Organisational Behaviour Assignment : Marks & Spencer
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Organisational Behaviour Assignment : Marks & Spencer
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ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
INTRODUCTION Organizational behavior is referred to the study of attitude and working atmosphere of employees within an organisation. It defines the relation among activities of workforce and the organisation. Behavior and growth of a business firm is interrelated with one another, if behavior of workers will be good then company will attain higher growth(Beal III, Stavros and Cole, 2013). This assignment is going to be based on Marks & Spencer which is Britain multinational retailer dealing in food, home products and clothes. Company is headquartered in Westminster London and operates at a global level. This report will cover impact of politics, culture and power on the individual and team behaviour of employees within an organisation. Beside this, different motivational theories will be discussed to motive workforce. Differences among effective and ineffective team is and at last concepts, philosophies and theories associated with organizational behaviour are discussed. LO1 P1 Influence of organisation culture, power, and politics on individual and team performance Organisational culture: It is referred to collective aspects of assumptions which are shared within an organisation. It includes beliefs, value through which workforce in a company interact with one another. In case of M&S, organizational culture defines if workforce of company is satisfied with the company or not. For defining organizational culture, Handy’s typology is discussed below: Handy's dimension of cultureIt is one of best model associated with culture of a business firm. It consists of four factors which defines the culture of organisation in a proper manner. In case of M&S, this culture and its types are mentioned below: Power culture:In this types of organizational culture, authority and power is delegated in the hands of few individual. People which holds power makes regulations and rules of the company and people under them needs to follow their orders in a proper way. This culture will benefit M&S in taking quick decisions due to which performance of company can enhance for short time span. As this culture is authoritative, this culture can impact individual and team behaviour in a negative manner as opinions of workforce will not be given preference.
Role culture:In this kind of culture, work and position is given to employees according to their role within an organisation. People having higher position within M&S will be given important role. This culture will benefit M&S is accomplishing their work will full effectiveness and workforce will be given work as per their capabilities. Due to this, team and individual performance of employees will increase and company will attain high profitability(Kitchin, 2017). Task culture:It is a kind of culture in which employees prefers to work as a team rather than individually. Power in this culture circulates within team due to which team performance of M&S will be high. This will result in high performance of company in terms of shares and revenues. As this culture depends upon working as a group to accomplish team, performance and behaviour of staff as individuals will be less good due to which team work will also became less effective that can impact productivity of overall firm in a negative manner. Person culture:In this organizational culture, working staff of a company considers itself more superior than the overall company due to which objectives of firm and employees alienates. Companies having this culture have low performance of company and team behaviour of performance of company is also low. If M&S will follow this culture, individual performance of workforce will be high but company will not be able to accomplish its goals and targets in an efficient manner. In context with M&S, it can be recommended that company can adopt role culture in which work will be allotted to employees as per their interest and capabilities due to which all tasks and project will be handled in an effective manner and every employ will be able to deliver their best performance. Hofstede cultural dimension Power distance index:The individual employee willperform hard to remove the unequal distribution of power and to obtain low PDI score. In Team, the member who got more power and authority will be able to perform better instead the one who doesn't got much authority. In context with company, If the hierarchy is clearly define it will reduce all doubts which will result better performance of company. Individualism versus collectivism:In individualism, the individual will focus on their own performance which will result in positive manner whereas in collectivism,the performance
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