Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Organizational Behavior

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyse how culture, politics and power can influence individual and team behaviour and
performance............................................................................................................................3
M1 Critically examine how power, culture and politics of a business entity influence
performance and behaviour of team and individual...............................................................6
P2 Assess how process & content theory attain goals and objectives of an organisation......7
M2 Critically measure application of these theories influence others behaviour..................9
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3 Discuss what makes a team effective and ineffective.......................................................9
M3 Examine effective theories of team development..........................................................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P4 Apply various philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour in context of
organisation..........................................................................................................................11
M4 Investigate and measure how concepts & philosophies influence behaviour in positive as
well as negative manner.......................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is defined as the implementation and analysis of person, team
and group behaviour in the workplace. There are a variety of OB tasks, such as knowing,
regulating and forecasting the actions of a person. This is a file that includes an overview of the
organization's actions of persons, classes, and structure. This expertise is applied to improve the
company's productivity and profitability. This theory applies to different corporate problems
such as efficiency of workers, incentives, market climate, etc.
The Body Shop International Limited is a British beauty, skin care and perfume firm,
trading as The Body Shop. Created in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick, the brand currently has a
variety of 1,000 items available in over 3,000 stores in more than 65 countries, distributed
between those issued by the business and independently owned and operated shops. The firm,
which originally traded in Brighton, is now headquartered in London Bridge and Littlehampton,
West Sussex, and is controlled as a division of the Natura & Co group by the Brazilian cosmetics
company Natura. Between 2006 and 2017, the firm was owned by L'Oréal, a French cosmetics
company. L'Oréal decided to sell the business to Natura for £880 million in June 2017. In
September 2017, the deal was accepted..
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how culture, politics and power can influence individual and team behaviour and
performance
Organizational behaviour is characterised as a study that measures the influence of
various factors such as power, politics and culture on the success of individuals. Organizational
culture is a concept that involves the ideals, opinions and behaviours that an entity holds. Each
and every company has distinct operating and functional processes (Chan, and Lai,2017). In
order to accomplish corporate targets, there are distinct techniques implemented by numerous
organisations. Multiple administrators with their own form of inspiring workers and increasing
the happiness of employees. Employees employed in the business are influenced by the office
politics, influence and tradition that is practised. Bodyshop is a UK retail chain that supplies
clients with a range of items. It must provide workers with a healthy work environment so that
they can meet the company's desired objectives. Here are the principles of corporate history,
politics and power —

Culture
Community - This is about working in the office with numerous companies. Because of the
culture practised in that business, there are both negative and positive influences on individuals.
It increases employee satisfaction and loyalty where there is a healthy working atmosphere
where all workers are handled equally. Employees of certain companies do not have the ability to
share their views and ideas with senior business management. This limits the interest of staff in
the company's decision making. It is crucial for organisations to create a healthy working
climate. There are various forms of culture embraced by managers in the Bodyshop sense.
Below, these are listed -
Power culture-There are few laws and guidelines adopted by all workers as per this
culture. Few staff or administrators are granted the authority to make choices. Based on what
they do, workers are judged. This adds to fast decision making. This is a strong culture to use for
making the Bodyshop Plc successful.
Task Culture - Which is generated as corporate teams are developed to solve particular
challenges or tasks. Mission is the most critical part, because control is always transferred within
teams and this relies on team members being combined.
Person culture- In certain cases of person culture, persons are treated as distinctive and superior
to the business. To make people live, organisations exist. This is merely a group of people who
work for the same organisation (Conard, and et.al, 2016).
Role culture - There are few laws based on this culture. These are strictly regulated and each
person understands what their duties and responsibilities are. Typically, these types of companies
are hierarchical.
It is important for Bodyshop to provide workers with a healthy atmosphere to improve their
productivity and efficiency. When workers earn bonuses and recognition for whatever good they
do for business, this provides positivity for others to strive harder to accomplish corporate
objectives.
Politics
This is regarded as a detrimental practise that is usually carried out by the organization's
non-performing workers. Their motivation is to draw attention and distract hard-working people.
In nearly all organisations, there are instances of internal politics. Organizational strategy is
divided into four groups, i.e. weeds, rocks, highlands and forests. Personal control and informal