Effects of Culture Power and Politics on the Organisation
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Effects of Culture Power and Politics on the Organisation
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ORGANISATIONALBEHAVIOUR
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3LO1 Influence of cultural, politics and power........................................................................3LO2 Motivate individual and team goal to achieve goals of Waitrose..................................6TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................10LO3 An effective team is better than an ineffective team....................................................10LO4 Concepts and Philosophies of Organisational Behaviour............................................13CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour is the study of both individual and group performance in anorganisation. It measures behaviour of humans within a business entity (Alcock, and Rubenstein,2019). Here in this report for better understanding of behaviour of organisations Waitrose istaken. Waitrose limited is a British chain of supermarket It offers various products likeGroceries, drinks and food, etc all over Britain. This report will lay emphasis on Culture, powerand politics that influence Waitrose limited. Also, Content and process theory will be discussedin the report. The report will also explain how an effective team is better than ineffective team.This report will cover a theory which is path goal theory and Philosophies will be explained inreport.TASK 1LO1 Influence of cultural, politics and powerInfluence of culture by Handy's typologyThe Handy's typology will be explained which influence individuals as well team behaviour andperformance of the company Waitrose. Power CultureThe power culture is followed in organisations which is having leadership as autocratic. Here inthis type of organisations decision making is very quick because making the decisions for anentity is in hands of person who has the highest authority. The method of motivation followed inthese kinds of organisation are mainly incentives and bonuses to reward employees. Whereas,Waitrose limited doesn't follow this culture because it is a supermarket chain for whichautocratic leadership won't work. Role CultureThis culture is mainly associated for organisations who follows bureaucracy. Decision making inthese organisations are slow as compared to others because they bother to take risk. This issuitable for companies like Waitrose who have very tall hierarchical structures. In WaitroseLimited, the power is according to roles assigned. Like manager has an authority to makedecisions regarding prevailing supermarkets. Whereas sales personnel’s are concerned regardingsales, they are not allowed to make decisions in behalf of managers (Argyris, 2017). The positionof employees will decide their roles in Waitrose and along with their authority. Task Culture3
In task culture, the groups or Teams are formed in an organisation to perform specific task.Waitrose can follow this culture as they have different departments within organisation like salesdepartment, marketing department, finance department etc. In this, they can make a specifictarget for which every department need to work in team to accomplish it. The employees willlearn to coordinate and cooperate working with team. Although, decision making in such teamsare delegated with a particular team and influence team and organisation in achievement of theirgoals. Such as, Sales department will be take decisions of Sales, whereas finance department willtake decisions regarding budget to attain specific goalof team, individuals and organisation aswell. Person CulturePerson culture is not concerned to achieve organisational goals, rather than employees arefocused to satisfy their individual goals. This culture cannot be followed in Waitrose, because itis a supermarket chain. Where employees need to coordinate with each other to makeorganisation grow (Armstrong, 2018). Employees of Waitrose are more concerned towardsorganisational growth which is a reason of successful chain establishment from many years.Waitrose is a British supermarket chain for which they follow role culture which is suitable andfit the most for their organisation. Although, they can adopt Role culture for their growth as thisway they will achieve some specific target like sales increase which they otherwise not able toachieve. Influence of politics Personal factorsIn Waitrose, there are organisational politics flows within working that influence decisionmaking. Many employees in the organisation satisfy their own benefits and influence decision oforganisation. Personal benefits include time flexibility, irregularity in meeting, corruption,compromises with quality of goods, etc. (Armstrong, 2018). This affects individuals workingcapability as they feel partiality within Waitrose. This increases turnover ratio among Waitrose. Decisional factorsDecisional factors here imply that Waitrose's decisions are severally affected by organisationalpolitics. Employees working in Waitrose for their own benefit influence decisions, so that they4
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