Organizational Behavior: Analyzing Culture, Politics, Motivation, and Teamwork in ASDA

Organizational behavior
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Table of Contents
Introduction:..................................................................................................................... 3
L01 Analyze the influence of culture, politics and power on the behavior of others in an
organizational context......................................................................................................3
Using your organization analyze how an organization’s culture, politics and power can
influence individual and team behavior and performance [P1].........................................3
L02 Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal...........................6
Using your organization evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and
motivational techniques enable effective achievement of goals in an organizational
context [P2]...................................................................................................................... 6
LO3 Demonstrate an understanding of how to co-operate effectively with others...........8
Using your organization Demonstrate an understanding of what makes an effective
team, as opposed to an ineffective team [P3]..................................................................8
LO4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior to a given business
situation............................................................................................................................9
Using your organization Apply concepts and philosophies of OB within the
organizational context [P4]...............................................................................................9
Conclusion:.................................................................................................................... 11
Reference List:............................................................................................................... 12
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Introduction:
The main aim of this discussion is to judge the several factors related with the
organizational behaviors that hinders or fosters the organizational activities. For proper
understanding of the organizational behaviors, the managers of the organization need
to be judge the entire scenario of the organization in order to include the necessary
criteria required for the organization in order to increase the business efficiency. In this
context, one of the renowned retail companies in UK, ASDA has been chosen to justify
the organizational strategies and the essential changes that has been done by the
organization in order to incase the service efficiency of the company (Vibert, 2017).
The political social and the economical factors are going to be discussed in this
particular study to have understandings of the entire scenario. Apart from this, the
teamwork, co-operation between the employees are also most vital factors that is
directly related with building an effective organizational culture for the organization
(Pinder, 2014). In this scenario, which the organization is going to entre in new market
and at the same time to fulfill the customers’ choices promptly, firstly they need to build
up a proper organizational culture that will increase the business efficiency of the
organization. In this context, it is going to be discussed that how the political, social and
the power allocated to individual helps to build up a proper organizational culture for the
organization. The impacts of all this factors upon the production efficiency are also
going to be highlighted in this module.
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L01 Analyze the influence of culture, politics and power on the behavior of others
in an organizational context
Using your organization analyze how an organization’s culture, politics and
power can influence individual and team behavior and performance [P1]
There are several aspects of the organization, which is directly focusing on improving
the condition of the organization culture in order to increase the organizational efficiency
and to achieve desired target of production. The impacts of the culture, politics and the
organizational power upon steady organizational culture are discussed as follows:
Organizational Culture:
A steady organizational culture builds up from the effective organizational behavior of
the employees and the managers of the organization. The managers of the organization
need to come up with effective ideas of maintaining proper rules and regulations based
upon which the entire organization can achieve the desired target of the production
efficiency and the customers satisfaction (Pinder, 2014). Being one of the largest retail
companies, ASDA has developed a numbers of organizational strategies for the
employees by following which the company has managed to overcome the issue faced
from the market. Apart from this, while the organization is planning for expanding their
business in the international market, the employees of the organization need to be
responsible enough in order to maintain the proper organizational culture. The values
beliefs and the set of norms that the managers and the employees of the organization
need to be followed are the basis of forming proper organizational culture (Zhao et al.,
2015).
The corporate culture can be also subcategorized as the top down and the bottom up
approach. The top down approach is based on the factors of the organizational norms
that the employees and the mangers need to follow. The bottom up approach is related
with the nature of customer, their purchasing behaviors, and the sub cultures and so on.
All these factors are essential for the ASDA Company to be taken into consideration in
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