The Effects of Culture, Power and Politics on the Organisation

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals.........................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.............................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisation.........9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of human behaviour in organisation while
interacting with other personnel. There are many employees working in organisation in order to
attain goals and objectives i.e. good profits and improved sales. With these employees
organisational culture can be judged. Hence studying behaviour of workers at work place is
known as organisational behaviour (Chiboiwa, Chipunza and Samuel, 2011). In association,
there are many job responsibilities such as purchasing , sales, production, etc. so it is essential to
convey roles and responsibilities in effective and relevant manner, so targets can be achieved
within time and budget. This report is based on organisation which deals in food and beverages
sector i.e. A David & Co Limited. This organisation deals in dairy, bakery, cheese board, frozen
food, etc. This report covers influence of culture, politics and power on behaviour of others,
techniques to motivate individual and team, formation of effective team, concepts and
philosophies of organisational behaviour.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance
In organisation, there are many employees working in different departments. There are
some changes which has to made in working style, so goals can be performed in appropriate
manner. Organisational politics, culture and power are essential because it affects environment of
A David & Co Limited. In food and beverages company, customer satisfaction can be achieved
when customer remain satisfied, so it is responsibility of HR manager of A David & Co Limited
to frame policies which creates good environment within organisation (Dartey-Baah and
Amoako, 2011).
Organisation's culture-
Organizational culture is a method of sharing assumptions, beliefs and values which
provides knowledge related to employee's behaviour in company. In organisation's culture,
shared belief have effective influence on employees in A David & Co Limited and influence on
dressing sense, perform operations and their actions and reactions are studied. Organisational
culture can be understood with the help of Handy's Model. Charles Handy is author of this model
which covers four type of culture. These are discussed as under-
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