Organisational Behaviour Assignment : TESCO PLC
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Organisational Behaviour Assignment : TESCO PLC
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1 Analysing how an organisation's culture, politics and power influences individual and teambehaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1P2 The process theories of motivation and techniques of motivation to achieve theorganisational goals.....................................................................................................................4TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7P3 What makes and effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................................7TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9P4 Concept and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context.....9CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour is defined as the study and application of knowledge that howany of the individual is required to act within the premisses of an organisation. It is necessarybecause it helps to understand about the complex nature of an individual by trying to find themain causes and effect of their behaviour (Afsar and Badir, 2016). In this project, the chosenorganisation is TESCO PLC. It is a British multinational groceries and general merchandiseretailer. The header of the company is located in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.In context of the file,their will be the discussion on various organisational cultures andmotivational theories. Also, there will be the evaluation on theories which have been discussed.In second part, teamwork theories and their effectiveness will be discussed. TASK 1P1 Analysing how an organisation's culture, politics and power influences individual and teambehaviour and performance.Organisation behaviour is one of the most topic which do play important role within theorganisation. In context of TESCO Plc, they can take the help of Handy's culture typology andHofestede's cultural dimension to know the behaviour of an individual and teamHandy's culture DimensionsPower culture: It is the culture of organisation in which only limited number of persondo get the rights and responsibilities to take any of the decision. Here, employee's ofTESCO Plc is required to follow the instruction supreme authority through whichperformance of individual and teams can be enhanced.Role culture: In this culture, the manager of a company have to play crucial role forimproving the performance of organisation. In context of TESCO Plc, their manager isrequired to distribute the role and responsibility as per the ability of existing employee's.This will also help to improve the performance of individual and team which have beendivided with in the company.Task culture: The main focus of task culture is to accomplish the goals and targets onspecific period of time (Hart, Gilstrap and Bolino, 2016). TESCO can be benefited withthis culture as they will be able to obtain the result on particular time period. In this,1
manager can have a overview of work which had been performed by the employee's andteam.Person culture: Under person culture, complete responsibility is given to the employee'swho are working within the premisses of an organisation. TESCO, will allow theiremployee's to work freely in this and they will have the major responsibility toaccomplish the goals and objective of an organisation (Kalshoven, van Dijk and Boon,2016).When it comes for deciding the suitable culture for TESCO, it is better to use Roleculture as right candidate will be placed at best position through which chances of error will alsoreduce significantly.Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions TheoryIt is the framework that is used for the purpose of understanding the differences in culturewhich is being used within different countries that how business is operated with the help ofdifferent culture. There are six different categories of culture in Hofstede’s Cultural DimensionsTheory and they are: Power Distance Index: It can be defined as a kind of index in which less powerfulemployees of the organisation accept that the distribution of the power is unequal. Individualism vs collectivism: It is being consider as the division of the society into twogroups which are individual and group. The people who lives individually, they believeon the feeling of “I”. On the other hand, people who prefer to live in group they believeon “We” feeling. Same as in the organisations those employees who believes in the “We”culture, they work in the group.Uncertainty avoidance index- This index defines about the way of dealing with theuncertain events and situations. In the high uncertainty avoidance index, the uncertaintyis minimised with the strict rules. On the other hand, in the lower uncertainty avoidanceindex, the uncertain events are accepted widely.Masculinity vs femininity- The masculinity and femininity, both are different from eachother. The masculinity is concerned with the characteristics like distinct gender role,assertive etc (Lavy and Littman-Ovadia, 2017). While the femininity is related with themodest, nurturing and fluid gender roles.2
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