Role of Organisational Culture in Enhancing Business Effectiveness

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Role of culture in enhancing business effectiveness with emphasis on communication.......6
Organisational culture and employee motivation...................................................................7
Evaluation of ways Sainabury’s could utilise business culture to gain success.....................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is defined as the study of how people interact within the groups
and an interface among human behaviour and organization. In addition to this, it is a
multidisciplinary study of staff member interactions and the organization procedure which seek
to develop more cohesive and efficient organization. There are mainly for elements of
organizational behaviour that is people, external environment, technology and structure as well.
It is important for an organization to conduct such study as it help in gaining knowledge about its
employees behaviour at workplace. Organization behaviour not only assist employees
understand themselves but also help higher authorities to promote innovation, increased job
satisfaction, encourage leadership, improve job performance, develop a positive working
environment and so on. For the present report, Sainsbury is taken into consideration it is the
second largest supermarket in UK that offer product in more than 20 countries and has around
1,20,000 talented and skilled staff members, which is the reason of its higher growth and success
at marketplace. The report will cover theories as well as models of culture, communication and
leadership. Along with this, there is a discussion about the role of culture on employee
motivation and how culture improves organizational effectiveness in a proper manner.
Theories of organizational culture
Culture is defined as value, assumptions, beliefs, expectations, ways and other aspect which
bring changes within the organization and business as well. In addition to this, it also impact
employees and other people associated to the company. It is important for an organization to
maintain a positive working culture within an organization in order to retain its employees and
maintain its performance level in an effective manner (Balwant, 2018).There are various form of
culture which generally impact on the behaviour of teams and individual. The Handy' typology
model of culture involves five type of culture that is mentioned below:
Power culture: In this type of culture, power remains is in the hands of few people and they
are authorized to make decisions. These people are most important at workplace and are major
decision makers. It is analyzed that such type of culture impact negatively on the employees as
power in few hands decline the morale level and confidence level of staff members. In context to