Relevance of Organizational Behaviour in Today's Environment: Motivation and Factors

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................2
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Q. 1 Relevance of organisational behaviour in today’s environment while describing
motivation and motivation factors in organisations....................................................................3
Q 2. Why having a motivated workforce will give the organisation a much-needed
competitive advantage and practices that positively effect the workforce motivation...............5
Practices that positively effect the workforce motivation:..........................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTION
Organizational Behaviour refers to an investigation of behaviour of human beings in an
organization. The attitude of human workforce in company is studied under the heading of
organizational behaviour. Human behaviour effects the operations of company. Positive and
motivated attitude of employees helps firm to achieve its objectives and goals on time whereas
any negative or unhealthy behaviour will bring conflicts and takes company to get inefficiencies
in work. Motivation plays a very important role in the behaviour of employees in an
organization. Motivation refers to the encouragement and enhancement of employees
efficiencies and potential in the organization in order to bring quality and timely completion of
task (Birdie, and Jain,2017). There are certain factors which influences employees such as
appreciation, appraisals, rewards and recognitions, etc. which act as a drivers of motivation.
Some practices adopted by companies to give a positive effect on organization's workforce
motivates employees and develops feeling of trust and loyalty for the company. In the present
report organizational behaviour and motivational factors are being studied for TESCO PLC
which is a multinational retail company having its headquarter in UK.
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TASK
Q. 1 Relevance of organisational behaviour in today’s environment while describing
motivation and motivation factors in organisations.
Organisational behaviour shapes the management and running of an organisation. It also
examines the influence of workers for each other in a company and also how an organisation
motivates and inspires its employees (Brinsfield, and Edwards, 2020).
Motivation is a concept which concerns on providing encouragement and inspiration to
the employees of an organisation who actually performs task and activities to achieve company's
goals and objectives. Motivational factors are those which helps a leader to motivate his team
and increase their productivity in an organisation. Factors such as Rewards and recognitions,
development, healthy work environment, etc. acts as a drives or factors of motivation (Elswah,
and Howard, 2020). These factors are described below in detail:
 Rewards and Recognitions: Rewards refers to any tangible present given to an
employee who deserves in respect of work done by him for the company.
Recognitions means any praises or appreciation provided to employee in the
organisation. Reward can be any gift which can either be any monetary or non
monetary whereas recognitions is always non monetary in nature (Feldmann, and
Teuteberg, 2020).
 Development: This factor comprises of training and development opportunities
provided to the organisational employees. Motivating employees is a very
important and necessary task for company as employees development has a direct
relation with organisation's development. Growth of employees contributes in the
upliftment of work efficiencies at place. Training and development provided by
companies increases the employees retention ratio, loyalty towards organisation,
etc. (Khalili, 2017).
 Leadership: A leader always plays its role in motivating the employees or his
team members. Credit and appreciation given by a leader always motivates
workforce in increasing their efficiencies in their performance (Hadi, and et.all.,
2020).
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