Influence of Culture, Power and Politics on Team and Individual Behaviour

ORGANISATION AND
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................3
LO 1...................................................................................................................................3
P1 Influence of culture, power and politics on team and individual behaviour..............3
LO 2...................................................................................................................................6
P2 Content and process motivation theory....................................................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................11
P3 Theories for developing effective team ..................................................................11
LO 4.................................................................................................................................14
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour and leadership styles. ...14
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour consists of range of activities which the organization
uses to understand the behaviour of their employees and knowing the aspects which
motivates them. This helps the organization to undertake the strategies which will help
them to retain employees.
Sainsbury is basically the renowned chain in supermarkets being established in 1869 by
John James Sainsbury and headquartered in London, U.K. It mainly deals in
supermarkets, banks,Energy etc. and is present in more than 30 countries.
This report gives a brief about Influence of culture, power and politics on team
and individual behaviour, Content and process motivation theory, theories for
developing effective team and philosophies of organizational behaviour.
MAIN BODY
LO 1
P1 Influence of culture, power and politics on team and individual behaviour
Handy's model
This model basically addresses that there are four types of culture which prevails
in the organization and influences behaviour of employees
Power culture
In this, the power is being held by some few individuals who at the end influences
the other individuals. This culture consist of some rules as well as some regulations and
thus the employees are required to follow these.
Role culture
In this culture, the organizations establishes rules as well as regulations and thus
the employees are highly controlled through the imposition of these rules. This type of
culture have the advantage that employees work on the definite path and according to
rules.
Task culture
This culture is recognized by the formation of teams which are required to
address the specific problems or task. This is largely determined by high team dynamics
and thus have the culture of team collaboration.

Person culture
Organizations having this type of culture contains the employees who tend to see
themselves as unique as well as superior within organization in comparison to others.
This type of culture is simply person-oriented and have the individuals which tend to use
their power.
French and raven power
This addresses that the leaders and managers have different types of power
which they exercise on employees.
Coercive power
This is based on coercion where the employees are forced to perform some
tasks. Here the main aim is compliance. In this, leaders and managers pressurize the
employees to do some work so that they remain under control of rules.
Reward power
In this, the leaders and managers reward their employees for their outstanding
performance and thus encourage them to keep this attitude in the future. This increases
the motivation level of employees.
Legitimate power
This is the in which employees are rewarded for outstanding performance and
punished for the bad behaviour. Thus, managers exercises certain degree of power
over employees.
Referent power
This is the power which is based on sense of approval and personal acceptance.
Leaders serve as role model and have the necessary charm from which the employees
learn.
Expert power
This is the power which leaders derive from their expertise as well as experience.
Through their great experience, leaders often lead their team members in correct
direction and thus motivates them.
Impact on behaviour
Culture is basically the characteristics as well as the features of a particular
group of individuals that differentiate them for others. This culture plays a great role in

Sainsbury and thus impacts the individual and team performance. It also influences their
behaviour in positive as well as negative way. As the Sainsbury have diverse workforce,
thus sometimes it results to conflicts among the members due lack of understanding of
different culture, language, perspective etc. On the other hand, it also helps the
employee to understand the different view points of people and thus make rational
decision by considering all alternatives. This eventually improves the communication
behaviour of individuals and team (Pradhan and Jena, 2015).
Politics is predominately the range of activities which are associated to influence
and improves the personal as well as organizational interests. The politics which leader
and manager exercise in Sainsbury and this influences the individual and team
behaviour in both positive and negative way. When there is high degree of negative
politics in the company like showing favoritism, biasness then it demotivated the
employees and result in negative behaviour. Whereas when company has positive
politics like equal opportunity then it leads to positive individual and hence team
behaviour.
Power in organization is the ability of individual to influence other individual or
group. There are different types of power which the leaders and managers of Sainsbury
exercises and thus affect the behaviour of individual and team in both positive and
negative way. For example when the management takes negative use of their positional
power then it often leads to frustration in the individual for that leader on the other hand,
when the leader use positional power to motivate and guide employees then it results in
the emergence of respect in employees for the leader.
Impact on Performance
The politics, power and culture not only affects the team and individual behaviour
but also leads to positive as well as negative performance of the individual and the
whole team. Like for example the culture in Sainsbury is well-known for diverse culture.
This diverse culture sometime results in conflicts which leads to the decreased
performance of individual and the whole team while when employees appreciate the
diverse work-culture then their productivity increases and hence the entire team
completes the activities more efficiently (Buchanan and Huczynski, 2019).

Similarly, the degree of politics in Sainsbury also matters for performance of
employees. When the organization foster positive politics then employees tend to feel
motivated and thus their overall performance increases and their commitment towards
work increases. On the other hand, the negative politics tend to demotivate the
employees because the leaders and manager often shows favoritism and thus this
reduces their productivity and the overall performance of the teams.
Power also influences the performance of the employees in both positive and
negative way in Sainsbury. For example when the leaders and managers make use of
positional power in negative way then it results in the loss of self-confidence of
employees due to which their performance towards work decreases. While on the other
hand, when they use the positional power in positive way to provide right direction to
employees then the employees work with more enthusiasm and thus this increases their
performance. Therefore, in this way power, politics as well as culture highly impacts the
performance of individuals and team as well as the overall organization.
D1 Relation between motivation, politics, power and culture
Culture with motivation, politics, power
The culture, power, politics as well as motivation shares the well-through
relationship and thus affects the overall growth of employees and the company. The
culture has a basic interrelation with the motivation level of the employees. When the
company follows adhocracy culture wherein the employees are being encouraged take
challenging task and thus are motivated. This has a positive relation with politics that it
supports positive politics in organization providing equal opportunities to all (Agrawal,
2015). This culture also leads the manager and leader to exercise power which will
influence the employees in positive way. Thus, when the organization has great culture
then it eventually leads to high degree of motivation among employees and increases
their performance.
Power with motivation, politics and culture
When the leaders and managers in Sainsbury exercise power to guide and
encourage the employees for their participation then it results in the development of
cooperative culture and team culture within organization. Besides this, utilizing the
power in the right way does not lead to negative politics in the company and hence