Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Organizational Behavior - Waitrose

OB MY ORGANISATION IS
WAITROSE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
COMPANY ANALYSIS....................................................................................................................................3
LO1..............................................................................................................................................................3
P1- Discussing how an organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual, team Behaviour
and performance.....................................................................................................................................3
M1- Studying how the culture, politics and power of an organization can influence individual and team
Behaviour and performance....................................................................................................................7
LO2..............................................................................................................................................................7
P2- Explanation of content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an Organisational...............................................................................7
M2- Exploring Behaviour of others through the effective application of behavioral motivational
theories, concepts and models..............................................................................................................10
D1- Investigating the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that enables teams
and organizations to succeed providing justified recommendations....................................................10
LO3............................................................................................................................................................11
M3- Examining team and group development theories that will support development of cooperation
within effective teams...........................................................................................................................12
LO4............................................................................................................................................................14
P4- Analyzing the concepts and Organisational Behaviour within an Organisational............................14
M4- Evaluating how philosophies and concepts of organizational behavior influence & inform
behavior within Waitrose......................................................................................................................15
D2- Explaining the relevance of the team development theories, concepts and philosophies that
influence Behaviour in the work place to improve business performance and productivity.................17
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
The present report is based on topic Organisational Behaviour which means the study of
knowing the Behaviour of the people related to how they interact in groups and following
different types of the attempts which will result in operating business more effectively. The
chosen firm of the report is Waitrose. The report will discuss about the effect of culture, politics
& power on the Behaviour of others in an Organisational context. Organizational behavior is
defined as appropriate study of understanding about how workers act within a company (Jacobs
and Manzi, 2020). The study will also include different types of the theories and the modal that
are related to the motivation and team that result in effective achievement of goals. With the
assistance of the above report it will also give the information about the how to encourage
individuals and groups to reach at set aim. It will also evaluate how to cooperate effectively with
others and apply concepts as well as philosophies of OB to a given business situation.
COMPANY ANALYSIS
The company was formed in the year 1904 in Acton, London, United Kingdom. It has around
1500 essentials products that also includes grocery, lunchbox, household, health & beauty on the
other hand the services are entertaining, florist, gifts and cellar. The markets of the company are
groceries and other sources (Martin-Neuninger and Ruby, 2020). The competitors of the
company are mark and spencer and Sainsbury. The mission of the company is that the happiness
of their all the members by their worthwhile and satisfying employment in the successful
business (Jones and Comfort, 2020). The partnership of the company is also owned by the trust
of the members and shares the responsibility by giving rewards. The vision and objective of the
company is that everything which is discounters are not be focusing on the services, range or
making their stores expensive (Trewern and et.al., 2021).
Objectives of Waitrose-
 To gain competitive edge
 To enhance consumer satisfaction

 To increase profitability more than competitors
LO1
P1- Discussing how an organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual, team
Behaviour and performance
Politics- it is one of those activities at workplace that includes usage of power and effective
networking to achieve modifications that may benefit a firm and individual within it (Budiasih
and et.al., 2020).
Power- it defined as element that a manager and a leader may use to influence other people
at work area (Cruz, 2021).
FACTORS IMPACT ON
INDIVIDUAL
IMPACT ON TEAM
BEHAVIOUR
IMPACT ON
PERFORMANCE
CULTURE It results in impacting
the decisions of the
individuals that are
based upon the
emergence of gender
inequalities, timing of
the meetings and
reporting business
performance (Hughes,
Roe and Hocknell,
2021).
It impacts the
communication,
motivation,
individuals
performance in the
team by solving
conflicts (Imron and
et.al., 2021).
It is based upon the
productivity rises,
business performance
and business goals in
the organization
(Cheema and et.al.,
2020).
POLITICS It impacts the
Behaviour of the
individuals that are
working in the
organization.
It impact the
Behaviour of the
individuals
(Hochwarter and
et.al., 2020).
It impact the job
performance and
relationships (Zhuang
and et.al., 2020).
POWER It impacts the working By this the team It results in producing

of the individuals members can share
their opinions by
emerging voices
the speed and strength
by movement quickly.
THEORY
POLITICS: by using the four metaphors of Organisational politics the company can influence
individual and team Behaviour and performance. They are of four types
• The weeds
It has annoying personal influence and informal network rules that is very dynamic that grew
naturally without having any maintenance (Haavik, 2020). It is also a good thing. It includes
understanding of different types of networks that plays an important role in the organization on
the other hand it also helps them for long term financial footing.
• The rocks
It is related to individual interaction a formal that are based upon different types of authority’s
data title, roll, and access an expertise to resources. It also includes different types of political
capital that comes from membership that happens from strong ties do a high status group that our
financial committee and senior management team (Williams, 2021).
• The high ground
It helps organization to influence their individual and team behavior performance by combining
formal authorities an organizational system it is also used to describe the rules, structures,
policies and guidelines that are related to political activities. The benefit of this is it provides
check against the individual level autocratic individuals. It is also known as functional political.
• The woods
Providing covenant safety for the people who are working in the organization where good ideas
unnecessary get lost. It is very important to understand the words that are from tease because

they are the format if we focus on the symptoms rather than having barriers to the strategy
execution.
POWER: it considered as system of shared values, beliefs and assumption that show workers
what is right and unethical. By using the handy model of organizational Culture the organization
power influence individual, team behavior and performance. There are four types that is
• Power
In the organization power remain in the hands of the other it is that take decision. They are the
person who enjoyed different types of privileges which is very important in the workplace and
are also known as measure decision makers.
• Task culture
In this the organization gave different task to their employees which will result in achieving the
targets are solving problems by following task culture. In this the organization individual have
common interest to come together to form a team.
• Person culture
In this organization make sure that their employees are very important part of the organization to
achieve the goals and objectives which also resulted in influencing the team behavior and
performance. In this the individual are more concerned about themselves compared to
organization.
• Role culture
In this organization gives different rules and responsibility to their employees according to their
interest, education and specialization to extract best out of them. In this they also decide what
best they can do by accepting the challenges.
CULTURE: Cultural web is a kind of strategic tool that may use to map environment of a
company and is a way of seeing and comprehending varied influences that affect its business. By
using the cultural web model the company influences individual and team behavior which also
include performance that are related to culture (Morris, 2020). It includes six elements that are