Organisational Behaviour Strategy In TESCO

Tesco is a multinational British grocery and retailer which was founded by Jack Cohen in the year 1919. This company is headquartered in Tesco House, Hertfordshire, England. This company deals in clothes, internet services, grocery, furniture, toys, software, telecom, petrol, electronics, financial services, etc.

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P 1. Determining how politics, culture and power tends to influence team behaviour, individual and performance.

Organizational behaviour helps in providing better understanding of why people behave in such a way in the organization. It helps in critically examining the complex behaviour of the individual within the organization.

Organisation's Culture

Organisational culture is considered to be a system of shared values, beliefs and assumptions which intends to govern the behaviour of individual within the organization. Tesco tends to develop an organizational culture by effectively taking into consideration various factors associated with the preference and value, demand of the industry, goals and assumptions (Newton and LePine, 2018). Organisational culture helps in delivering the best level of services and it also helps employees to come on a common platform in order to achieve set goals and objectives of the Tesco company. Organisational culture is very crucial as it helps in shaping the understanding, behaviour and perception of the employee. It helps in determining the environment within which employees work.  This in turn helps in improving team behaviour, individual and performance.  Tesco company tends to focus on creating a positive work environment with top-notch facilities and it also focuses on supporting healthy avenues of communication.  A positive work culture helps in encouraging effective work life balance for employees of Tesco plc. It is also useful in effectively building healthy and positive interpersonal relationship. A positive work culture helps employees of the Tesco company to be more engaged towards work which in turn leads to higher performance and productivity of the business (Company Culture, 2019). Tesco company tends to focus on creating a diverse company culture where all kind of people come together in order to thrive in an affirming and rewarding environment. Another effective culture of the Tesco company is to promote growth and challenges within the organization (Musringudin, Akbar and Karnati, 2017). Tesco company tends to focus on nurturing professional and personal development of the employees by effectively promoting training and development and offering challenging task (Company Culture, 2019).  This in turn helps in improving team behaviour, individual and performance.

Organisation's Politics

This is considered to be as the use of power within the Tesco company in order to achieve certain changes that are beneficial for the organization. Positive organizational politics helps in improving the individual performance and team behaviour. On the contrary, negative politics in the organization tends to lower the individual capability to perform particular task. This in turn results in delay in meeting the goals and objectives of the Tesco company. Politics ion the organization tends to affect the environment of the company which in turn affects the team behaviour and also in turn affects the interrelationship between the parties. Politics also tend to change the attitude of the employees or individual in the organisation. Politics at workplace results in demotivating employees which in turn leads to increased level of stress and engagement to misleading information. This in turn helps in improving team behaviour, individual and performance.

Organisation's Power

Organisational power is the ability to make things happen in accordance with the prescribed guidelines (Gelfand and et.al., 2017). It helps employees to perform certain task within prescribed guidelines.  Power is considered to be one of the crucial factors as it helps in accomplishing the goals and objectives in a systematic and efficient manner. Power within the organization is important as it gives power to the individual to assign roles and responsibilities to perform certain level of task. This helps in making things done by the individual in accordance with one's perspective.  Power is very useful in influencing the behaviour of the individual to perform certain task. Power is very crucial because it helps individual and team members to get their task done which in turn leads to higher performance and productivity at the workplace (Osland, Devine and Turner, 2015). Power has the capacity and compelling force to influence the individual performance and team