LO1 Analysing the Influence of Culture, Politics and Power

Organizational Behaviour

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
Analysing the influence of culture, politics and power which influence individual and team
behaviour of A David & Co Limited...........................................................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................3
Evaluating the theories and techniques of motivation which enables A David & Co Limited to
accomplish its goals and objectives.............................................................................................3
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6
Explaining what makes team effective as opposed to an ineffective team..................................6
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................8
Applying concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisation in
context to business situations.......................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Effective organisational culture create positive impact on the employees and boost up
their morale. It provides guidelines to the team members to deal with various difficult issues and
problems that arise in managing business activities. Managers motivate team members to
coordinate their efforts towards common direction (Fisher and To, 2012). Further, this project
covers about impact of managers who can result in irrational behaviour of individual and team
members.
Project discuss about Arthur David & Co Limited which deals with food & beverage, and
has a turnover of £10M to £20M. Company offer wide range of seasonal, fresh product and
deliver quality products to its customer's. They have a bakery which provide humble sliced loaf
which is designed by artisan baker Hobbs House.
Improve performance and productivity of employee’s motivation play crucial role. This
report covers the topic of analysing the influence of culture, politics and power which influence
individual and team behaviour of the organisation.
LO 1
Analysing the influence of culture, politics and power which influence individual and team
behaviour of A David & Co Limited
Organisational culture: It compromises of the value and behaviour which contributes
psychological environment of the business. Every company has its own structure, in which
people work together as a team to accomplish goals. Good organisational culture of A David &
Co Limited create positive impact on the employees and boost up their morale (Nahavandi,
Denhardt and Aristigueta, 2013). It provides guidelines to the team members to deal with various
difficult issues and problems that arise in managing business activities. Managers motivate team
members to coordinate their efforts towards common direction. Leaders effectively deliver all
relevant information to individuals.
Politics of organisation: It is significant for employees to work hard in order to ensure
their position at workplace. In order to be in limelight and gain undue attention from other team
members, they play politics and nasty comments. This can result in irrational behaviour of
individual and team members (Harms and Luthans, 2012). Politics in A David & Co Limited has
decreased overall productivity and profitability of the business. Individuals who play politics at
workplace, fails to achieve targets and objectives within a given time frame. Team members
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spend their maximum time in criticising each other and pay less attention to work. Politics in
workplace highlight unethical behaviour of managers and thus they criticise the work of team
members.
Power: It is defined as inherent position of an individual which has authority of making
decision and influencing behaviour of other person. It refers to the exchange of relationship
between agent and target with proper allocation of resources. Effective utilisation of power is
essential in achieving the goals and objectives of business (Borkowski, 2015). Power can be
defined as means to motivate others, in order to get desired result. In order to accomplish the
objective, individual can make wrong judgement which can reduce overall productivity.
Organisational culture of A David & Co Limited influencing the behaviour of individual and
team members: Organisational culture is significant to bring control and stability in workplace
by implementing group norms, values, beliefs and assumptions. Positive culture can help in
resolving conflicts and issues to complete work in a prescribed time. It synchronises the
procedure with mission, and create healthy working environment (Salehi and Gholtash, 2011). A
David & Co Limited can be the example of positive corporate culture, employees are motivated
because it offers flexible working hours. It helps in enhancing the creativity, it altogether brings
mission and vision of the company. Employee’s satisfaction is long term objective of the
company, it can be achieved with motivating them.
Employees of A David & Co Limited have positive feeling towards their work,
continuously interact with superiors and team members to resolve grievances and issues. They
develop loyalty while focusing on the needs and requirements of workforce. This help business
in achieving the desired goals and objective with the positive energy (Pieterse, Van Knippenberg
and Stam, 2010). Business leaders needs to develop plans which will help in achieving both short
term and long term goals, with the existing employees.
Politics affecting the performance of individuals and team members of A David & Co Limited:
Positive Workplace Politics: Worker those who have learned to design politics tend to be more
productive than others. A David & Co Limited with their political culture find ease in
understanding the behaviour of employees to encourage its productivity. Establishing of standard
hierarchy facilitate in easy delivering of instructions from one end to other. This will minimise
wastage of time, and individual will get more time to focus on the quality of work (Restubog,
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