Organisational Culture: Definition and Hofstede Theory for Tesco

Organisational culture

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body ......................................................................................................................................3
Definition ....................................................................................................................................3
Hofstede theory of organisational culture for Tesco ...................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The following report describes organisational culture that it's a group of values, ideologies,
beliefs, expectations, and practices of any organisation which makes it separate from other
organisations. This report reveals about Tesco, which is a UK based multinational grocery &
food retailer founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen, and it explores the Hofstede theory of Tesco.
Main Body
Definition
Organisational culture refers an organisation's experience, expectations, assumptions, values,
vision, norms, philosophy which ensures that how people are behaving in the organisation. It
also indicates working culture and the future expectancy of the company (Bettiol, 2020).
Hofstede theory of organisational culture for Tesco
Hofstede is founded by Greet Hofstede. According to Hofstede there are many factors available
in the organisation like power distance, individualism, masculinity and feminity, uncertainty
avoidance and long term orientation affects the working culture of any company (Jones, 2020).
Hofstede explains that globalisation has become a new boom in the market and the world is
getting smaller. As per Hofstede there five factors who affects the organisational culture of any
company.
Power distance
As the name suggest, according to this factor power is being distributed among employees as per
their designations. Worker and employees enjoy the available benefits of their position. But the
higher management and leaders have more responsibilities as compared to other team members.
But Tesco believes that managers and team leaders are responsible for their team and they should
bring out the best from them. In Tesco the team members also have some responsibilities like
they have to pay respect and attention towards the team leader and manager and perform the
work as per their guidance and orders. This factor benefits Tesco because company gets the best
employee who can fulfil the mission and vision of Tesco (Tran, 2020).
Masculinity against feminity
This factor defines the dissimilarity in the opinion and values of male and female within the
company. In most company’s male employees dominate the female employees as they are more
barbaric than female employees. But in Tesco male employees have to follow the various
policies where female stay in the procedure of decision making along with the female employees