Organisational Behaviour Presentation: Sainsbury's Case Study Analysis

This presentation delves into the intricacies of organisational behaviour, focusing on how leadership, teamwork, and motivation impact employee performance and overall business success, using Sainsbury's as a case study. The presentation explores crucial concepts such as team development models like the Tuckman model, different types of teams (functional, cross-functional, and virtual), and the significance of teamwork and cooperation in enhancing productivity. It examines leadership theories, including the path-goal theory and behavioural theory, highlighting their roles in employee motivation and organisational goal achievement. The presentation assesses how organisational culture, power dynamics, and political factors influence individual and team behaviour, and it evaluates the effectiveness of different motivational theories in achieving business objectives, while also highlighting the importance of building dynamic teams with strong interpersonal skills.

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 COOPERATING ALONG EFFECTIVELY WITH OTHERS
 CONCEPTS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Organisational behaviour is the process of
evaluating how employees behave and
perform their duties and responsibilities at
workplace, which internal and external
factors increase their motivational level and
how management of a business can help
create a feeling of strong relationship within
its employees and workforce.

COOPERATING ALONG EFFECTIVELY WITH
OTHERS
 Teamwork and cooperation is immensely significant metrics in improving the performance,
productivity and efficiency of Sainsbury's team. The main types of teams are:
 Functional Teams: It is a permanent team that includes members from same organisational
department performing distinct duties.
 Cross Functional Team: This team possess members from distinct organisational
departments who come together to achieve some common objective.
 Virtual Team: This team's members aren't in the physical vicinity of one another and have
no face to face interactions between them. People from different countries, time zones,
cultures come together to form a virtual team.

CONTINUE…
 In order to assess the effectiveness of a given team, Sainsbury's
administration should make use of various team development
models such as:
Tuckman Model:
 This model tries to assess team member's behaviours and team
development and can be used for all types of team requirements.
The model evaluates and explains various team dynamics within a
business and how these can be used to increase the performance and
efficiency of a team. This model includes four main processes which
every team has to experience during their operations called Forming,
Storming, Norming and Performing.

CONCEPTS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
 Leadership is a role which is performed by the leaders of the company so
that they can have an effective functioning for themselves and the results
of the organization are up to the standards of the company.
Path goal theory
 The employees have to be motivated, empowered and satisfied with the
work they are doing in the company so that there is a better functioning of
Sainsbury's.
 This is only possible when the leaders are motivated and the organization
will be able to get a competitive advantage because of that factor.

CONTINUE…
Behavioural theory
 B. F. Skinner has given a behavioural theory which says
there has to be a reward which has to be provided to the
employees and punishments if they are not being able to
meet the expectations of the company. Employees must
have motivation and fear in them so that they can give
their personal best in Sainsbury's which will help the
organization to achieve their objectives and aims.

CONCLUSION
 This presentation assesses how the culture, politics and power within an
organisation or business such as Sainsbury tends to influence its individual's and
team's behaviour, efficiency, productivity and performances.
 The presentation also goes on to evaluate the way in which different theories of
motivation enable a business to achieve its objectives and goals and what
differentiates an effective team from ineffective teams. .
 The presentation also studies significance of building a dynamic team with strong
interpersonal skills in employees.

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