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Organizational Culture of Tesco

   

Added on  2020-10-05

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Leadership Management
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Organizational Behaviour
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ContentsContents...........................................................................................................................................2INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3P1Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and teambehaviour and performance....................................................................................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5P2Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniquesenable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context......................................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7P3Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................7Effective Team.................................................................................................................................8TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8P4Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisationalcontext and a given business situation....................................................................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour is a term that is used to know about the behaviour of people inwork environment. It is a study of behaviour of workforce who interacts with each other andshows their ability to work within organisation. Company taken for the purpose of study is Tescowhich is one of the largest retail supermarket chain in world. It has it’s headquarter in UK.Company provides largest service area in world and employee around 2000 employees. Aim ofthis report is to develop level of understanding about organisational culture and workforcemotivation by using different culture within an organisation as well as demonstration ofunderstanding on how to cooperate with others and lastly application of concepts andphilosophies will be discussed. TASK 1P1Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and teambehaviour and performance.Organisational culture is defined as culture that an organisation has which describesworking condition within it (ARCHER, and CAMERON, 2013). Culture of an organisation isdependent on employees and managers who are supervising them. In context of Tesco a studyhas been considered which will discuss power and politics culture that a manager uses toinfluence the behaviour of team as a whole. Handy has defined 4 types of culture that can exist inan organisation which are discussed below:Handy's TypologyIt is divided into four typesPower CultureIn this type of culture the power is given to few individuals. If this culture is followed inTesco it will help to take quick decisions as power is in hands of single individual. Tesco can usethis culture to overcome its problems and employees will get influenced and performance can beincreased.Role CultureThis type of culture defines roles and responsibilities of employees working inorganisation. If Tesco uses this culture then it can help them to assign duty to employees so thatthey will do task in better way.
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Task CultureThis culture defines task to a particular group. In this culture power of group isdetermined in completing task. Tesco with the help of this culture will to complete specific job atspecific time.Person CultureThis type of culture defines individual behaviour. In this individual find himself to besuperior to others. If used by Tesco this culture will help them to motivate employees to achievegoals and objectives as defined.Power of managersThis is the power of the mangers to influence the thought of employees. As in case ofTesco this will enable them to influence motivational level among employees so that pre-setobjectives of company can be achieved.Legitimate powerIt is power of manager that has been arrived because of position that it holds. In case ofTesco legitimate power is in hands of few managers that enables them to control working of itsemployees. Expert powerThis is a power that has been derived from skills and expertise that an individual has inorganisation (BY and BURNES, 2013). It will help Tesco as if individuals who have the skillsand the knowledge can be made the leaders who can lead the team. Referent PowerThis is derived from interpersonal relationships that an individual has. This is the powerwhich employees follows because of its references. If there is referent culture followed in Tescothen it will influence organisational culture in positive way.Coercive PowerThis is a power that has been derived by creating threat in organisational environment.This is generally used on junior employees. If Tesco follows this type power will help themcreating culture that influence organisational environment and motivate employees to work ingood manner. Reward Power
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