Organisational Behaviour Analysis: Asda Company Report, Semester 1

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of organizational behavior within the context of Asda, a major UK-based retail company. It delves into the influence of organizational culture, politics, and power on individual and team behavior and performance, utilizing models like Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions and Handy's Model to assess cultural aspects. The report evaluates employee motivation, examining content and process theories, including McGregor's theory, to understand how to achieve organizational goals. Furthermore, it explores effective team dynamics and their impact on performance, along with the practical application of organizational behavior concepts in a business setting. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding and managing these factors to foster a positive and productive work environment within Asda.

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Analyse the role of organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and
team behaviour and performance...........................................................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P2. Evaluate the motivate to the individuals and teams to achieve the goals though with
organization perspective.........................................................................................................4
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................7
P3. Demonstrate of the study of effective team can stimulus to the other performance........7
LO4................................................................................................................................................10
P4. By implements the concepts and applications of organizational behavior in a having
situational business criteria...................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
An organisational behaviour is a procedure of systematic managerial study of human
perspective behaviour and attitude with the context of organisation. It compiled the human
attribution linked with the organisation structure that how an individual can behave or contribute
the skills towards the task accomplishment (Schueffel and Vadana, 2016). The study of human
behaviour is determined on attitude and perspective about the individual in terms of situation
arises the steps taken by the individual would give a favourable outcomes or not, as well as it
also mapped the performances through the pursuing of the activity or approaches by an
individual in the organisation evaluate by an manager or expertise in organisation behaviour.
Introduction of company structure
Through the basis of retailer industry the company is obtaining the competition in the
market with other company in retail firms is ASDA plc company which is also comprising to
deal the groceries and basic home décor products sustain to procure the consumers, as it is based
on United Kingdom. The study of Organisation behaviour in Asda company to scrutinize the
employees attributes and their behaviour are suitable towards the organisation aspects or not. The
purpose of conducting is to making assurance the successful work is pursuing healthy and
peacefully manner (Arya and Evert eds., 2017).
LO 1
P1. Analyse the role of organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and
team behaviour and performance.
The specific role of organisation in culture, power and politics in behalf of organisation
behaviour where it customized the characteristics of organisation in the perspective of politics,
culture and power with the context of Asda company. Somehow, it implies through the context
of company for improvising and impact these factor in employee performance and behaviour.
Organisation Culture
This aspect is represent the major core values, behaviour, attitude and other attributes
which are linked in human nature in the relation with organisation premises to evaluate the
performances as per the competencies (Agras and Ates, 2015). Through the people’s reaction on
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the situation arises as the way they represent themselves in terms of knowledge and certain
behavior.
Hofstede Cultural Dimension: The dimension is represented the study about the survey
in primary factor of the workforce values, where it elaborated about their behavior analysation in
factor which are driven organization perspective basis are given below: Power Distance Index: In this stage of dimension it comprises about the exceed level of
the less influencing to others where the power is not distributed equal way, the
description of lower power is delivered the discrimination and biaseness while higher
order of index is indicates the equality of driven power in the society. Uncertainty avoidance: In this event the people are experienced the embrace of the some
event in something which they are not determined where organization usually follows the
consideration of high influencing index behavior and guidelines with views and lower
degree influencing index shared their ideas and visions.
 Individualism vs Collectivism: The group of people are gathered together in the
organization as working to leads their group mates where people are representing the own
perception as in his/her factor, and the collectivism refers about the gathered people are
interrelated with the extended to other traits of group where in these featured of group
have loyalty in unlimited way and they all supported each other within other specification
of group. Masculinity and femininity: By understanding of the dimension is covers the meaning
of the Masculinity is propounded about the goal oriented, high positive influence,
achievement oriented to derives as to known of success. In other aspect of the femininity
factor is derives about the women respect traits and they both helps to reduces the gender
gap in the organization.
 Long term orientation vs short term dimension: According to this dimension it regulates
about the connection within the long terms in high index featured to offers the optimum
solution of the issues and challenges as necessity in the presence of organization. Short
term oriented are reflect the lower degree of the poor economic development which
would not integrated in positive way.
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Above Hofstede dimension culture are discussed about the effective different sources of
featured about culture related in organization perspective where it supported to reduces the unfair
elements that creating the barriers and conflicts within the working objectives as it circulate the
effective positive environment, Asda Company also implies the cultural dimension where they
accumulated with their employees traits and behavior rectify and provided them a healthy
working environment.
Handy’s Model is a prescribed model which describes about the management tools
which is assorting to analyze the organizational culture aspects in terms of individual and team
performance. On the basis of this report of organizational behavior the Handy model is
considered for mapping the scenario of Asda plc company internal structure.
The organizational culture consisting a Handy’s Model that recommends the features and traits
of regarding power, role, task of the employee in organization perspective are explained below:
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Illustratio
n 1: Dimension of Culture, 2020
Source: Dimension of Culture, 2020

 Power culture: In organization the role of power culture having the impact on a major
individual whose the influence spreads towards the organization premises.
 Role culture: In this having a role culture based on the role of the individuals as well as
group which is highly potential and controlled through the roles and responsibities.
 Task culture: This is form with the only motive of to attain the specific addresses the
objective which having provides the organizational task (Dasgupta, Das and Das,
2015).
 Person Culture: The personality culture is certainty of particular person’s culture
which confined the influence in the organization premises through effective workforce,
skills and performances.
As for the Asda retail company they having the power culture where it would generates
the optimum work productivity with positive working environment on that the employees
work and deliverables in the better outcomes and also it leads to guidance about the right
strategy implementation of responsibilities and duties.
Organizational Politics:
The factor of description about organizational politics derives the procedure of human
behavior in the context of high power and authority which can controlled as well as managed in
the systematic manner the work environment of organizational premises, where now the
organizational politics is a technique which it helps to balanced the work and employees
behavior with the work culture.
It is the are four quadrants Metaphors organizational politics which influence the power
as well as maintain the organization activities within the premises, So there are following major
highlight point of organizational politics are given:
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 The Rocks: This is emphasis the power where it implies on an individual employee
through one to one interaction in a formal way in context of providing the title, Job role,
expertise etc.
 The High Grounds: By enhanced about the formally activation of higher authority
implementation within the organization in context of making policies, rules and
regulation with proper guidelines.
 The Woods: By applies the formal procedure and guidelines which can affect the
organization compliances related to norms and policies towards the development of the
safety measures within the work culture (Kuttig and et. al., 2015).
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Source: Four Metaphor Quadrant, 2020

 The Weeds: According to this quadrant it derives the informally activities which are
uncontrolled and flexible by which the organization.
Basic Strength Weakness
Organisational Politics  As the organisational
politics are driven to
the construct the
structured where
similar skills and
knowledge of the
grouped people
together by implies the
compliances employees
performances and other
professionalism
activities get specify or
visualise effective
coordination and
individual employee
performances are
highly effective in
nature.
 It regulates the implies
the disciplinary
working traits in the
premises.
 The influencer of
organisation premises
are not regulatory basis
as sometime planning
of politics moderate
possibility of succeed.
 Individual personality
could reach to meet the
organisation politics
objectives it requires
intelligence ability.
 Majority of unskilled
people could not
prevails effective
politics in the company
premises.
Through having discussion on the organizational politics with the context of Asda company there
would be considered the factor from Metaphors quadrant as The Woods aspect where it
facilitates the good amount of compliance about work and systematic approach to accomplish the
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objectives where the workforce can work according to that rules which bring the discipline in the
company premises.
Organizational Power:
The conceptual theory of organizational power is having the abilities to create the
influencing environment which can affect the behavior and attitude towards the stakeholder
through which it can controlled all activities and undertake authority of all compliance decision
within the organization.
Below there is a type of power elaborated which influenced the organization decision
making effective:
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Illustration 3.: Types of Organisational Power,2020
Source: Types of Organisational Power,2020

 Expert Power: It is emphasis about the proper and effective knowledge on any factor
subject that having with experts where they can assorted to implement the improvisation
in the workforce performances as well in the organization culture activity.
 Reward power: To making the elaboration from the ability of a person by which it
influence the allocation of appraising the incentives within the organization, these
incentives are related with the bonus, increment in the salary, promotional activities and
gaining the positive performance appraisal.
 Legitimate Power: This power is basically hold the position power where a particular
person holds in the context of delivering the suitable job roles and responsibilities within
the organization premises as it have only can puts the inputs by top level of management
who have decision power to enhanced it.
Through the scrutinizing the above power factor in the organization aspect the better and suitable
power can be considered for Asda Company as Legitimate Power which can influence to making
the effective decision as in correct form of way through which organization can work as on the
way of compliances format and top authority will bring dynamic factor as to generate the
reshaping of the organization.
LO 2.
P2. Evaluate the motivate to the individuals and teams to achieve the goals though with
organization perspective.
Motivation: this is the part of management theory as it helps to scrutinize the lacking
part of individual or group weakness where it supports to make stimulus for improvising the
morale values and inner confidence for making them stable where they can achieve or
accomplish the desirable goals of personal as well as organizational aspect. The explaination
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theory of motivation is constructed by McGregor where it described about the role of motivation
in managerial aspects such as in leadership, coordination etc. Motivation has compiled the
important two theories which explains about the function and key role in the management
aspects and business aspects are as Content and Process Theory.
Content theory: The nature of this theory is reflecting of those specific factor of people
who are constantly focuses their objectives or goal for just making it accomplish for gain the
sense of satisfaction in anyways (Kumar, 2015). With the perspective of organization like Asda
company determines the employees goals as well as organizational goal to make fulfill through
right form of approach. As the content theory basically generates the importance about motivates
objectives or they help to provide the guidance to find out the right needs which can related
towards the objective and for that motivation helps to reach to meet up the individual’s
expectation.
It drafts the Maslow’s hierarchy Theory that compiles about the specifics needs which is
considered towards the basic essential factors which can fulfill the needs in right approach
manner
Maslow Hierarchy theory: This theory is defines about the best approaches of attaining
all the needs which are aspect into individuals and group motive which includes the observation
and curiosity of human’s specific needs (Burke, Genn-Bash and Haines, 2018).
 Phycological Need: The factor of the major basic needs of human which is necessary
presence of human life to survival, It enhanced the needs like food, shelter, water, clothes
etc.
 Safety needs: As on the major essential productivity of security measures where every
human being want in his or her life weather it related to personal or professional life
such as insurance, health measures, allowances or other benefits which derives the long
term satisfaction.
 Love and Belongings: This theory is also known as social belonging where after the
basic and safety needs the particular person having a desire to attaining love from
family, friends or at workplace.
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