Organizational Culture: Leadership and Business Management at Tesco

This project delves into the critical role of leadership and business management in constructing and maintaining a robust organizational culture, with a specific focus on the case of Tesco. The research aims to identify how leadership influences cultural diversity within the organization, investigating the methods that promote diversity in the workplace, and assessing the impact of diversified management and leadership on productivity and profitability. The study employs a qualitative research approach, incorporating inductive techniques and interpretivism philosophy, with data gathered through primary and secondary sources. The project examines the significance of organizational leadership towards cultural diversity, the ways to promote it, and the impact of diverse management on enterprise performance, ultimately suggesting effective measures to foster a positive and inclusive organizational culture at Tesco. The literature review covers the impact of leadership on organizational culture and diversity, referencing key scholars to support the analysis. The project also includes a detailed activities timescale outlining the project's phases, ensuring a structured approach to the research and findings.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Aims.............................................................................................................................................3
Research objectives......................................................................................................................3
Research questions.......................................................................................................................3
Research scope ............................................................................................................................4
Problem statement- .....................................................................................................................4
Significance of study-..................................................................................................................4
Research methodologies-:............................................................................................................5
Literature review..........................................................................................................................6
Activities timescale- ....................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

Topic- To identify the role of leadership and business management in building organisation
culture. A case study on Tesco.
INTRODUCTION
Leadership is termed out as action that lead individuals in enterprise towards
accomplishing goals. In addition to this, leadership termed out as cultivates the foundation of
culture that aids to empower employees to accomplish entity mission and vision (Bakatsaki and
Zampetakis, 2020). Therefore, effective leadership aids to facilitates the better culture and
creates strong working environment. Effective leaders and better business management facilities
bring individuals together and enables them to work collectively to accomplish one common
goal. Leader of the enterprise has the tremendous impact over company culture.
The present report is based on topic as to identify the role of leadership and business
management in building organisation culture over business activities of Tesco, it is retail leading
entity that engaged in grocery services. Thus, chosen entity deals in product and services as
books, clothing and electronics etc.
Furthermore, study will outline the aims and objectives on the basis of chosen topic.
Also, report will cover things as aims, objectives, research questions, objectives etc. Moreover,
Key literature review will be conducted towards to undertake the depth analysis over chosen
topic of research.
Aims
To analyse the role of leadership and business management in building cultural diversity
within organisation. With reference to case study on Tesco.
Research objectives
The objectives are outlined in following context as are-:
 To determine the significance of organisational leadership towards cultural diversity.
 To investigate the ways that aids to promote cultural diversity within workplace.
 To access the impact of diversified management and role of leader over productivity and
profitability within enterprise.
 To suggest effective measures to outlines the way that aids to facilitates better
organisation cultural by promoting equality and diversity.
Research questions
 What is the significance of organisational leadership towards cultural diversity?

 What are the ways that aids to promote cultural diversity within workplace?
 How diversified management and role of leader over productivity and profitability within
enterprise?
Research scope
The present research is based on topic as to identify the role of leadership and business
management in building organisation culture. Therefore, managers directly influence corporate
culture with help of leadership, delegation and communication (Demircioglu and Chowdhury,
2020). This must be promote so that enterprise can have better chances to earn long term
profitability and productivity. In addition to this, the research will aids to promote the ways that
assist to streamlined business activities by promoting equality and diversity with help of
maintaining cultural workforce. Henceforth, this study will may provide relevant information to
company manager in manner to undertake the role of organisational culture.
Thus, creating and maintaining an effective organisation structure is significant to
improve performance and productivity. This has been identified that healthy culture motivated
individuals to stay motivated and loyal towards the management. Henceforth research will help
to analyse that how underlying beliefs, assumptions, values and ways of interacting that
contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization.
Problem statement-
In the corporate group, retail sectors and other has identified that lack of effective
organisational culture and integration of poor culture affects the profitability and productivity
(Belrhiti, Van and Marchal, 2020). Therefore, the one of the business problem that has been
identified is that lack of an effective organisation culture results into poor performance and loss
of productivity within corporate group.
Also, this has been outlined that one of the specific business problem is that manager of
company face lack strategies to establish an effective organisation culture to bring improvement
in performance of enterprise.
Significance of study-
The present research topic can be useful to business manager as they face the challenges
of improving performance and productivity within enterprise. In addition to this, the promotion
of the business excellence and productivity the entity is largely depends on organisational culture
and successful execution of crucial changes (Belrhiti, Van and Marchal, 2020). Also, this has

been defined that organisation culture is inclusive of things such as behaviours, values, attitudes
of the members of the organisation. Therefore, this research will aids to identify that organisation
culture termed out as one of crucial factor in advancing the performance. In addition to this,
business managers needs to take steps that will aids to use information to improve performance
and productivity within enterprise.
Research methodologies-:
This is defined as section that allows to individual to undertake critical evaluation with
help of selecting suitable methods. Therefore, these are outlined as-:
 Research approach- This is termed out as one of crucial component in research. In
addition to trhis, this provides framework that how research mustr be gett done. There are
two approach as inductive and deductive. In this, researcher will have the use of inductive
technique.
 Research philosohy- It is defined as belief that put the major focus in terms to
phenomenon that must be collected, analysed and used. Henceforth, philosophies will be
classified such as interpretivism and positivism. In order to analyse information on
chosen topic, the researcher will have the use of interpretivism techniques.
 Research type- This is study that defined as careful consideration to study in terms to
particular concern and problem wit help of using scientific techniques. In addition to this,
research tyle are classified into categories such as qualitiative and quantiative. Thus,
researcher will have the use of qualitiative study (UZhang, Hu and Wang, 2020). Thus,
unforlation can be gather with of framing questionnaire and conducting interview etc.
 Data collection- This is termed out as process that supports to collect and measure the
information on the variable of interest. Thus, data of the research over chosen topic can
be collected with use of techniques such as primary and secondary. In this reseacher will
habve the use of both techniques such as primary as well as secondary.
 Sampling- This is called out as procedure that assist to select target people from
population. Therefore, sampling categorised as probability and non probability. In this,
researcher will have the use of non probablitic approach with use of thematic approach.

 Data analysis- This is process that termed out as to undertake inspecting, cleansing,
transforming and modeling data with purpose of disovering information and to support
decision making (Asgari, Mezginejad and Taherpour, 2020). In this, the researcher will
have the use of thematic analysis so that information can be gather by framing tables and
graphs.
Literature review
Determine the significance of organisational leadership towards cultural diversity.
As per the view of Demircioglu and Chowdhury, (2020) stated that organisation culture is
inclusive of the number of norms in which members of an enterprise experience and describe as
their work setting. Henceforth, organisation culture is that which aids to define that how member
of the organisation use to get interact with one another. According to the view of Bakatsaki and
Zampetakis, (2020) stated that the organisation culture termed out as set of beliefs, values and
behaviour patter that aids to differentiates from other entities. Leader within the enterprise plays
the powerful role to influence individual with facilitating effective organisation culture.
According to the view of Belrhiti, Van and Marchal, (2020) stated that leadership can be
defined as one of crucial components that aids to get together due to effective intervention of
globalisation, technological improvement and diversified managerial activities.
Investigating the ways that aids to promote cultural diversity within workplace.
Diversity can be helpful if this assist people in many of the ways. With help of the
diversified group of employees aids to ensure that there will be wide spectrum of business ideas
and skill that assist to organisation culture to be more innovative. As per the view of Belrhiti,
Van and Marchal, (2020) stated that the one of the effective ways to implement diversity is to
build cross cultural communication as this defined as invaluable skill. In addition to this,
Belrhiti, Van and Marchal, (2020) stated that manager, customer, developing better
understanding of cultural background can assist to improve communication and avoid
misunderstanding. Therefore, the HR of the entities must take effective way to undertake steps
towards to create inclusive work environment which is inclusive of better understanding among
individuals.

Activities timescale-
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Bakatsaki, M. and Zampetakis, L., 2020. International Trends in Managing Natural Hazards and
the Role of Leadership. In Natural Risk Management and Engineering (pp. 63-87).
Springer, Cham.
Demircioglu, M.A. and Chowdhury, F., 2020. Entrepreneurship in public organizations: the role
of leadership behavior. Small Business Economics. pp.1-17.
Belrhiti, Z., Van Damme, W., Belalia, A. and Marchal, B., 2020. Unravelling the role of
leadership in motivation of health workers in a Moroccan public hospital: a realist
evaluation. BMJ open, 10(1).
Zhang, Q., Hu, H. and Wang, C., 2020. Negative mood and employee voice: The moderating
role of leadership. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. 48(1). pp.1-
10.
Asgari, A., Mezginejad, S. and Taherpour, F., 2020. The role of leadership styles in
organizational citizenship behavior through mediation of perceived organizational support
and job satisfaction. Innovar. 30(75). pp.87-98.
Bakatsaki and Zampetakis, (2020) Demircioglu and Chowdhury, (2020) Belrhiti, Van and
Marchal, (2020) UZhang, Hu and Wang, 2020 Asgari, Mezginejad and Taherpour, 2020
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