Relationship between Culture, Politics, Power and Motivation in Organizations

ORGANIZATION AND
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
The relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that enables teams and
organisations to succeed providing justified recommendations..................................................3
Influence of the organisational culture, power and politics on individual behaviour..................4
Influence the behaviour of others through application of behavioural, motivational theories,
concepts, and models...................................................................................................................6
Evaluating how process and content theories of motivation and techniques related to the same
enable effective aim achievement at P&G...................................................................................7
Critical analysis of team development theories, philosophies and concepts that influence
behaviour and productivity of the business.................................................................................9
Implication of theories to improve performance and behaviour at P&G.....................................9
Application of how philosophies and concepts of organizational behaviour inform & influence
within P&G................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour refers to the behaviour of the individual for interacting within
group. The organisational behaviour is studied for the improvement of the job performance and
encouraging leadership among the employees of the company.
The current report will be based on Protector and gambles (P&G), which falls under the
category of leading international of consumer goods in UK (Products that make life a little
easier., 2022). It is an organisation that provides products of the personal hygiene. It deals in the
products such as personal health, consumer care, feminine, family care etc.
This report discusses relationship between culture, politics, power and the motivation that
helps an organisation in growing and surviving in the competitive market. Furthermore, it
describes about various models and theories of the motivation for achieving the goals and
objectives of the organisation. This report explains about the negative and positive impact of the
power and politics.
MAIN BODY
The relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that enables teams and
organisations to succeed providing justified recommendations.
The organisational culture has great influence on the working of the employees. As
organisation culture refers to the value, ethics, belief of an organisation on which it works
(Akanji, and et.al., 2019). The culture of the organisation has a direct impact on the performance
of the employees as it defines the way in which employees will be motivate to give their best in
the organisation. Power of the person can have negative or positive impact on the employees of
the organisation. If the power is used in correct way than it will help in the accomplishing the
goals. But if authority misuses this power than this will have negative impact on the employees.
And it will lead to the organisational politics. The politics among the peer members will affect
the productivity of the employees. For the success of the organisation it is recommended that
protector and gambles should provide training to its employees for adapting the changes and
learning new techniques that will lead to the professionalisation in the working of the employees.

Influence of the organisational culture, power and politics on individual behaviour
Organisational culture of the protector and gamble company is generally to encourage the
leadership under the firm. According to the Charles handy culture there are four types of the
culture that an employer must follow. These are.
1. Power: power refers to the authority of the person to take decisions. These provide a
special privileges to the individual. The person who hold these power has important place
in the organization as they are person who will delegate the duties to the individual.
2. Task culture: in this type of the culture teams are formed for the achievement of the goals
or for solving the critical problems of the company.
3. Role culture : role culture is the type where employees are delegated roles according to
their expertise. For extracting the best out of his performance.
4. Person culture: where individual feels themselves to be more important than the
organization. The effectiveness of the employees is affected under this type of the
organization.
The protector and gambles uses the task culture in its organisation, as it assign the work
to its employees according to their expertise in their field. The company is known for their
ethical values and the way they delegate the task and responsibilities to the individuals. It helps
(P&G) in exhibiting the leadership qualities that leads to explore the work in the international
market.
Power
Power refers to the position of the person or title of the person to influence or give
directions to the individual subordinate to them. (Card, and et.al., 2020). According to French
and reven there are five forms of the power that can be defined as follows:
1. Coercive power: It refers to the person who threatens the individual subordinate to its
authority, if they fail to perform the task assign to them (Foucault, 2020). This fear can
be generated in the mind of the employees of (P&G) by threatening them to demote, loss
of job, giving bad review on their performance. This power is used by the protector and
gambles leaders when, it is in financial crises. As there is shift in the management and
transition.