Organisational Behaviour Analysis - Tesco

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................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. ....................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Effective team in comparison of ineffective team and different types of teams in an
organisation............................................................................................................................6
TASK 4 ...........................................................................................................................................9
P4 Philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour in business context....................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is defined as a term that helps to know about the employee’s
behaviour that are working within the organisation. This is the study that helps the manager to
interact with the employees so that the organisational goals can be achieved. This assignment
helps to develop the understanding of how the organisational behaviour helps in motivating the
employees by using different culture within the organisation (Ashkanasy and et. al., 2014). The
company taken for the purpose of the study is TESCO which is the retail brand and is one of the
largest retail supermarket chain in the world. The headquarter is in UK. It serves the largest
service area in the world and employees around 476000 employee’s. This report will also help to
analyse how an organisation culture politics and power influence the behaviour of individual.
Also the evaluation of the content and process theories of the motivation and motivational
techniques for achievement of goals in an organisational context would be analysed. Lastly
concepts and philosophies of organisation behaviour within the business situation will be given.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
culture refers to that an organisation has and through which the environment of the
business organisation can be developed. The working condition of the organisation depends on
the workforce and the top managers who are directs them. The company that has been taken into
context is TESCO, and the power, political influence of the manager that influence the working
condition within it would be discussed. For this Handy's Typology that defines the political and
power culture has been taken into consideration which is as follows:
Handy's Typology
Handy has divided his typology into different parts that are mentioned below-
Power culture
This culture is defined as the culture in which the power has been given to the managers.
As the power is in the hand of the people that influence the organisational goals, it also helps in
achieving those goals (Bolino and et. al., 2013). In the case of TESCO it helps them to take good
and fast decision as the power is given to the particular employee of the organisation that is the
manager. They can use this culture so as to overcome the problem that its organisation has. The
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roles of the employee’s and the leaders is defined by those who are having the absolute power to
take the decisions.
Role culture
This is the culture where roles and responsibilities of the employee’s is defined in a
particular manner. The workforce sticks the the particular job and role that are assigned to them.
In case of TESCO this role culture will help them to differentiate the role of employees so that
the task can be done in proper manner and more efficiently.
Task culture
In this culture the task is assigned to the particular group. That group sticks to that task
until the final solution is not derived (Borkowski, 2015). This culture helps TESCO in defining
the task to the particular group so that they are able to perform the task on time.
Person culture
This is the culture that defined the behaviour of the individual within the organisation.
This type of culture encourages individual to find himself to be superior then others. This would
help TESCO to motivate the employees that are working within it so that they are able to achieve
the organisational goals and responsibility.
Power of managers
It is defined as the skills of the managers that influence the thoughts of the employees in
the organisation. In case of TESCO this will enable mangers to influence the motivational level
of the employees that will help hem to achieve the organisational goals.
Legitimate power
This is the power that has been arrived by the position of the manager that it holds in the
organisation (Carpenter, Berry and Houston, 2014). This can influence the employees working
ability as they are the holder of the position that have the influencing power in the organisation.
In TESCO the legitimate power is in others hands will enable them to make the decisions and
will also make them to control the efficiency of the employees
Expert Power
This is defined as the power that has been derived through skills and the knowledge that
individuals in the organisation has. This will help TESCO to analyse the skills and knowledge of
the individuals who have the expert power and will make the work process run in smooth way.
Referent Power
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