarket material products. It generates overall
revenue 21.666 million pounds along with having number of employees 165,000 wo are
currently working in globally. By covering topics in report, about different culture, politics and
power about related towards organisation. Content and Process theory of motivation elaborate
enable to effective accomplish objectives, analysis about effective an ineffective team through
enhance differentiate (Blackstock, Salami and Cummings., 2018). Applying organisational
behaviour philosophies as per situation os business arises.
MAIN BODY
Task 1.
P1. 1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and
team behaviour and performance.
As per the organisational behaviour is concerned towards about individual behaviour who
works contribute for organisation by attaining better positive outcomes. It also create an better
organisational environment that enhance employee job satisfaction where administration
department looking forwards to maintain work discipline in effective manner. The organisational
culture plays an important roles where it design set of norms in which leaders and manager of
Asda Stores can affiliated through provide better understands to the employees individual and
team. The objective is to making them understand as how they can accomplish objective in an
effective manner. It has its direct impact when where all their actions that leads to overcame by

attaining productivity. Therefore, polices are driven through interrelation where firm is having
politics as well as power to better survive in surrounding (Brohi and et. al ., 2018). In below
there is explain about organisational culture, power and politics that shows how its impact
generates on individual and team behaviour.
Organisational Culture
This is emphasis about to playing daily activities in flexible and smooth manner that
reduces the employees turnover which leads towards social and psychological atmosphere of
United kingdom Retailer business. Through havig perferct culture in organisation can helps to
monitor and control better negative internal and external purpose of behaviour and attributes.
Meanwhile, the certain culture of Asda Stores major assist to improving employees interest,
healthy workforce as well as better relationship with each other.
According to Charles handy topology can be determined in below with the perspective of
Asda Stores internal culture of working premises:
 Power Culture: This type of culture is presence at the situation when individual is
eligible to undertaking power and they are sectionised to undertakes all decisions. It
involves several rules and regulation and its appropriate for start ups which is because all
business related decision in Asda Stores is handed over an autonomy power like manager
and executive who mainly control the working operation as well as flexible making
decision.
 Task Culture: As per this type of culture, it is mainly forms through task enhancement
oriented to accomplish better aim and objective with having proper clarity by resolve
critical difficulties and issues (Endrejat, and Kauffeld, 2018). It will creates an impact
that team member in equal manner and approach better task as well as performance as
effective manner. In perspective of Asda Stores workplace to better approach to perform
all activities in appropriate manner in achieving goals further objectives.
 Role Culture: It is type of culture factor that is belongs to performance based criteria
which is followed as in Asda Stores an every person is recognized through better roles
and responsibilities towards attaining better aims and objective. Manager of Asda
assigned proper clarity of roles to each and every employees on the basis of experience,
interest and capabilities for approaching less risks.
Evaluation

It is been concluded in above Culture factor in Asda Stores where they follows Task
Culture which has it impact in individual to better learning and working and also develop a
confidence towards accepting changes easily and utilise effective skills and knowledge in
systematic or appropriate way. Moreover, it having impact on team because effective culture
provide outcomes in terms of proper communication, solving problem easily as well as makes
strategic decisions.
Organisation Politics:
As the organisation politics is refers about the company engagement in political affairs and
states which helps to attaining aims and objectives which enhance better beneficial for the
member. On basis of manger and executives Asda Stores have to form decision in sort of
situation base where they have to concerned towards workplace organisation by accomplish
better targets in workplace culture. The politics of Asda Stores is clearly understood in which
impact on behaviour and performance related to described below:
 Decrease the productivity: Politics may results in confusion that among because they
tend to expand as per whole time on observing their co workers and that distract with task
objective (Engelbrecht and Samuel., 2019). The factor discrimination and biasness is
create barrier on employees goals and objective which they could not bear and work
unaapropiate. As in situation of Asda is facing more politics impact where it provide
negative impression on employees as they less task completion.
 Diversification of employees: Through workers problem at the time of performance
through affect of politics where Asda Stores employees and other infrastructure could not
mange better activities and it create huge barriers . the credits of works is all goes to other
people as they loose their performance capability.
 Negative working environment: By enhancing of groupism and no provide any sense of
appericiation which creates huge gap between workers and their objectives as well as it
creates huge impact on difference in employee and manager relationship.
As per above impact of politics in Asda Stores where they follows certain politics but it
creates impact on individual by not optimise any job satisfaction as well as rduce the work
quality. In other phase of team where it influence because having working disorders in co-
workers view in decision making is getting vast effective.
Organisation Power.

The term power is defines about the capability which is having in individual who can effective
control and influence where they insistently not applies changes. It will create an impact on
behaviour and through proper controlling on optimum resources (Grobler and Rensburg,., 2019).
The Assorting of power is to making assure the compliance or legal norms that create for
organisation which better handling working commitments in organisation.
In below there is using of French and Raven in Asda Stores which is United kingdom
power mechanism from better sources that can diversified in context of Asda company:
 Reward Power: It is directly having impact on Asda company reward basis where a
manager of company is able to effective control the employees which remuneration with
having better rewards system in which employees want. It is considered with wealth and
power.
 Legitimate Power: According to this power in Asda Stores the mutual agreement and
having position is related within authority to better assigned for delegating work by
consuming the rights to influence their employees.
 Referent Power: This is based on interpersonal attractiveness become proceeds for
someone where as an mental as per consequently upon a definite time period. Manager of
Asda uses their power to concentrate high performer who have effective competency to
better accomplish task.
 Expert power: It is power is commence through by agents or having experts who largely
share their optimum information as well as knowledge that is majorly required through
Workforce for better accomplish to objective of Asda Stores.
Through above the use and follow power is Expert power in Asda Stores as because by
getting proper guidance employees would approach their work in proper manner. There is
some working condition tat involves to limited approach work on the basis of terms and
condition. It having impact on individual to making them feel self motivated and job
satisfied that helps in developing through better maintaining effective performance within a
particular specific period of time. This is having impact on team by discuss with each
member by gaining suggestion before implementing decision that helps to getting achieve
gaols for team development.

Task 2.
P2. Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organisational context.
Motivation: It is a process which enhance willingness to implies action for better
accomplish gaols of organisation. Motivation is derives from the word motive and it
contains two types of motivation theories that describes below:
Content of motivation
According to this theory is emphasis about need and wants towards individual and team
which fulfilment which provides a best way for motivates employees. By using theory is made
by a Asda Stores to analysis through better fulfilling these expectation. By using of Maslow
Hierarchy which is made by Asda Stores on the basis of objectives.
Maslow Hierarchy needs theory:
This theory was improvised which tend to explains that individual and team their relate
needs and want to making satisfying to provide positive manner in high level of satisfaction. It
represents that basic needs must be satisfied before reaching towards other needs in hierarchy.
Fulfilment if these needs provide motivation to employees to improve their performance and
also make them more efficient (Habeeb,, 2019). Motivational Hierarchy consists of five stages y
perspective to be considered Asda Stores and they are described as under:-
 Physiological needs: This factor of basic reflect about need of an individual like food,
shelter, water, and clothes etc. The fulfilment of physcological need are essential t
employees for tehri survival. For example : Asda Stores enhance to provide employees
better wok infrastructure which makes them optimal to applies functionally that
facilitates in effective way.
 Safety Needs: It is factor which is mainly emphasis to concerned for human life safety in
workplace as employees are expect from tehri workplace that they will allocate some sort
of job security. For Example; by Asda Stores , their manager provide effective job
security in term of medical allowances, leave policy, Employee insurance, workplace
place insurance etc.
 Social needs: According above two need get fulfilled, social belongingness is all about
human need acceptance like friendship, trust and better receiving affection from peers

and superiors. As in this stats of Asda Stores employees get appreciate from their
superior for providing better outcomes in return.
 Self-Esteem needs: This type of need factor is comprises about indicates the self respect,
accomplish or sense of achievement get enhance build up competency and knowledge
level. For better fulfilment of these needs towards an organisation that improves dignity
of employees (Jena, Pradhan and Panigrahy,, 2018). Through achievement of employee
self respect in Asda Stores which improve better employees performance in better way.
 Self Actualisation: This is majorly involves personal competency with better fulfilment
that seeking proper goals for growth and peak experience. Through better fulfilment of
self actualisation that needs to provides highest level of motivation factor towards
employees. As per Asda Stores this enhance by influencing employees towards tehri
goals and objective to better succeed.
Process theory of Motivation
Vroom Expectancy Theory: According to this theory it divides the effectiveness of
performance and outcomes criteria, it emphasis that results of certain behaviour from conscious
choices which expect alternatives through which objective is to contribute maximum and reduce
minimise negative results.
 Expectancy: This is a idea in which that enhance to increase the value of contributing
of skills and knowledge along with better performance (Kuruppu, Milne and Tilt, 2019).
As in Asda Stores allows to their employees for taking participation in discussion
making which enhance better decision making appears as well as resources to making
their work successfully accomplish.
 Instrumentally: It provide understanding by presuming task with contributing effective
attributes and knowledge it will provide better positive outcomes. As Manager of Asda
Stores influence about to implement better efforts where they can provide optimum
funds.
 Valance: According to this factor it enhance value off employees which generates on
the basis of favourable result through motivate by money and rewards.
Evaluation
It is been summarised in above tow theories where Asda Stores can approach both
process and content theory because these two have their major and different role in motivation fr

better retention and provide high performer employees with productive opportunity that they can
optimise better outcomes towards organisation.
Maslow Hierrachy need provide individual employee major requirement which he/she
expected from the company such as water, food. Money, security, healthy working environment
and recognition. And in other side Vroom expectancy theory is explains about employee reward
and performance basis which is differentiate to mapping profitability in further outcomes.
Furthermore, the process theory of motivation is having greater impact on employees other
behaviour such as individual and group presence of mind that effectively to better evaluate
through Vroom expectancy theory such as it helps to provides positive traits of better positive
working outcomes that helps to also attained high positive outcomes
Task 3.
P3. Role of effective team in achievement of objectives
Definition of Team: The team is basically group of individual and team who are generally
work together wit their own strategic manner by accomplish overall objective. Team is classified
through effective and ineffective team as per basis of performance effectiveness. Through
effective team make assure about timely contribute about accomplishment target where
ineffective team are not appropriate utilise their work pattern in which lack of coordination
increases at several times (McCallaghan, Jackson and Heyns., 2020). The presence of hard and
soft skills which is necessary to making ensure about goal accomplishment in successful manner.
Hard Skills:
It majorly involves learn and presentable skills and knowledge along with better credentials
about working experience.
 Technical knowledge: Effectiveness of team is derives about to accomplish when all
member where overall having knowledge of particular field in which team and
individual wants to pursue. For example: Asda Stores leader confirm that their team
member must having sort of knowledge as well as they must attain better experience.
 Degree and Certifi cate: All member of team is having better work related
experience as Asda Stores leader are focuses on those member who have attain some
sort of rewards or certificate which show s a proof about an individual or group that

they are professionally trained and know about to operate and approach the task
effectively:
Soft Skills:
 Better communication: As per this skills is very important it plays a major role in team
task process. Leader of Asda Stores provide effective training of communication skills
where each member can effectively communicate with peoples and reduces their conflicts
for ensures about better effectiveness.
 Self Discipline: This is derives about each member of team or individual must have
positive behaviour which maintain the decorum of specific team by following guidelines
as per eliminates barriers (Ndoja and Malekar., 2020). Through fulfilling time to time
accomplish to differentiate team by achievement targets that ensure overall team must
get their productive increases.
By comparing effective and ineffective team:
Basic Effective Team Ineffective Team
Decision making As per effective team, all member
of team undertakes decision after
consent with all team members. It
removes all the barriers and
conflicts as per time to helps by
attaining mutual goal and
objectives.
As per these type process of team
in decision making which takes
places without any consent
among all team member which
create confusion and rise of
among all individuals.
Distribution of Power Effective team is one of which
power is divided equally towards
all the teams which develop their
performance.
The system of power distribution
is one of most important which is
distributed by decrease morality
and performance of team
member.
Effective team opposed towards ineffective team in different factor:

 In Communication, effective team is more better than ineffective team in terms of clarity
of message and better coordination between member in systematically, but ineffective
team member are not skilled enough to coordinate or share their work unappropriated.
 In Decision making, there is high fair ability of decision making power in effective team
as they not consume much time and initiates to enhance quick solution which generates
positive outcomes (Solomon and Brown 2020). Therefore, ineffective team does not have
any power of decision making in fact, they takes more time to implement strategy and
decisions.
Tuckman Team Building theory:
As per this theory is design and formed with the purpose of making team effective which
having potential skills and knowledge that helps to accomplish objective in effective manner. it
involves four stages which shows about to make better and positive team building for Asda
Stores Leader perspective.
 Forming: This is the first step which makes understand about how to form or make new
team by enhance to introduce with each other member as they can get known to each
other. This is for Asda leader to better rectify individual member for their interpersonal
skills.
 Storming: It is second step makes an effort that made and organisation by reducing that
enhance better chance to creates an influence to raising conflicts which is control by team
efficiency. As in Asda Stores company effectiveness it made an better contribution by
team to reduce and preparing strategic plan for approach task targets.
 Norming: As per this third stage all member of team shares their work experience as well
as they have cohesive unit that allows to get appraisal through better effectiveness
performance to better maintain team productivity (Volgger and Huang,, 2019). In Asda
Stores leader makes ensure that all member of team must concave their wor on the basis
of cohesive unit factor.
 Performing: As per this fourth stage it emphasis about each member of team must
perform in effective way after getting analyse about specific task. Team need to form a
strategy and design guideline through which they can approach the work to meeting an
goals.

Evaluation:
As per above Tuckman team building model describes about how to form a team
and providing them guidance where they can approach in better form to appropriate in
effective manner. Asda Stores makes sure about that their employees must conceive better
strategic approach and always must perform in team that will generate better outcomes and it
build systematic contribution towards coordination between leader and team member.
Through support of Tuckman model of team development follows by leader of Asda
Stores company, leaders are mainly design better task approach team in basis of capabilities
and logical ability. Team member must having better interpersonal skills that helps to attain
better team or group formation, through having optimum performance which is generate
towards attain high objectives for effective development about individual team. The form of
influence is enhance in individual and group member of team that reflect in their personality,
improve decision making skills and self belief that overall helps to attain high objective
accomplish in effective way.

Task 4.
P4. Apply concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context and a given
business situation.
Through different philosophies which undertakes design in Organisational behaviour that is
assort by influence and motivates its employees to better increase productivity and performance
that majorly follows. As per context of Asda, it making better use of forming Path goal theory
for monitoring and provide a better working organisation though electing a=or approaching most
considerable as well as that suitable towards leadership style to prevailing circumstances.
Similarly, leadership behaviour is elaborates in Asda Stores that provide ideas how leader is
behaviour can helps to employees to achieve their gaol in better an effective way:
Path goal theory:
By undertaking this theory is fomed an organisation for better improve the level of
positive motivation and proper communication flow greater emphasis on leadership style to
major creates positive and negative healthier atmosphere. There are some various part of theory
which enhance Asda Stores to guide proper leadership specification:
 Workforce Characteristics: It this stage which leader of particular orgnsaition are tend
to responsible to better understand as effective to evaluate traits which is employees
approach positive strategies influence the employees proficient efficiency. For Example:
leader of Asda Stores company measure the individual employee’s behaviour and
attitudes to seeking their capability for assigning task as per accordingly.
 Leader behaviour or style: The independent variables of path goal theory which is
individual leader behaviour customised their style on the basis of situation arises. There
are various types of leadership styles which includes through better supportive and
participative, directing and achievement oriented (Weber., Unterrainer and Höge., 2020).
All these traits of leadership follows by individual leaders that follows by Asda Stores
which helps to making them motivates and having better interaction and workforce.
Therefore, by motivates workforce where they perform as well as directive leader better
influence between employees and superior to enhance proper task through guidance by
leader.

There are four types of path goal theory which can follows by Asda Stores:
 Directive Approach: This approach which mainly follow by to employees by
providing optimum direction towards how to attaining goals to accomplish in
successfully. In Asda Stores leader mainly approach to instruct workforce in
effective manner.
 Achievement oriented: This type of leader sets challenging gaols for better
accomplishment that tend to expect them through better perform as per their highest
level by reflecting confidence and ability to acquire all challenges in positive manner.
 Supportive oriented: This type of leader which makes pleasant for the worker as
they shows concern towards being friendly approach. It is most effective in sort of
situation that enhance Asda Stores employees get helps from their leader who
presumes guide as volunteer and provide effective support in each stage.
 Participative Oriented: Through this behaviour of leader is approach to consult the
employees for empowering and convince to taking part in every task of organisation.
As te Asda Stores leaders mainly to build self motivation of employees and superior
to come together in working objective to fulfil in better way as well as it reform long
term relationship.
Evaluation:
Through above analysation of leadership behaviour that tend to presumes approach and
follows Supportive oriented behaviour that enhance by Asda’s Leader towards their employees
to making them help in each stage of working process. This impact of behaviour in individual to
build self motivation which initiate to work and contribution effective skills and attribution. And
another impact of this on empowering their coordination level among with their team members
effective way.
By approaching positive and negative way when scrutinize Supportive oriented behaviour
the positive one would be employees or team member would satisfied and better performance
generates through effective approach of Supportive behaviour of leadership. Meanwhile,
negative aspect that employees would take all responsibility as in granted where they would not
concerned about what their leader or manager is specify about particular task. This can happen in
Asda Stores where strict compliance must implement to rectify all negative assumption for better
recover it.

CONCLUSION
On the basis of above report of Organisational behaviour where it come up as
summarization to better analysation culture, politics and power that reflect how it create impact
on individuals and team as per performance criteria towards an organisation. Effective team are
one of which to better achieving to their work for reaching the target in effective way by forming
perfect team. Using of Content and process theory of motivation as elaborate Maslow Hierarchy
need theory and Goal setting theory which makes their own evaluation towards individual and
team needs. To making use of Tuck man team building theory to stats aout how team forms and
works to attaining their gaols or objectives. At last highlighting about assorting path goal theory
which is one of Organisation Behaviour philosophies that depicts leader behaviour to approach
work as per selected company perspective.

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