Impact of Organisational Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behaviour

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART-1............................................................................................................................................3
Impact of organisation's culture, politics and power on individual and team behaviour.............3
Impact of motivation over the goal achievement of the company...............................................6
PART-2............................................................................................................................................8
Effective and ineffective team.....................................................................................................8
Philosophies or concepts of OB within an organisational context............................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Employees are the asset of every company by which a company can achieve its objective. But
the followed culture of the company, politics along with power plays a very important role in
determining the behaviour of the employees and affects their performance level. However, the
motivation and good team spirit along with organisational behaviour towards the employees is
also very important in raising the performance of the employees as well as goal achievement of
the company. This report will study about the impacts which was putted on employees due to the
culture, politics or power distribution within the company. This report will also highlight the
concept of motivation, team spirit and organisational behaviour with the contrast of employees
and company's performance.
MAIN BODY
PART-1
Impact of organisation's culture, politics and power on individual and team behaviour
The company's culture, politics and power plays an important role in influencing and deciding
the behaviour of both individual and team at a wider scale. It is very common that the individual
will show his behaviour as per the culture or internal environment of the company. In the same
way whenever company takes decision or manager by using his power make decision will
directly influence or affects the company and the employees as well. Like the power and culture,
politics or the prevailing policies are also very important and affecting the behaviour of
individual as well as team (da Silva, 2019). It could be better understand with the help of
different models:
Handy's culture model:
According to this model the culture of the company can be divided into four main categories:
Power culture:
As per this culture the power is held by few individual within the company, and they lead or
influence the whole culture of the company. In this culture whatever the power will decide the
actually will be executed. Under such culture employees are judged on the basis of their
achievement rather than their way of working. The main importance of such culture would be
quick decision-making.
Role culture:

Under role culture the company is guided by the rules and everyone knows their work.
Under this culture power is determined upon the role of the person or position of the person
which means that the power is distributed or delegated as per the knowledge, skills, qualification
of the employees. Also, under this culture every employee is accountable for his work (Odor,
2018). Under, this the decision-making process is little slow but effective.
Task culture:
This culture will follow in such companies where work will be done in team or where
teamwork will be promoted. Under this culture the power is equally distributed among the
members of the team. The teams are usually formed to achieve a specific objective or
accomplishment of specific task. The effectiveness of task culture depends upon the dynamic of
the team.
Person culture:
Under this culture individual will consider himself superior to company. The company
will exists but just for the purpose of working. The power will be equally distributed among the
employees because of the existence of same degree of knowledge among the employees
(Yerznkyan, Gassner and Kara, 2017). Only those companies will follow that culture under
which person is more important than company.
From the above four culture it is very clear that the culture of the Shell plays an important role in
determining the behaviour of its individual employee as well as the behaviour of the team which
means that whatever type of culture Shell will follow, will directly affecting the behaviour of its
employee in terms of their motivation level as well as performance level which again lead to
affecting the achievement of objective of the company (Yerznkyan, 2016).
French and Raven model of power:
This model is based on the power concept and shows that how a person having power can
influence other in terms of their behaviour or decision. According to this model the power
basically comes from two sources:
Positional power source:
The power which comes from holding the position which means the position of the
person gives him power. Under this category the power is further divided into four parts: