Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Power, and Motivation

Organisational
Behaviour
Unit 12

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Organisational culture, politics along with power............................................................1
P2. Motivational theories and techniques...............................................................................5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................9
P3 Effective teams and ineffective teams...............................................................................9
P4 Concepts and Philosophies depended on organisational behaviour................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is a mod-set of leadership practices aimed at identifying,
forecasting and shaping human behaviours in the organizational environment. It is a feature of
human activity by controlling knowledge-related activities and anticipating human actions in
order to improve the firm's operational efficiency (Mitonga-Monga, Flotman and Cilliers, 2017).
It is a branch associated with social sciences where concepts are implemented for comprehension
and regulating organizational behaviour in order to achieve better results. Behaviour defines
different way of communication that adopt by individual for presenting operations. For better
understand the concept of organisational behaviour selected Waitrose. It is a chain of British
supermarket and conduct activities into food retail division. It was founded in 1908 by Wallace
Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor (about 111 years ago). The company has royal warrant to
supply wine, groceries and spirits to Queen Elizabeth. The headquarter of the company situated
in Bekshire, United Kingdom. This report includes organisation's culture, power and politics and
team behaviour performance. Along with, define process theories of motivation and motivational
techniques apply to accomplish goals of company. Additionally, create a effective and
ineffective team, apply the concept of philosophies or organisation behaviour as per the company
position.
TASK 1
P1 Organisational culture, politics along with power
Organizational behaviour helps to know, interpret and monitor a person's actions at
workplace. This requires beliefs and attitudes of various people to carry out team actions in order
to accomplish individuals or organizational objectives effectively. Waitrose offers many job
opportunities and all workers and managers are obligated to follow seamlessly the rules,
standards and guidelines for carrying out business operations and tactics. The selected company
present their performance in readjustment and coordination among the division and team
members for accomplishment of defined objectives and improving earnings (Zheng and et.al,
2016).
Organisation Culture: Culture is a mixture of principles, laws, traditions and practices
that are established a given period of time. Organizational culture involves a set of letters,
principles, fundamental values, teamwork, theories, and how communication relates to any firm's
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psychological and sociological climate. Waitrose is connected to meeting desires, presenting
participants with values and interactions with people that help in direction. This culture is linked
to business organization as it is used to describe people's behaviours and to explain
organizational issues. It is linked to a worker's emotional desire, mood, perception, as well as
other variables. To keep a healthy environment, it is crucial that divisions that help Waitrose
follow a successful template. Business managers should work with Charles Handy Culture
Model to provide corporate participants with a better environment.
Handy's cultural dimension: This model outlined that culture dimension where
participants of business adopt rules and regulations and also follow social & psychological
environment (Katou, 2017). The leaders of Waitrose follow this model and defined different
types of this model:
Power Culture: There are consisting of several roles and regulations that utilised by the
business to define everyone role in the company and also define their obligations. Most of the
companies keep power in hand of top authority for determinant operations through behaviour.
There are taking major decision for the improvement of the business. In the selected company,
people like HR director, manufacturing manager transfer their roles and responsibilities to few
superiors in the selected organization in respect to adopt the rules correctly and in compliance
with the defined procedure to achieve the maximum growth opportunities.
Task Culture: It is applied by group and developing teams to present and introduce all
the major issues. Throughout different operations, people with mutual interest come together to
create a group and contribute positively to the accomplishment of assignments. In the context of
Waitrose Ltd staff members is separated into knowledge-based teams as well as backgrounds
that render the organization special. The goal about this culture is to build and promote a
community to include the individual in contributing basic skills and experience to the same
extent as achieving different tasks by sharing creative methods and concepts.
Person Culture: It is utilised to create an individual think they are part of the business
and perform superior tasks as well as business roles (Perreira, Berta and Herbert, 2018).
According to person culture mostly individual concentrate on individual objectives on priority
basis as compare to organisational goals. In the context of Waitrose, staff members are afraid
with accomplishing their own goals that effect on the company's presentation.
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