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Waitrose Organisational Behaviour

   

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ORGANISATIONALBEHAVIOUR
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1. Organisational culture, politics and power influence individual, team behaviour andperformance.................................................................................................................................1M1. Analyses of culture, power and politics influence on individual, team behaviour andperformance in the organisation...................................................................................................4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4P2. Content and process theories of motivation and techniques for effective achievements ofgoals.............................................................................................................................................4M2. Evaluation of influencing the behaviour of others through effective application ofmotivation theories and techniques..............................................................................................7D1. Evaluation of relationship between culture, power, politics and motivation which enablesteams and organisations to succeed.............................................................................................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8P3 Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..................................................................8M3 Team and group development theories for co- operation development................................9TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within in an organisational contextand a given business situation....................................................................................................10M4 Concepts and philosophies to influence the behaviour positively and negatively. ............11D2 Theories of team development in the context of organisational behaviour concept andphilosophies that influence the behaviour..................................................................................12CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour is process of management activities which includesunderstanding, predicting as well as influencing the behaviour of individuals for improvingefficiency of the organisation(Robbins, Judge, Millett, and Boyle, 2013). Such behaviour definesthe manner in which people communicates to perform operations within the work place. Theobjective of organisational behaviour is to understand all the factors which leads to humaninteractions as well as the influences which helps in getting better outcomes. Waitrose is aBritish supermarket founded by Arthur Rose, David Taylor along with Wallace Waite in theyear 1904 and having its headquarters at Berkshire, United Kingdom. The major aim of suchretailer is to double its market shares and increasing the stores to provide services to variouscustomers. It provides food and non food items across the UK. This project report includesdetailed analyse of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others and techniques tomotivate individuals as well as team members to achieve goals. It further includes anunderstanding of how to co operate effectively with others as well as various concepts andphilosophies of the organisational behaviour(Zehetner, Engelhardt-Nowitzki, Hengstberger andKraigher-Krainer, 2012). PART 1TASK 1.P1. Organisational culture, politics and power influence individual, team behaviour andperformanceOrganisational behaviour helps in predicting as well as control the behaviour of anindividual working in any organisation(Fuchs and Edwards, 2012). It includes the attitude,values, togetherness of individuals to perform in groups to achieve the goals. There are manyindividuals working in Waitrose which follows all the rules, regulations, principles to execute thebusiness activities smoothly. In the chosen retail firm, all the activities are performed incoordination between various departments to attain the described objectives efficiently andeffectively. Organisational culture: Culture includes the norms, values, customs, rules which aredeveloped over some period of time. Organisational culture includes the sets of symbols, norms,beliefs, togetherness and values of interaction which contributes to the environment of any1
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organisation. The culture of Waitrose provides philosophies, expectations and experiences to itsmembers for guidance. Such culture leaves a great impact on the working of the firm. Handy's model of Organisational culture: This model explains the organisational culture inwhich individuals follows the rules and regulations to adapt the environment(Wong and Ngo,2012). The leaders of the selected business follows such model. It includes different types ofcultures which are discussed as:Power culture: Power culture constitutes few rules and regulations to describe the rolesand responsibilities. In all the entities, powers are held with some individuals whichinfluences the working and takes main decisions for the well being of the organisation. Inthe selected entity, such individuals delegate their responsibilities to few subordinates tofollow the rules in appropriate manner.Task culture: Task culture is formed when teams are developed to perform or addresscritical problems(Xerri and Brunetto, 2013). In any operational business, variousindividuals who have common interest comes together to form a team which equallycontributes for achieving the tasks effectively in expertise manner. Person culture: Person culture helps the individuals to feel that they play an important aswell as superior function and role in the firm. In such culture, the members are concernedwith their own goals rather than the companies goals. Role culture: Role culture helps in describing the roles and responsibilities of eachmember. These are delegated on the basis of individual interest, specialization as well asqualification. The roles in the selected firm are clear to the employees as they are givenopportunity to select their responsibilities of their own.Thus, among all these cultures Waitrose should select the role culture which will help theorganisation to clarify the roles and responsibilities of each member for achieving the objectivesby taking effective and better decisions for the well being of individuals, teams and overallorganisations.Organisational power: Power is described as the ability of an individual to influenceothers(Emami, Alizadeh, Nazari and Darvishi, 2012). Organisational power is used tocommunicate and instruct all the information related to functions as well as operations to eachmember for successful achievement of business operations. There are distinct types of powers2
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