Impact of Culture and Motivation on Morrison's Organizational Behavior

This report provides an in-depth analysis of organizational behavior within Morrison Supermarket. It begins with an introduction to organizational behavior and a brief background of Morrison, the fourth-largest supermarket chain in the UK. The report then explores the impact of culture, politics, and power dynamics on employee behavior, referencing Handy's model of organizational culture. It delves into motivation theories, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Vroom's expectancy theory, and how Morrison utilizes them to motivate its workforce. The concept of team development is examined through models such as Tuckman's and Belbin's, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. The report also discusses philosophies of organizational behavior, concluding with recommendations and references.

UNIT 12 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR
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Contents
TABLE OF FIGURE.......................................................................................................................3
1. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................4
2. BACKGROUND OF MORRISON.............................................................................................5
3. IMPACT OF CULTURE POLITICAL AND POWER ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF OTHER
IN AN ORGANISATION CONTEST............................................................................................6
4. MOTIVATION THEORY.........................................................................................................10
5. THE CONCEPT OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT.......................................................................15
6. PHILOSOPHIES OR ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR.........................................................20
7. CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................24
8. REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................25
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TABLE OF FIGURE
FIGURE 1 HANDY'S MODEL OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE.......................................6
FIGURE 2 MOTIVATION THEORIES.......................................................................................10
FIGURE 3 MASLOW'S NEED FOR HIERARCHY...................................................................11
FIGURE 4 VROOM'S EXPECTANCY THEORY......................................................................13
FIGURE 5 TUCKMAN'S TEAM DEVELOPMENT MODEL....................................................16
FIGURE 6 : BELBIN'S TEAM ROLES.......................................................................................17
FIGURE 7 PATH-GOAL THEORY.............................................................................................20
FIGURE 8 SITUATION LEADERSHIP THEORY.....................................................................22
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1. INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is very helpful for the HR manager to understand different type of action
or behaviour within the group so that they will easily generate in highly efficient business
association. The meaning of organizational behaviour is to study the nature of both groups as
well as individual who is working in association to achieve a particular goal. The main reason for
studying organizational behaviour is to understand the association theory and better
improvement the concept related to the type of organisation (Ablesim, 2020). In this assignment,
the discussion will be done related to the impact of cultural politics and power on the nature of
others in an association context. In this assignment, the company which will be taken is Morrison
which is the fourth largest chain of supermarket in the UK.
Motivations theory will also explain and identify their importance in association for success in
this competitive market. The company is using motivation theory so that they will easily
motivate the different type of workers association culture which was followed by all the workers
and different type of factor that will damage the relationship among different type of workers
with their productivity (Admin, 2018). Defining the team and group through different model will
be also explained and their advantages and disadvantages in this competitive market. At the end
of the report, the philosophy of organisation behaviour will be discussed.
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2. BACKGROUND OF MORRISON
Morrison was founded in 1899 by William Morrison. The company is the fourth largest chain of
supermarket in the UK and its main headquarters is in England. The main motive of the company
is to make it easy for their customer and to make a better choice and generally to personalize the
experience. Mostly the company always try to provide good quality of product and services to
their target customer and fulfil their expectations (Ablesim, 2020). The company aims to provide
the customer of a one-stop-shop and give them an extra of what they want at the time of
shopping
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3. IMPACT OF CULTURE POLITICAL AND POWER ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF
OTHER IN AN ORGANISATION CONTEST
Organisational culture
Organisation culture means the value expectations some philosophy and experience that will
make some decisions of acceptable and non-acceptable behaviour of each individual. Morrison
also explains its rules and regulation royalty behaviour customer and all written rules that have
been generated over time (Admin, 2018).
Define
According to Azur (2019) Organisation culture is the proper way to behave within the
association. This culture involves the share belief and value made by the leader and after that,
they communicate them by using a different type of methods so that they will easily shape the
different type of workers viewpoint and their behaviour (Admin, 2018)
Organisational behaviour
Organisation behaviour explains how an individual group of the individual and different team are
interrelated with each other stakeholders or even clients. Also, make sure that coordination or
cooperation among different type of workers must be well in a proper way (Benstead, 2019).
Type of organisational culture and their impact on Morrison
Handy culture theory is applied in Morrison to improve a positive culture. Explaining the culture
of the association into four different categories which are explained below
FIGURE 1 HANDY'S MODEL OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
[Sources: Cheong and Kim, 2018]
Power culture
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In this culture of Morrison, the power to taken decision implemented in the hand of a few
different types of individual and they get some special attention in the Morrison.
Positive impact
Our culture is the top executive of the corporation that will take decisions like setting aim and
objective making a different type of strategy to achieve the vision and mission statement and
many more things (Benstead, 2019)
Negative impact
In this culture, the executive of the company will change different type of activity is very quick
manner due to which the work performance of the employees will affect.
Task culture
This culture is specifically improving to finish a specific project or identifier answer to the
critical issues (Benstead, 2019)
Positive impact
According to the specialisation, the different type of team is formed and the interest of the team
members was also identified. Most of the time will all the team member share their innovative
and creative idea to fulfil the task in a different way (Cheong, and Kim, 2018)
Negative impact
Different type of individual comes from the different background due to which their viewpoints
are also different. The company was facing notes of issues at the time of generating or
implementing the idea in their association (Cheong, and Kim, 2018).
Person culture
In this type of culture, all the workers are more conscious and focus on themselves as compared
to the association
Positive impact
The sale executive of Morrison mainly focus on achieving the target given to them as compared
to focusing on the common goal of the company
Negative impact
This type of culture is not to apply in Morrison because the association is strategies are in the
help and fever of all the workers (Cheong, and Kim, 2018)
Role culture
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On the different type of responsibility are given to workers as per their qualification and their
interest
Positive impact
 all the workers of Morrison as such allocation increase the trust
 generate a sense of belongingness among all the workers
Negative impact
 advertising is provided to the marketing manager so the company need more finance to
advertise their product and services(Cheong, and Kim, 2018)
Importance of culture on individual and team behaviour and performance
This was identified that there is an indirect relationship between culture power and political
factor of the association. On the workers working in Morrison having a positive behaviour
towards the association however particular negative factor negatively affect their working
performance and this condition can be neglected by motivating different type of individuals
(Cherry, 2020). Rocking performance of workers negatively affected because of workplace
politics but on the other side this can be ignored or developed by motivating all the members
with financial advantages like gaining more than the specific standard will give them an
incentive.
Recommendation
From the analysis, this was identified that both power politics and culture play the most
important role and this will also highly impact on the working performance of the company
(Cherry, 2020). This is recommended that the executive of Morrison understand the need for a
different type of individual so that they will easily make an effective culture for the association.
Organisational politics
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Organisation politics are informal an official and some time behind the scenes effort to provide
different type of Idea and also influence the association so that they will easily increase power or
main other target aims of the company (Cherry, 2020).
According to Gaille ( 2018) Organisational politics are self-service provider nature that worker
used to increase the probability to gain some positive result in the association.
Importance of organisational politics
Organisational politics are very important because this will help you analyse the chart of
association as well as understand the informal network. Organisational politics always try to
make a good relationship with the different type of individual so that their behaviour and their
performance will be improved (Chumg et al., 2016)
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4. MOTIVATION THEORY
Explain
Motivation mainly refers to a particular desire or drive to do some specific thing. Different type
of individual is motivated through motivation (Chumg et al., 2016).
Define
According to Cherry (2020) Motivation is one of the most important procedures that take some
initiate, provide guidance and make goal-oriented behaviour.
FIGURE 2 MOTIVATION THEORIES
[SOURCES: Zboja et al., 2020]
Explain how the Morrison is currently motivating individual and team
The leader of the company motivates all the workers through both the intrinsically and
extrinsically. The intrinsic motivations are identified through internal requirement and fear and
on the other side extrinsic motivation identify from external factors such as incentive and bonus
promotion benefit some allowance and many more (Chumg et al., 2016). There are various types
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of theories of motivation which was ably cabled by the association to motivate all the workers to
achieve the business goal successfully.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and vroom expectations theory is implemented by the company so
that they will easily motivate each individual as well as their team members (Chumg et al.,
2016). Once the executive of the company motivates each individual and their team members
then they will finish the work with full of dedication and also try to satisfy the expectations of
their target customer with full energy.
Maslow hierarchy of needs
This is one of the most commonly used theories of motivation improved by Abraham Maslow
that involves 5 hierarchy level of need. Maslow needs hierarchy theory was given by mass flow
that will help to explain the requirement and wants of different workers working in the
association and the hierarchical structure show that how an individual move from one
requirement to the another after its completion (Gaille, 2018). The 5 stages of this model are
implemented and some workers of Morrison implement these structures to keep them satisfied
with a different type of strategy of the association.
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FIGURE 3 MASLOW'S NEED FOR HIERARCHY
[Sources: Yoes and Silverman, 2020]
Basic need
This is very important for the survival of each people like food water air and it will also
important that it must be fulfilled the expectations of the target customer and satisfies the
requirement from other different factors (Gaille, 2018).
Security needs
This is the need which the company has to fulfil. Insecurity needs the study employment stress
free working environment and financial security are provided by the company
Social need
The entire individual working in the associations are focusing on a social animal where they
required the feeling and belongingness affection and attention from their team members.
Steam need
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