Organisational Behaviour and Teamwork in TESCO

UNIT 12 ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Organisational behaviour.............................................................................................................3
The factors influencing the performances or organisational behaviour of TESCO....................3
Impact of power, culture and politics on the behaviour and performances of individual or team
in..................................................................................................................................................5
an organisation.............................................................................................................................5
Motivation to individual and team for achieving group goals.....................................................5
Recommendations for improving the teamwork.........................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour described as how people interact within groups with different
cultures or behaviours. An organisational success totally depends upon its workforce and if the
cultural environment of a company is good and there is less conflict the work will be done more
efficiently (Wagstaff, 2018). TESCO is United Kingdom international company dealing in its
operations worldwide and due its global market there are various cultural diversity in its
organisations. This report will include the influence of culture, politics and power on the
behaviour of others in an organisational context with recommendations of improvements .This
report also include how to motivate individuals and team to achieve a goal with various models
and theories. Furthermore, understanding of an effective team as opposed to ineffective team
with theories and analysing different types of organisational teams and how they influence
behaviours in the organisation. Applying various concepts and philosophies of organisational
behaviour to a given situation with power point presentation.
MAIN BODY
ASSIGNMENT 1
Organisational behaviour
TESCO is an international company producing its products and services worldwide with
many branches with employees working in each organisations (Al-Madadha, 2021). The
employees behaviours or performances described how effective is the company goals are and
how employees are motivated. This company is facing problems in motivating the employees
due cultural diversity and group dynamics.
The factors influencing the performances or organisational behaviour of TESCO
Organisational Culture
This is the main important factor that influence the performances of many organisations
due to diversity of cultural employees working together. The TESCO has every type of cultural
employees working together in a team so due to difference of opinion, age, religion it creates
problems in working groups and creates conflict and inefficiency in the work. In an

organisational culture people shares a common goals and work in unified social environment.
The company TESCO is using the model for identifying the problem areas
Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory
 Power distance index: In this Tesco uses the index methods in which high power index
indicates that employees are satisfied and have no doubts about the distribution of power
whereas low power index shows employees are unhappy and dissatisfied with their power
and creates problems in efficient working (Lam, L.W. and Xu, A.J., 2019).
 Individualism vs. Collectivism: Individualism describes the type of people who always
remain with the statement which like “I” and does not support others in this where as
collectivism believe in “We” in which peoples are work in groups and work together in
case of conflicts.
 Uncertainty Avoidance Index: The groups of employees who follows strict rules and
procedures and work with each others has a high degree index from those who avoid the
rules or guidelines and work freely in an environment (Gerlach, P. and Eriksson, K.,
2021).
 Masculinity vs. Femininity: The company Tesco is giving both the male and female equal
opportunities to achieve their dreams both genders are equal in the eye of this company.
 Long term orientation vs. Short term Orientation: The company TESCO is emphasising
more on future and long term goals for meeting any uncertainty and meeting all the long
term goals whereas short term goals are concerned only with immediate needs and
current needs of an employee.
Power
Power is the capacity of an individual or team who has the authority to influence an
individual performances (Maaravi, and et.al., 2021). In company TESCO its top team has more
power to control or influence the behaviour of an individual or group of employees to work
towards the common goals. The power is not being utilized effectively in an organisation due no
proper use of power by this company and employees are feeling biased.
Politics
Politics in an organisation is the self serving method by an individual with using of its
power an authority to influence other employees for effective working in an organisation. The