Key Characteristics and Organisational Philosophies of Tesco, WM Morrison, and Sainsbury

This assignment discusses the key characteristics and organisational philosophies of Tesco, WM Morrison, and Sainsbury, three top-rated global retailing firms.

Organisational Development 302 Man
WM Morrison supermarket plc.
Key characteristics-
 The company is among the 4 important leading chain of supermarkets with having 500+ stores and revenue of
year 2016 was about £16.1 billion.
 10% of the total share of company is with Morrison Family while rest of them are with other stakeholders
including large institutions and retail shareholders.
 They are only trading on their retail segment sector under which they are operating online, physically, petrol
retailing and then manufacturing of products.
Business model of WM Morrison-
The company is offering products like that of Free from, food to go,
nutmeg clothing and world food serving its customer all across the UK with
500+ stores, online market and also home delivery. Morrison would be
underpinning the manufacturing and sourcing of the food and then selling it
across the store to customers. They are operating throughout UK in this way
they are very much close to their customers and to them who are matter to a lot.
All the products which are been produced or manufactured are of the best
quality and fresh that are prepared by expert teams.
Organisational Philosophies of WM Morrison-
They are been operating on the strategies of developing popular and
useful service like that of key cutting or pick up points as well. They are also
serving customer with better things with listening to them and changing
business with improving their offers and working harder in making right person
available at right place.
Sainsbury
Key characteristics-
 Sainsbury is the most trusted brand in whole of UK as is always having strong touch of economic, social and
environmental responsibility.
 Their aim is to drive positive changes in UK and on international level in which they are serving about 1 billion poor
people who are suffering from malnutrition.
Business model of Sainsbury-
They consist of 530+ supermarket convenient store chain with having the target on price sensitive customers and
leading the cost leadership. They are the oldest working supermarket chain in UK with over 10000 delivery of orders per week
which is about 90% of households are getting this delivery. Sainsbury Bank is also operating with a joint venture with HBOS
which is a part of Lloyd's Banking group which is providing wide range of banking and investment products portfolio.
Organisational Philosophies of Sainsbury-
They are working on to strategy like that of reducing wrong activities of business which are not making any kind of
profits to firm and cost which is associated with it is also high. They are expanding their business in order to keep their
competition high which is important for the to get investment so that new products and customers could be dealt on.
INTRODUCTION
The Global retailing industry could be major one
where organisational development could be done as this sector
is one which is facing high number of transformation on part of
various technological changes. So in this current assignment in
would be containing three top most rated global retailing firms
which are TESCO, WM Morrison and Sainsbury all of them are
operating throughout the world including UK as well. The key
characteristics of all these organisations would be included and
how would they putting their philosophies into practice.
Assessment of key characteristics and in which way do they put models and organisational
philosophies into practice.
TESCO Plc-
Key characteristics-
 At the end of year 2015-16 Tesco was having about 4, 60,000 employees who are been
associated with the company.
 During the same year operating profits of the firm was about £1017 million while the
debt of firm was around £3.7 billion.
 They are having 6809+ stores all around the world which is having high number of
profits of the firm.
Business model of Tesco-
Tesco is regarded to as one of the largest supermarket or grocery store which is operated all around the world and leading
in the European market. All the business possibilities and problems are handled in very professional and unique way
together with selling of products.
Organisational Philosophies of Tesco-
The business mission of Tesco is very much simple as they are “Serving Britain's shoppers as little better
every day”. In this deal they are meant to serve almost 66 shoppers every second so that customer would be experiencing
good service as compared to other rivals in market. Their team is also meant to work together with each other so that
targets are achieved and in this regard their recruitment policy would be hiring better, simpler and cheaper people into
organisation. The philosophies of company would also be including that to reduce wastage of food on global level and
thus ensuring to distribute that surplus food to those who are in need products.