Organisational Behaviour and Team Efficiency

Organisational behaviour
and Team Efficiency

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................3
P1 Impact of organisation's culture on individual and group participation in organisation:.3
TASK 2......................................................................................................................................6
P2) Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques,
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context.....................................6
Part B..........................................................................................................................................8
Task 3.........................................................................................................................................8
P3 Understanding of effective team as opposed to ineffective team.....................................8
Task 4.......................................................................................................................................11
P4 Philosophies along with concept of organisational behaviour.......................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................13
References................................................................................................................................14

Introduction
Organisational behaviour is a systematic study of individual and team members
attitude towards organisations culture. How employees of the workplace are behaving
towards the day to day tasks given to them impacts the diversity, performance, job structure
and goals of the organisation. Waitrose and partners is one such British Supermarket
company dealing with selling groceries showcasing the effect of culture, power and influence
on the performance of organisation. The company is headquartered in England UK since
2017. Analysis of report showcases different forms of individual and group behaviour at
workplace with application of management concepts and theories on organisational
behaviour.
Task 1
P1 Impact of organisation's culture on individual and group participation in organisation:
Due to high product quality and sales density Waitrose has been successful in
maintaining its long term relationship with individual farmer groups and suppliers committed
to sell only British farm products. The company aims at combining both supermarket
structure with specialist shop stores offering customers with good value of money for their
service and products. One reason that best services are provided by the company is the
motivation of individual employees towards achieving self and organisations goals both.
(Balwant., 2018)
There are positive and negative factors impacting the development of selected company
discussed below:
Authority and responsibility towards team and individual members
Position of an individual defines the power of authority he or she possess in the chosen
company.
Mainly managers are the ones who influence other members of team to perform particular
tasks in an effective manner. A person at an authoritative position has the right to provide
employees with appraisals and rewards as per their contribution. (Jacobs, and Manzi., 2020)

Waitrose has been practising various management power and concepts to achieve such
authority and responsibility in the corporation shown as:
Coercive Power : This power is when daily functioning of the organisation is
managed by individuals. In Waitrose power is exercised by the CEO of the company and
managers follow his orders to enhance the performance of their group members individually.
Referent Power: This power is distributed to individuals based on their behaviour
and influence on the company operations. Under managers leaders work at different level
teams for a particular department . These leaders at Waitrose are awarded with this power in
various functional units.
Reward Power: Individuals offered with performance based incentives and benefits
are assigned this power in the form of rewards to award it to individuals in their team who
deserves it. Waitrose assigns such power to its board of directors who rewards employees of
the firm as per their performances.(.Muchiri., Shahid, and Ayoko., 2019)
Information power: Individuals possessing the ability to keep exact record
information of all functions are given this power to maintain reports. CEO of Waitrose has
this authority to have control over all reports of different departments such as audit
department, financial department etc.
Politics impact on team members and individual:
In order to validate multiple decisions on individual behaviour reflects politics in an
organisation. Mangers of Waitrose take care of the political aspect of the firm for the
organisations welfare.
Again there are multiple political factors affecting team member's behaviour selectively or in
groups :
Organisational culture: If there is high amount of politics in the organisation it
affects the culture of the workplace directing towards negativity. This eventually affects
overall productivity of employees.
Changing attitude: Rumours are a part of politics and sometimes it affects the
attitude of people working in the organisation in a negative way. Also if get wrong
information may hurt their values and result in their loosing interest in performing the job as
per roles and responsibilities given.
Organisations culture impacting individuals and team:
This factor affects the values of an organisation. Waitrose culture is built up by its employee
and employer contribution. This form of culture can be found in a management theory called
Handy's cultural typology explained as follows: