Role of Organisational Culture in Enhancing Employee Motivation and Organisational Effectiveness

REPORT

Executive Summary
Organisational behaviour is study of behaviour of organisation and individuals in
organisational setting. This report discussed about organisational culture which is one of the very
important aspect of organisational behaviour and element affecting behaviour of individuals in
organisation. In this practices of Woolworths were considered and secondary research was
undertaken for the purpose of identifying theories and models of the organisational culture.
Secondary research was done through different online sources and through journals and articles
about organisational culture.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Role of culture on employee motivation.........................................................................................1
Ways in which company could use the culture of the organisation to further enhance its success.2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour can be defined as human behaviour study that help organizations
in understanding factors that can influence human behaviour (Yusof and et. al., 2017).
Organizational behaviour plays a vital and important role within an organization. This study
further helps firms in understanding factors that can motivate their employees and enhance their
overall performance as well as further helps in understanding factors that can demotivate their
employees and eventually result in degradation within their overall performance. Organization
that will be focused upon in this study is Woolworths Group Limited. It is a retail sector
Australian Company that was founded in 1924 whose main headquarter is in Bella Vista, New
South Wales, Australia. They specialize in grocery selling, selling magazines, DVD, beauty
products, household products, baby supplies, stationary items etc. This report will lay emphasis
upon identification of Woolworths culture in line with a theoretical model, ways in which culture
improves organisational effectiveness with a focus on communication, role of culture on
employee motivation, and ways in which company could use the culture of the organisation to
further enhance its success.
Identify its culture in line with a theoretical model of your choice
There are different models and theories of organisational culture and these theories
include-
Handy’s Model of Organisational Culture
This model outlines that there are mainly four types of culture in an organisation. Tthese
types are:
Power Culture- This is one of the types of organisational culture in which power in organisation
remains in hands of few people and they are required to take decisions of organisation. These
few people in organisation have all special privileges and are decision-makers in organisation
(Ruck, 2017). Employees in such organisational culture have no option but to follow what
decisions are taken by these people with power.
Task Culture- Task culture is another culture organisation follow and in this culture
organisation is based on teams and these teams are developed to solve specific problems
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