Effects of Culture, Power and Politics on the Organisation

ORGANISATION AND
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Influence of organisation culture, politics and power on individual and team behaviour.....1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Theories of motivation and techniques for attainment of goals.............................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Comparison between effective and ineffective team.............................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within organization.......................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Behaviour of a person in an enterprise is very much significant similarly an association
behaviour towards its employees, consumers is necessary to analysed seriously for understanding
their minds. However, organisational behaviour is a study of employees action in an enterprise
by showing their influence within the firm (Andersson, Jackson and Russell, 2013). In this
report, the company which is going to referred here is A David and co. Ltd. which is medium
sized enterprise offers production and distribution of fruits in number of geographical region on
regular basis. Along with this, organization provides fresh fruits, vegetables, prepared goods and
bakery products on daily basis to hospitality industry, schools, nursing homes as well as having
contracts with governing bodies. Initially assignment throw lights on impact of culture, politics
or power on performance of individual and team. Furthermore, it also highlight numerous of
theories and techniques of encouraging employees towards attainment of personal or
professional goals. At the end of this project comparison between effective or ineffective team is
also outlined and concept or philosophies of organizational behaviour used by David and Co Ltd.
TASK 1
P1 Influence of organisation culture, politics and power on individual and team behaviour
An enterprise is a term which is defined as a place that organizes and controls target and
goals of an organization and its behaviour signifies the modes by which employees may interact
with each other at workplace. Effective training is conducted by managerial team of an
association for their staff members in order to accomplish their assigned task and activities in
effective way (Ashkanasy and Humphrey, 2011). However there are number of reason behind
implementation of improvement events such as; for highlighting the background of a company,
its structure, values, norms, policies, strategies and so on. Therefore, culture, politics, values ,
power of a David and co Ltd. have a greater impact on employees behaviour and influence their
performance because if environment of an organization is not comfortable for them then they are
enable to perform their task and activities. Along with this, it resulted in failure in achievement
of personal and professional objectives which indirectly affects image of entire company. Thus,
affect of power, politics and culture on individual as well as behaviour of team is highlighted as
follows:-
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Influence of culture:- Culture of an organization have a very strong impact on
performance of overall company because environment is key to motivate employees towards
their job role by making them more comfortable (Avey, Palanski and Walumbwa, 2011). Along
with this, it shows the corrective path to workers in order to perform their assigned roles and
responsibilities efficiently for attaining set objectives or goals.
(Source:- Shaping Organizational Culture, 2017)
Above diagrammatic representation shows the three essential dimensions of culture
which must be considered by enterprise.
Therefore, classification of culture is defined below:- Power:- According to this element, culture of a David and co Ltd. plays a major role in
getting power within enterprise as well as encourage employees to adjust in the
surrounding where full control is in the hands of particular individuals. Basically this
term shows the authority which is granted by board of directors to their managers for
managing or controlling specific department (Bolino and et. al., 2013). Role:- Culture of enterprise also supports in assigning roles of employees as per their
specialization or by considering relevant facts or figures. It means as per this element,
top most authority of a company is responsible for deciding the job role for hired
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llustration 1: Shaping Organizational Culture