Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on Organizational Behavior

Organisation and
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................1
P1.Examine influence of culture, politics and power on behaviour or others in organisational
context.........................................................................................................................................1
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................4
P2. Analyse how content and process theories of motivation and techniques of motivation
which enables effectively achievement of goals in context of organisation...............................4
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................7
P3. Describe what makes an effective team as opposed to ineffective team.............................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4: Apply concepts and philosophies of organisation behaviour with respect to Ford UK:......9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational Behaviour is field of study that examines impact of groups, individuals
and structure on behaviour within company for motive of improving knowledge for effectiveness
of enterprise. It is a systematic process of examines attitude and behaviour of both groups and
individual in organisation. It mainly focuses on explaining and understanding actions of
individual and groups in business. It is a systematic study to improve forecast of behaviour
(Standish, 2019).
Ford is a British owned subsidiary company which deals in automotive industry. It is
operates in two manufacturing sites of UK, Dagenham and Halewood. It has record of biggest
selling car and commercial vehicle brand for about 45years respectively in UK.
In this report it is considered impact of politics, power and culture on team performance
and employees behaviours, various theories and techniques of motivation are also determined. In
addition, it also includes ways of making team effective as opposed to ineffective team are
addressed. Furthermore, theories and concepts of organisational behaviours in terms of Ford UK
are discussed in report.
TASK1
P1.Examine influence of culture, politics and power on behaviour or others in organisational
context.
Employee behaviour is consider as ways as how they understand, react and communicate
in respect of particular situation at workplace. As every team member has different perceptions,
views and attitudes so this leads impossibility in coordination between them it shows
ineffectiveness within staff members. There is negative impact on overall business by behaviour
and performance of employees. In context of Ford UK following are factors that have direct
impact on human resources (Diaconescu, Tomforde and Müller-Schloer, 2018).
Organisational Culture is collection of expectations, values and practices that inform
and guide actions of all members of team. In every company, culture is very important it affects
all aspects of enterprise from punctuality and tone for employee benefits. Culture has key
advantage when it attracts talents and outperforming the competition. For understanding impact
of culture on employees performance and behaviour Handy's Model is discussed below:
Handy's Model for Organisational culture
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` Charles Handy is a well known philosopher was born in 1932 in Ireland who is
specialised in organisation culture. According to this model there are four types of culture which
company have to follow: Power Culture: According to this type, there are some organisation in which power
remains in few hands of people and only they are enable to take decisions. They are
people who enjoy special advantage at workplace. They are important people of
enterprise and take important decisions for company. These people delegate duties and
roles to other employees. It is a responsibility of subordinates to follow instructions
which are given by their seniors. Employees don't have freedom to share their ideas or
express their views on an open forum. If mangers of ford UK use this culture so they
attain proper discipline, they can enjoy special privileged and also in regards there is no
chance of misuse of authority. It has also negative impact in terms of respective firm as it
leads to internal conflict, partiality and mental & physical burden. This have direct
impact on behaviour and performance of employees (Drury, 2018). Task Culture: Organisation in which teams are formed to solve critical problems or
achieve targets have to follow task culture. Individuals with common specialisation and
interest come together in organisation to form a team. In this type of culture every
member of team has to contribute equally and attains task in most innovative manner.
With Task Culture of organisation often position temporary teams, having cooperation is
paramount. If Ford UK uses task culture it leads to positive impact as by maintaining
proper coordination and cooperation between different personalities of employees with
various skills. This will leads to increase knowledge and abilities of employees and also
there is elimination of money & time of business. There is also negative impact of
disagreement and internal conflicts because of difference in perspective (Dhiraj, Kumar
and Joshi, 2020). Person Culture: There are many organisation in which employees are feel as they are
more important then enterprise. This culture is simply known as person culture in
business. In this culture individuals are more concerned about themselves rather than
operation. So by this organisation by this culture eventually suffers and takes a back seat.
Employees only come to office for only for sake of money and not have attachment to it.
They are rarely loyal towards management and never decides to favour company. Every
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