Impact of Organisational Culture, Politics & Power on Individual & Team Behaviour & Performance

Unit 12 –
Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Impact of Organisational Culture, politics & power on individual & team behaviour &
performance ................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
P2 Evaluate the impact of content & process theories of motivation help in obtain the
organisational goals. ...................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P3 explain Effective and Ineffective team .................................................................................8
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................11
P4 Concepts & Philosophies of organisational behaviour apply in a situation of organisation.
...................................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisation Behaviour consider as a most prominent factor which help to
understand the each and every individual behaviour inside the organisation. Through effective
practices of organisational behaviour, company can determine the behaviour of employees,
group of employees that are performing their job in an organisation. It helps to reflect the
behaviour of every individual who are working in organisational environment that give the direct
affect on the job, performance level, communication, motivation level and many more factors.
This report consider the organisation behaviour of Debenhams company that is famous
multinational retailer company which founded in the year 1778 by William Debenhams and the
headquarter of this company established in London, UK. The main motive of this report is to
analysing the impact of organisational culture , politics & power on the individual and team and
also use various motivational theories to achieve the organisational goals. This report determine
some specific philosophies related to the organisational behaviour.
TASK 1
P1 Impact of Organisational Culture, politics & power on individual & team behaviour &
performance
For every organisation, it is necessary to determine and also evaluate the influence of
culture, politics and power on behaviour and performance of each and every individual and
team. There are various factors which are influenced the behaviour and performance of the
Debenhams company individuals and team (Alleyne, 2016). These factors give positive and
negative impact on the development of the company which are explained below-
Impact of Culture on Individual & Team
This factor mainly affects the value and belief of the organisational culture.
Organisational culture is make by the specific consideration of every individual and team
member. Debenhams culture determined by the topology of Handy's model that basically divided
into different part which explained below- Power Culture – It contain the centralised monitor and control in the company
operations. Debenhams is a large company in which high authority employees have
power to monitor the employees and also improve the overall performance (Arnold,
Fletcher and Daniels, 2017).

 Role Culture – It consider the specific roles and responsibilities of the managers whob
have power to give various roles to the individual and team as per their capabilities and
skills. Debenhams use this role which is help to influence the power of culture. Person Culture – It give chance to all those individual and team who are able to show
their capabilities and Debenhams inspires their employees that demonstrate the
innovative ideas.
 Task Culture – It gives impact on those individual and team members who give their best
efforts so that task can be obtained in a specific manner of the Debenhams.
Impact of Politics on Individual & Team
Politics behaviour give the authority of those individual who are able to take right
decision at the correct time. High authority members of the company are responsible to take
decision on the behalf of of the employees. Debenhams managers and board of directors are
consider various decisions which help in the betterment of the company and also useful in
balance the politics aspect inside the company (De Vito, et. al., 2018). The description of few
politics factors which influence the behaviour and performance of individual and team are given
below-
 Changes in Employees Attitude - Politics can be influence and change the perception of
employees and it occurs inequality inside the company. All individual and team members
may lose their interest toward task and work and also they can demotivate with that.
 Decline the Productivity Level – It has been demonstrated that politics gives the
negative affect in the company and might be remove the targets of the company that
Debenhams want to accomplish in a specific time.
Impact of Power on Individual & Team
Power demonstrates the authority that has been mainly provided by the organisation to
the specific employees. Power has been utilised by the high authority people like managers that
directly influenced other employees to perform their job role in a best manner. Power contains
various authority such as give appraisal and specific rewards on the basis of performance of
employees. There are various types of power that are utilised by the Debenhams so that
company can direct influence their individuals and teams. The explanation of these types and
theories of power are as follows -