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INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is a kind of study which is majorly used for studying or
analysing the manner in which a group of people or an individual act (Buchanan and Badham,
2020) . This study is mostly done within organizations where they focus upon studying overall
performance and behaviour of their employees of staff members. Study of organizational
behaviour helps organizations so that they can strengthen their relationship with their employees
which further helps them to motivate their employees, enhance their performance, bring
improvement within their organizational structure, bring improvement within their leadership
and many more. Today due to increasing competition in the market it has become important for
organizations to understand and enhance their companies’ strategic position and motivate staff
members so that their performance can be enhanced in a much better and appropriate manner.
This assignment will lay emphasis upon case study of John Lewis partnership which is a British
department store that was founded in 1864whose headquarter is in London, England, UK. This
assignment will lay emphasis upon writing a report upon organizational motivation and culture
by focusing upon influence of politics, culture and power, motivational and team development
theories, and organizational behaviour philosophies and concepts.
PART 1
Ways in which organizational power, politics and culture that can influence individual and team
performance and behaviour
Organizational culture
Organizational culture can be defined as a shared system of assumptions, beliefs and
values that helps the organizations in governing the manner in which people should behave
within workplace. These assumed shared beliefs and values have influence upon people who
work within a company. These values and beliefs also help in indicating ways in which people
within workplace should act, dress and perform their roles and responsibilities associated with
their job designation. Culture plays a vital and important role in bringing improvement within
overall performance of employees of John Lewis partnership. There are various kinds of models
that can be used by John Lewis partnership to understand implications of organizational culture.
These implications will be explained with the help of Handy’s Model of organizational culture.
Handy’s Model
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 Power culture: It is a kind of culture in which three are only few high- level senior authority
people within an organization that take any kind of decision or have authority to take
decisions. This culture is being followed at John Lewis partnership. This culture helps them
to bring improvement within their decision- making power and quality of decisions that can
help them to gain success eventually.
 Role culture: It is a kind of culture in which each and every employee has a clear
understanding of their role that they have within their organization that can help them to
achieve both individual and business goals (Maher, 2020). This is helpful to the company in
increasing efficiency of their employees and eventually it helps in achieving success.
 Task culture: it is a kind of culture in which different team formation is done and all the
teams work together for achieving objectives and aim. This culture helps in increasing
effectivity and flow of ideas which further helps in increasing solution efficiency.
 People culture: it is a kind of culture in which each individual sees themselves as a superior
and important person to the organization. In this type of culture horizontal structure of the
organization is more applicable and appropriate
Hofstede's cultural
Hofstede's cultural dimension is a kind of model of cross- cultural communication and was
named after its developer Geert Hofstede. This framework is majorly used to elaborate effect of
society’s culture upon value of its members and ways in which their values are related to their
behaviour is also explained in a proper manner. it has few major dimensions that helps in
explaining effect of culture upon people and their values and behaviours.
 First is power distance index in which power level within an organization is described. This
index is quite high in John Lewis partnership as most of the decisions within an organization
is taken by the top management authorities itself.
 Collectivism and individualism index that helps in explaining relationship among different
employees (Khlif, 2016). This index of John Lewis partnership is moderate as most of the
employees focus upon helping each other so that all the business processes and operations
can be carried out in an appropriate manner.
 Feminist and masculinity index helps in explaining gender equality within an organization. In
John Lewis partnership there is equal distribution of role of men and women as this index is
moderate. Gender inequality within the organization on the basis of gender is extremely less.
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