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

Organisation and
Behaviour

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour can be defined as the study of person or individual behaviour
who are engage in the business operations and functions. The main motive to study
organisational behaviour is to analyse the actions and performance of employee's that are related
with job structure, motivation and communication. Along with this organisational behaviour also
leads individuals to achieve their goals and objectives effectively by designing theories and
concepts for firm culture. The organisation chosen for this report is Unilever which is operating
their business in retail and consumer goods industry. It was established in the year 1929 and
started their business in personal care, home care products and many more. Moreover, this report
will focus on organisation culture, politics, power and their influence on team behaviour and
performance (Bienefeld and Grote, 2014). Along with this content and process theories of
motivation will also be covered in this report. In the last, concept and philosophies related with
organisational behaviour are also included in this report.
TASK 1
P1 Examine of organisation culture, politics and power influence on team attributes and
individual performance
The term firm culture is explained as accumulation of value, belief and culture that are
affiliated with controlling and handling the organisation operations in effective manner. In the
context of Unilever's the main motive to implement organisational culture is to develop positive
environment inside organisational premises as it leads organisation to enhance their workforce
efficiency and net income. As per Handy model four different types of firm culture model are
mention as follow:
Influence of culture: In every organisation human resource plays a critical role in
expansion and development of the company worldwide. Along with this Unilever performance
are impacted directly or indirectly by firm's power, culture and politics. So as to accomplish
productive results in the open market place top level management and leaders regulate and
monitors them accordingly (Coccia, 2015). By this set standards can be accomplished in the set
time duration. Below are briefly stated impact of these factors on individual which are as
follows:

Classification of culture: In this case, visions, values, norms and beliefs are the shared
values of organizational culture. This directly assist in determining the interactions with external
universe, inner working and the attributes of all people working in an organization. In order to
under the Handy's cultural typology model the points are illustrated as under:
Power culture: In an organization it is illustrated as power is centralized in the hands of
owner or founder of the company. It is mostly applicable in small scale business where all the
business related decisions are taken by owner itself. On the other hand power culture is
restrictive and build mental stress among staff members because they are not permitted in the
decision making process.
Role culture: In this particular culture, power is ascertained by the roles and
responsibilities assigned to employees in a company. It is highly controlled so that misuse of role
and responsibilities can be done by employees. On the other hand role culture are designed on
detailed firm's culture that are not flat but are typically tall in nature with long chain of
command. Role culture is bureaucratic in nature (Costaguta and et. al., 2018).
Task culture: It plays a significant role in a company. In the working premises of the
firm this type of culture is designed when a specified work need to be accomplished in the set
deadline. Here, the power circulates from team members according to the status of the project.
The outcomes can be productive when the team is made with people who has distinguish
personalities, skills, abilities, leadership, talent and capabilities.
Person culture: In the competitive market place person culture is found in those
particular business where they have specialist in their field such as law firms. In the working
premises specialist work in their single capability and experts in their work . Here, staff
members have total freedom to use their talent and understanding in work.
Unilever adopts task culture so that employees can work effectively and efficiently to
meet their set standards.
Influence of politics: In the working premises, politics are the use of power so that co-workers
are motivated to perform their work effectively in order to benefit the company in the intense
competitive world. Many time it has been seen that subordinates uses politics in order to serve
their personal interest (Farhan, 2018). On the other hand un-necessry politics emerging in the
company is the root cause of decreasing productivity of potential and skilled employees. It is
happening because co-workers get diverted from their assigned roles and responsibilities and