Unit 12 –Organisational Behaviour

Unit 12 –Organisational
Behaviour
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Organisation culture, power and politics influence and team behaviour and performance. . .3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
Evaluations of the way content and process theory contribute in achievement of organisational
goals.............................................................................................................................................6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................7
P3 Effective teams different from ineffective teams...................................................................7
Team development building theories.........................................................................................10
LO4................................................................................................................................................10
P4 Philosophy of company working behaviour.........................................................................10
Concepts and philosophies of OB..............................................................................................12
Dev elopement theories and concepts for influencing company working behaviour for
improving business process and productivity............................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is study of human behaviour in context of organisation so that
effective strategies can be formulated by manager to coordinate diverse individuals to work
together as a team for common goals. Culture of workplace, power and politics has direct impact
on satisfaction level, behaviour and performance of employees that are working in firm. There
are several factors that motivate or influence individuals to work hard for growth and success of
organisation. This report is about Sainsbury which is second largest chain of supermarket in
United Kingdom with approximately 16.0% market share. Argos, habitat, Nectar, TU are some
of the brands of Sainsbury that contribute in attracting maximum number of customers and
enhancing sales of firm. The report has contained information related to the way culture, power
and politics have impact on behaviour and performance of individuals. It has also describe the
way different motivational techniques enable in achievements of organisational goals, difference
between effective and ineffective team. Lastly, concept and philosophies of organisational
behaviour were used to illustrate the way they contribute in improving performance of business.
LO1
P1 Organisation culture, power and politics influence and team behaviour and
performance
Sainsbury mission and vision statement is ” to be consumer first choice related to food so
it have planned to delivered better services and products to end users.
Organisational culture is a term that can be state the proper way individual needs to
behave within each other’s or shared value, ethics and moral principles within work culture.
Management of Sainsbury devotes time, efforts to provide healthy, safe and secure work culture
to employees so that they are motivated to work hard for growth and success of enterprise. It has
ensured that each individual needs to provide respect and recognition so that they are ready to
work as a team for achievements of common goals (Mansouri, Singh, and Khan, 2018).
Therefore handle culture model will be used to understand the way culture of Sainsbury has
contributed in influencing team behaviour and performance of employees in the firm. Such as:
Handy model of organisational culture: This model have state that there are four types of
organisation culture like power, role, task and person that influence on productivity and
performance of individuals.
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Power culture: It is type of organisational culture in which power is held by only few
individuals that direct the way employees or subordinate needs to work so that company can
attain its objectives. For example: Sainsbury, top management and executive are responsible for
making strict rules and regulation that helps in making quick decision making and performance
of task in best possible manners. Standard procedure and policies of company have contributed
in reducing wastage of time, efforts and resources thus delivering maximum value to end
customers.
Role culture: It is another type of organisation culture in which individuals are clearly stated
about their roles and responsibilities that they need to perform so that company can gain
competitive advantages. For example Sainsbury is huge organisation with number of daily
operation so management have clearly defined roles, position of particular individuals within
firm. Thus, it helps in reducing conflict and confusion among employees in respect to task that
they need to performs thereby they are able to put more efforts for benefits of organisation (Edeh
and et.al., 2020).
Task culture: In this culture, employees that have different skilled, knowledge and experienced
are organised in teams or groups so that they can collective complete particular task and lead to
development of organisation. For example Management of Sainsbury have coordinated diverse
range of individuals to work together for particular task by making use of their respective skills
and talent so that firm can retain its market share.
Person culture: It is not preferable organisation culture, as individuals start thinking they
superior form business so Sainsbury manager have continuously monitor work culture in order to
ensure that no person think himself / herself superior form others (Khan and et.al., 2020).
Through standard rules and policies it have limited power of individuals thus promote friendly
and supportive culture for long term sustainability of enterprise in retail sector of United
Kingdom.
So Sainsbury out of all different culture as per its vision and mission statement
have planned to make use of roles culture, as employees can easily communicate between
each others on the basis of their respective roles and responsibilities within organisation.
Therefore it can be illustrated that role culture influence behaviour as they have to
exchanged information with each other on basis of roles and responsibilities.
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