Relationship between Culture, Politics, Power and Motivation in Organizational Behavior

Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Critical evaluation of the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation............1
Critical evaluation on how culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour ...................................................................................................4
Content theories and process theories of motivation..................................................................4
Relevance of team development theories, concepts and philosophies........................................5
Application and evaluation of how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence
within a given business situation.................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is regarded as an interface that take place among entities as
well as person performing into it. It is a area of study that tends to concentrate upon creating
optimistic working environment and stipulation of development opportunities for workforce in a
group or individually (Andersson, Jackson and Russell, 2013). As per the scenario, the
undertaken organisation for this report is Primark which is leading British Owned Irish retailers.
It is a subsidiary of food processing as well as retail firm related with British foods. This report
covers the relationship among culture, politics, power and motivation which allows and
influences team and firm, effective application of behavioural, motivational theories and others,
evaluation of content and process theories, relevancy of team development theories, concepts and
so on to improve business performance. Moreover, explanation of what makes an effective team
as opposed to an ineffective team are described. Apart from this, application and evaluation of
how organisational behaviour concepts and philosophies influences behaviours in provided
circumstances are also discussed in this report.
Critical evaluation of the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation
Organisational behaviour is considered as a study to measure as well as evaluate the
individual behaviours while performing within work area. There are several factors that impacts
the person functioning as well as it involves culture, power and politics. Power is regarded as
the power of leadership which is possessed through leaders of entities in order to manage staff.
The work area culture means that values, attitudes, beliefs and others into firm. Politics is part of
company as well as it occurs because of pessimistic staff who generally do not work effectively.
Primark is the British- owned Irish fashion retailer is analysing their workplace culture, power
and politics.
Organisational culture: It is regarded as the factor through which an organisation
functions. Culture adapted through entities impacts the practices of business in both way positive
and negative. The staff performance is somehow depends upon work area culture. When there is
optimistic atmosphere into entities, staff may use its potential efficaciously as well as attain their
firm's objectives at stipulated time (Bolino and et. al., 2013). In respect of Primark, various
culture are adapted through managers as well as leaders. Few of these are described underneath:
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