Influence of Organisation Power, Culture & Politics on Individual & Team Performance

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Influence of organisation power, culture & politics on individual & impact on team
performance............................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques,
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context......................................7
Task 3.............................................................................................................................................10
P3 Effective team & ineffective teams.................................................................................10
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................13
P4 Concepts & philosophies of organisational behaviour...................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
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Introduction
External environment of every organisation is very competitive and dynamic at the same
time that is resulting into development of certain strategies to understand the impact on the way
organisations are developing their behaviour. There is a need to develop a detailed overview of
different factors that are causing a impact on the way organisations are developing their
functioning and are affected by the culture politics power. Present report is dealing with the Hays
travel that is one of the largest travel agents of UK. They are all having specialisation in
providing high value and Quality Services to their customer base. They have purchased the retail
portfolio of Thomas Cook in the year ending 2019 and this has resulted into increasing of the
shop numbers that have rising from 180 to 737. Present report there is discussion of the way how
Rapid expansion has affected this travel agency and they are embracing their culture for working
effectively with each other. There is discussion of the content and process theories along with
understanding the overall relationship that is present between the power politics culture and
motivation in the organisations (Gkorezis, and Petridou, 2017). Further there is discussion of the
different types of teams that is effective teams and ineffective team along with there is
application of philosophy is for the purpose of understanding the organisation behaviour in a
provided business situation.
TASK 1
P1 Influence of organisation power, culture & politics on individual & impact on team
performance.
Organisations politics power and culture can possess an impact on the way individuals and
organisations are functioning together. These are some of the factors that have both negative and
positive impact and affecting the development of organisation.
It can Influence politics power and culture in highest level can possess a impact on the individual
and team behaviour as mentioned below:
Influence of power:
Power can be applied the manager for the purpose of motivating employees in an
organisation in order to enhance the productivity. There are different types of powers that can be
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used in Hays travel for the purpose of developing a detailed understanding of its impact on
organisations functioning:
1) Coercive power:
It is the type of power that is provided to individual for the purpose of managing daily activities.
This power is not suitable for Hays travel letter to very strict management and that may not be
applicable for valuing employees (Pinder, 2014).
2) Reward power:
It is related with the objective of rewarding employees so that they can be motivated to increase
their contribution. In Hays this power can be exercised by providing promotions training and
development programs and rewarding employees by using various monetary and non monetary
incentives.
3) Expert power:
This power is used when an individual possess high amount of knowledge and special skills that
is related with a particular field of work. In Hays travel this type of power can be used in case of
experts directing the employees in some situations that are contingent and not suitable.
4) Referent power:
It is the power that is provided to individual and can possess the influence on their working
behaviour. In Hays this power is exercised but in a limited way there is need of very high
confidence by leaders for their employees and to achieve my loyalty towards the organisation.
5) Information power:
It is regarded the type of power that is provided to individuals who can access the confidential
financial or any other type of information for organisation (Miner, 2015). In Hays travels this
power is only exercise by the top management like the board of directors who are able to
maintain the information that is required to influence the performance of employees.
6) Legitimate power:
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