Report: Sainsbury's Organizational Culture, Communication, Motivation

This report provides an analysis of Sainsbury's organizational culture, communication, and motivation strategies. It begins with an introduction outlining the models and theories of organizational culture, communication, and motivation, including Handy's model, Edgar Schein's model, Weber's theory, and Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The report then presents primary research findings based on interviews, examining Sainsbury's approach to employee communication, decision-making, and cultural values. Secondary research supports these findings by exploring the application of these theories within the organization. The analysis covers how Sainsbury's fosters its culture through employee meetings, defined roles, and employee empowerment. It highlights how the company applies Weber's theory for structured communication. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of organizational culture in driving success, employee trust, cooperation, and overall performance, underscoring the role of managers in shaping the organizational environment and promoting healthy competition.

Research Project

Table of content
 Introduction
 Models and theories of organisation culture, communication
and motivation
 Application of theories to organisation
 Conclusion

Introduction
 The presentation will include various models and theories of
organisation culture, motivation and communication. It will
also highlight that how this models are used or applied by
Sainsbury's.

Primary research
Organisational culture
 Sainsbury make there employees feel more valued as this
help company to enhance the organisation business
operations.
 In order to maintain the culture of organisation, Sainsbury
holds the meeting of its employees once in a month in which
they discuss about their branch and company and to give
feedback.

Interview questions
1. Which type of communication channel company use?
2. Does management seek inputs from employees for major
decisions ?
3. Most of the projects in organisation are comes from employees?
4. Does employee value company culture?
5. Does the culture of organisation is supportive?
6. Is the thoughts of employees are respected?
7. Is employees problems and effectively handled?

Secondary research
Theory of organisational culture
Handy's model of organisational culture:
 Charles Handy defines organisational culture into four
different kinds of culture which are power, role, task and
person.
 In power culture, power lies only in the hand of few
individuals and all the employees under them have to follow
their orders.
Organisation culture model by Edgar Schein:
 Edgar Schein has divided the model into three different parts.

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Theory of organisational communication
 Weber's classic organisational theory: According to
Weberian theory organisation clearly define roles and
responsibilities and also it defines that communication
within organisation is structured, hierarchical and clear.
 Larwell communication model: It consist of five
components and consist of verbal communication. The five
components are who, says what, in which channel, to whom,
with which effect. It is also known as liner model of
communication.

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Theory of organisational motivation
 Maslow hierarchy of needs: . Maslow has divided model
into five levels as per his views if human attain one level or
need that the desire for other needs arises. The five needs as
per Maslow hierarchy of needs are physiological needs,
safety needs, social belonging, self esteem and self
actualization.
 ERG motivation theory Alderfer: Clayton P. Alderfer
has divided Maslow model of need into three categories
which are existence, Growth and relatedness:

Analysing
Organisational cutlure :
 Organisation culture is something which is intangible but
is important in the organisation. Good leaders usually do not
underestimate the power of culture as they know importance
of culture in an organisation.In order to maintain the culture
of organisation, Sainsbury holds the meeting of its
employees once in a month in which they discuss about their
branch and company and to give feedback. Every employees
are assigned roles and responsibilities as per the employees
qualification and their personal interest. Employees have
authority and freedom to take their own decision.

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Communication method:
 Sainsbury apply Weber's classical organisation theory.In
which all members are clear with their roles and
responsibilities and hence as a result of which there is less
chance of disputes and more chances of effective
communication. A proper and efficient communication
within the team helps the team member to perform more
effectively and efficiently.

Application of theories and models to
organisation
 From the interview which has been conducted it has been
came to known that Sainsbury apply an handy model of
organisation culture.
 As per this model culture is divided into four parts which are
power, task, role and person. However from the primary
research it has came to know that there is role culture in
Sainsbury.
 The employees of an organisation usually feels that they are
more important to organisation.
 Sainsbury make there employees feel more valued as this help
company to enhance the organisation business operations.

Conclusion
From the research it can be seen that organisation culture plays
an important role as it help top manager to create a culture in
organisation which they want and by the help of which they can
achieve success. Organisation culture forces or make its
employees to behave in a particular manner. Thus a good
organisation culture is a key to success. The organisational culture
helps to improve overall performance of an organisation.
A good culture brings benefits to organisation by creating trust
among employees and enhancing cooperation. The manager and
top authorities of company plays an important role in order to
shaping culture of organisation.
Culture of organisation help the organisation to achieve success.
It decides the way in which people should behave in an
organisation. It also helps to create a healthy competition in
workplace.