Structure and Culture in Sainsbury Organisation

STRUCTURE AND
CULTURE IN
SAINSBURY
ORGANISATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Structure and culture of the organisation....................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The present and new organisations are concerned with determining the organisation
culture and structure (Zhu and Engels, 2014). The structure is concerned with defining the job or
task which formally divided, separated and coordinated. There are different types of
organisational structure which are adopted by the organisation in order to attain business goals
and objectives. Whereas organisational culture is the set of definite beliefs, values and norms
which are grouped together in order to represent the specific characteristics of the organisation.
The company which will be considered for this report is Sainsbury which has commenced its
operations from the year 1869. this industry deals in retail sector and is the second largest chain
of retail industry in the UK.
TASK
Structure and culture of the organisation.
Organisation culture and structure of the Sainsbury has direct link with the performance
of the organisation (Winnubst, 2017). If saisnbury has good and effective organisation culture
which fulfils the needs of the employees, the proper structure which helps in clearly defining the
roles and responsibilities. This will have ultimate impact on the people or employees of the
company who will stay motivated towards the company and improves their performances by
delivering more productive results.
Organisation Culture
The organisation culture is the set of underlying beliefs and assumptions and the way it
interacts in order to contribute to the social and psychological environment of the company. The
culture of Sainsbury will involve organisations expectations, experiences and importance which
will help in guiding the behaviour and depicts the image of the company by interacting through
outside world. It also determines the vision, mission, norms, systems, etc.
Handy's Model of Organisational Culture
This is the culture model which was developed by Charles Handy who is a leading
authority on organisation culture (Körner and. et. al., 2015). This model is visually described in
form of graph, wherein the, two dimensions are taken into consideration. These two dimension
are power distribution and level of cooperation. The term power distribution is related to the
extent at which the top level management will be able to work with bottom up approaches. In