Organizational Cultures and Workforce Motivation

Organisation Culture
and Workforce
Motivation

Table of Contents
INTRDUCTION..............................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Analyse how an organization's culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................3
Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organizational context......................................................5
Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to ineffective team......................................8
Apply concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour within an organizational context
and a given business situation.....................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRDUCTION
Organizational behaviour refers to the study of human behaviour and employees in
workplace are because due to effective study company easily understand their problem in time.
In these actions number of persons are gathered in the form of team and completed the task of in
time which leads to increase the overall performance of management for long duration. The
company which is chosen for understanding the organizational behaviour effectively is TESCO
and is headquartered in United Kingdom (Gopinath, 2021). This report will be covered Analyse
how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance, Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational
techniques enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context, Explain what
makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team. It also covers apply concepts and
philosophies of organizational behaviour with in an company context.
TASK
Analyse how an organization's culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance
In context to TESCO, management must use specific models for run their activities smoothly in
workplace area which are described below -
Charles Handy Model of organizational culture -
Organizational culture refer to the behaviour and attitude of the top level management
towards their workers and also refer to the atmosphere in their workplace (Maryani, 2021). Due
to maintaining positive work culture workers easily share their problems with the seniors which
leads their work efficiency easily. It is a model which is followed by organization in all
department for completing the task systematically. Here culture are mainly distributed into four
stages which are described below -
 Task culture – In context to TESCO, management must facilitate difficult task and
responsibilities to their workers in defined or simple manner. In this way the productivity
of workers are easily enhanced at maximum level.
 Power culture –In relation to TESCO, these type of peoples are highly responsible for
taking major and final decisions in workplace area and also for providing roles to their
team members.

 Role culture – In context to TESCO, management must hire those candidates for their
company whose knowledge, potentiality and ability are high for completing the
challenging task in time.
 Person culture – In context to TESCO, management must maintain these feeling
between employees in workplace area for long time. Due to maintaining these feeling
good relationship between all levels of employees are also sustained in long term.
Types of organizational politics -
Organizational politics is basically a process or technique which is used by company for
handle the workers easily (Masale, Barkhuizen and Schutte, 2021). Politics are also essential for
run the activities of organization smoothly and also for grooming the personality of employees at
maximum level. Here management basically used two methods for monitor their workers which
are described below -
 Rocks – In respect of TESCO, management must develop strong network strong
coordination or network with their workers, with stakeholders and also with departments.
Because due to maintaining strong network risk are effectively decreased in their
functions and their business activities in long term.
 Weeds – In context to TESCO, management are mainly focusing on those employees
who are responsible to create threat for the organization. For reducing this it is necessary
for company that they must implement strict rules and norms for control the employees
effectively.
Types of organizational powers -
Organizational powers refer to the ability or authority which influence the behaviour of
various stakeholders within organisation which includes CEOs, employees and others
(Middleton and Hall, 2021). Due to using various powers by higher authorities employee's or
company always deliver best quality products to customers in time. The powers which are used
by TESCO are described below -
 Reward power – In relation to TESCO, management are facilitating different types of
rewards to their employees according to their performance. It includes incentives, perks
and in hand salary to their employees and other benefits.
 Legitimate power – It is a formal authority and the main purpose for using this power by
TESCO is to provide value for their work and also for manage the workers properly. The

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Influence of organisational power, politics & culture upon individual as well as team
performance.................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Evaluation of how content & process theories related to motivation along with techniques
enables effective attainment of company's goals........................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
Demonstrating an understanding of effective teams and ineffective teams................................7
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
Philosophies & concepts of organisational behaviour..............................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
The concept of organizational behaviour denotes to a study of individual as well as group
behaviour of all who are working in a particular company. This shows a behaviour of every
people within the organisational environment or work culture which creates a straight impact
upon the job structure, employees performance, communication, motivation, leadership and
management along with various other different aspects. The phenomenon mentions the answers
to the people's behaviour with their co-staff working in a same organisation (Bhumika, 2021).
This assists in determining the various aspects such as employees motivation as well as
performance of work that supports business in establishing the tough bonding with their co-staff
within same working place. The present report comprises of the study pertaining to Sainsbury
which is recognized as the 2nd biggest supermarket organisation in UK being established in
London under the banner of a parent company known as J Sainsbury Plc. The report covers an
influence of politics, power and culture upon the organisational actions, various theories of
motivation & the different philosophies related to the concept of organisational behaviour.
TASK 1
Influence of organisational power, politics & culture upon individual as well as team
performance.
The organizational culture, politics or power influences the performance of employees as
well as whole team in a organisation. The positive & negative impact upon the company's
growth is being mentioned by such factors.
Influence of power upon team as well as individual
The concept of power shows the company's authority being provided to an specific staff
of the organisation. This is being utilized by the company's managers in order to work upon their
activities within an effective way. There is an existence of numerous theories which are being
applied by Sainsbury in relation to encourage the attitude of their teams or individual employees.
The theories with context to Sainsbury are discussed below:
 Coercive Power: This power is being concerned with an authority provided to an
individual employee of an organisation with respect to manage the day to day operations.
Sainsbury in this context provides the required power to company's CEO and managers
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so that they can contribute to the enhancement of employees performance with high
effectiveness (Carlisle and Ramudu, 2019).
 Reward Power: This is related to the allocation of power to such company's individual
that offers appraisal, development & training, rewards as well as various others.
Sainsbury furnishes such power to the company's board of directors who by analysing
employee's performance provides awards or recognition to them.
 Legitimate power: This power is being provided according to the work experience as
well as job position within a company of an employee. Sainsbury with this context
furnishes the related power to the organisational CEO who has a full control over the
business and develops each rule for the company that is mandatory requirement to follow
by each employee.
 Referent power: Under this, a power is being allocated in order to enhance the employees
behaviour within an organisation. Sainsbury with this context allocates such power to the
deserves leaders or managers who are responsible for motivating the company's
employees for their effective performance (Enyioko, 2021).
 Informational power: Such power is being allotted to those who carries the capability of
managing the company's information that is concerned with organisational financial
statements. Sainsbury with this context furnishes the power to the company's CEO who is
responsible for managing all financial reports of the business.
Influence of policies on team as well as individual
The various factors that encourages the behaviour of an company's employees with
context to politics in Sainsbury are mentioned below:
 Spoiling the Ambience The company experiences unstable environment due to the
presence of politics within an organisation that has a negative impact upon the behaviour
of employees. This results into spoiling of employees healthy bonding within an
organisation.
 Changes in employees attitude: Politics has a strong power in changing the attitude of
any individual that can give rise to the thought of inequality between employees. This
results into loss of work interest due to that an employee gets demotivated from his job
(Gibbons and Wang, 2021).
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