Organisational Behaviour: How Politics, Culture, and Power Affect Team Performance

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Explain how organisational politics, culture and power can affect team behaviour and
performance ................................................................................................................................3
P2 Motivational theories that enable effective attainment of organisational goals ....................5
TASK 3 ............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Effective team and ineffective team ......................................................................................8
TASK 4 ..........................................................................................................................................11
P4 Philosophies and content of OB ..........................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour also known as organisational management is defined as the way
in which different individuals working within the company behave towards different workplace
situations. This is the academic study of people's behaviour. If an organisation has proper
knowledge about organisational behaviour, different problems and conflicts of workplace will
not arise. The field of OB is related to different topics such as job satisfaction, encouraging
leadership, promoting innovation and employee engagement. In the following report, company
considered is Primark. This is one of the flourished businesses of UK. This company offers
quality products at affordable price. The operations of this company are divided into different
sectors such as Hosiery, Underwear and Nightwear, Children wear, Men's wear and accessories.
This report will help in understanding the concept of organisational politics, culture and power
on performance of team (Alblas, Wijsman, and van Noort, 2019). This includes motivational
theories which an organisation adopts and philosophies and theories of OB.
TASK 1
P1 Explain how organisational politics, culture and power can affect team behaviour and
performance
OB is essential for managing and controlling the behaviour of employees working in the
company. Some factors present at workplace affect the organisational behaviour such as power,
politics and culture. Power is known as leadership by which higher executives control their
subordinates and workers. Culture is defined as value, belief and thoughts that are followed
within the company (Burrell, and Morgan, 2019). Politics is a term which is used as a negative
factor in workplaces. This includes benefiting the non productive employee just because he or
she is friendly with higher executives of the company. All the factors power, politics and culture
are discussed below -
Power
This is an essential strength which must be used by managers and leaders effectively for
managing and controlling business operations and functions appropriately. The top executives of
the company must use their power within organisation effectively. The managers and leaders of
Primark must use their power appropriately for managing business operations. The different
type of power used within Primark are mentioned below -

 Legitimate power – This type of power is present with the top level executives of the
company. They can control and mange the working of different subordinates and
employees.
 Reward Power – This power means leaders and managers give rewards to employees who
have done an excellent work. The managers of Primark provide rewards to good
employees for increasing their performance.
 Referent Power - This is known as Cult of personality. Leaders using this power must
have strong personality which influence other employees to work according to them.
 Informational Power – According to this power, managers are effective for developing
strategies and plans for attaining organisational objectives. This information is related to
strategy of competitors, decision support information, etc.
 Expert Power – This type of power is related to leaders who have knowledge about a
particular topic or filed. These leaders are known as expertise.
Culture
Organisational culture affects the performance of employees a lot. Culture can affect
business activities and operations in both positive as well as negative manner (Dixit, and Singh,
2019). When employees of Primark are provided positive environment at workplace, it affects
them in positive manner. This motivates workers of Primark to work hard and attain
organisational goals. The different type of organisational culture within the company are listed
below -
 Power culture – This culture shows that there are few regulations and rules followed
within the company and these have to be followed by each and every worker. Employees
and workers have to make some regulations and rules that help management of the
company to make their employees work effectively. When this culture is followed in
Primark, employees are judged on the basis of what they are provided and how they are
treated in the company. This is a strong culture for the organisation like Primark in order
to make quick decisions.
 Task Culture – As per the task culture, workers are employees are provided specific task
that has to be achieved in given time frame. This type of culture enables in completing
different business operations smoothly. Different departments of Primark are given
various tasks that has to be done in given time.