Influence of Organisational Culture, Politics and Power on Behaviour and Performance in Richer Sounds

Organisational
Behavioural

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION:..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Critically analyse how the organisational culture, politics and power in Richer Sounds have
influenced individual and team behaviour and performance in the organisation.......................3
Critical evaluation of the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that
enables teams and organisations to succeed ...............................................................................6
Providing justified recommendations for Richer Sounds, to improve its overall company
performance.................................................................................................................................6
PART2.............................................................................................................................................7
Describe what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..............................7
Evaluate and apply philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour with regard to
organisation and given situation of business. ..........................................................................10
Relevance of Path Goal Theory to improve business performance and productivity...............12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION:
Organisation behaviour can be define as the study and application of knowledge about
human behaviour related to other elements of organisation such as structure, technologies and
system. Organisation behaviour also known as branch of social sciences that seeks to build
theory that can be applied to predicting, understanding and controlling behaviour in organisation
(Chumg and et.al, 2016). Mainly organisation behaviour is related with understanding the
behaviour of employees who perform different role and contribute in success of organisation. in
the context of Richer sounds, company formally began trending in 1978, when Richer opened
his first shop near London bridge. Richer sounds was won 5 retailer of the year from best retailer
award. Company is biggest brand, best prices and expert advice in sound an vision. This report
contains in information about how an organisation's culture, politics and power influence the
behaviour of individual. Different theory of motivation, difference between effective and
ineffective team. Philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisation all is mention
below in this report.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Critically analyse how the organisational culture, politics and power in Richer Sounds have
influenced individual and team behaviour and performance in the organisation.
Organisation behaviour concept gives insight on how employee behave and perform in the work
place, it helps organisation to develop understanding of aspect that motivates employees and
increase their performance. Also help organisations establish a strong and trusting relationship
with their employees. Culture, power and politics are three major factors that influence the
behaviour of individual in organisation. It is very important for manger of Richer sounds to study
these factors so proper strategy can be formulated to improve work efficiency. below is the detail
description of these following factors:
Culture: Organisation culture is the personality of organization, it comprised of the
assumptions, values, norms and tangible sign of organisation's members and their
behaviour. It has great impact on the behaviour of worker working in the company.
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Handy's four class of culture could help to understand the impact of culture on the
employees of Richer sounds.
Handy's four class of culture:
 Power Culture: In an organisation with power culture, power is held by some individual
whose influence spreads throughout the organisation. There are few rules and regulation
in power culture, that those with power decides what happens. Employees are generally
judge by the things they achieve rather than how they do work and how they act (Chumg
and et.al., 2016). It is very important for manager of Richer sounds to ensure that power
should be distributed fairly among all the individual in order to encourage them toward
effective working environment.
 Role culture: An organisation with role culture is based on rules, these organisation are
highly controlled, with everyone in the organisation knowing that what is their role and
responsibilities are. Power in role culture is determined by the position or role on person
in organisation. Disadvantage of this culture is that decision making could become slow.
 Task culture: This culture forms when terms in an organisation are formed to address
specific problem or task. The task is very important thing in organisation, so power of
task often shifts according to the position of task, problem, or project within Richer
Sounds. Task culture influence team members to work effectively in project so that they
can gain power or position within team.
 Person culture: In organisation with power culture, individuals in organisation much see
them self as innovative and superior within organisation. The organisation simply exists
in order complete their tasks or work from group of people. This culture improve the
performance of their employees and Richer Sounds as a whole.
Power: Ability to influence other people and their action is known as power. It refers to
the capabilities of person to influence the behaviour and work of other people in the organisation
(Thomsen, Karsten and Oort, 2016). To understand the power Richer sounds organisation can
use French and Raven’s power types and below is the detail study of it.
French and Raven’s power types:
 Coercive Power: This power involve forcing some to do something against their will.
this usually achieved by being able to punish someone for noncompliance. This power
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