Influence of Organizational Culture, Power, and Politics on Team Performance

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Evaluationorganizational culture , politics as well as power influences individuals ,team
behaviours as well as individuals.................................................................................................3
Content as well as process theories of the motivation ...............................................................5
Effective team explanation..........................................................................................................7
Concepts and Philosophies ororganizational Behaviour:............................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Team performance can be defined as an extent to which team can meet their desired output
goals, team members expectations and various other objectives. There are various factors that
affect that affect overall performance of a team or their behaviour.organization’s culture, policies
and power plays a vital role in in anorganization. These are one of the main factors that affect or
influence team behaviour or performance of anorganization’s employees. It is important
fororganizations to continuously motivate employees or team members so that their efficiency
and overall performance do not get degraded. In order to motivate team members, it is important
to build and effective team (Hu, Zhang and Wang, 2019). There are various theories that helps in
developing and effective and efficient team. This assignment will lay emphasis on influence
oforganization’s power, politics and culture on team performance and behaviour, ways in which
individuals or team members can be motivated in order to achieve goals, ways in which an
individual can cooperate with others and philosophies oforganizational behaviour within
anorganization’s context. organization chosen for this assignment is marks and Spencer. M&S
are British multinational retailers with headquarters in London who sells high quality products. It
was founded in 1884 around 135 years old . It revenue in 2019 is £10,377.3 million (2019).It has
existing 959 stores all over the United kingdom.
Organisational culture , politics as well as power influences individuals ,team behaviours as
well as individuals
Marks and Spencer culture depends on retaining its staff members about 89%. There are various
culture definitions within anorganization thus basic idea that totally depends on values,
behaviours as well as believes that can be created as well as maintained through anorganization
leaders as well as carried the staff members which can differentiate from one firm to another
(Argyris, 2017). The culture of anorganization totally based on a strong set of beliefs as well as
strategy and structure. Thus, Marks and Spencer totally depend on the share beliefs as well as
values that are established by its leaders and also then communicated as well as reinforced by
various methods. Company can ultimately shape the staff members perceptions, understanding as
well as behaviours. Strong culture of Marks & Spencer is considered as the common detonator.
Successful companies have the cultural priorities and also have to focus not only on the
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individual but the company goals as well as beliefs (Benson, Gleich and Leskovec, 2016).
Leaders of the Marks & Spencer live their culture every day and also able to communicate their
identities to the staff members and prospective new hires. Most of the firms are not different
from one another as each firm has to share a common core regarding cultural values such as
healthcare. Most of the private sector wants to grow as well as expenses revenues as they are
competing for dollars as well as market share (Campbell, 2018).
Power and politics
Like every other organization Marks& Spencer has also its own internal system that can be
dictated by power as well as politics. These are the things which control over functions of a
company and features of individual of an organization behaviour (Cicourel, 2017). Power as well
as politics within Marks & Spencer are similar to the traditional politics structure such as divide
thorough the various parts. They are also power sources competing for control that is not
necessary bad thing until and unless someone decides to fight for dirty sense. Power and Politics
of Marks and Spencer within a business can be unique as well as fascinating thing that can have
a serious influence on a behaviour of an organization (Coghlan, 2019).
Marks & Spencer provides a power base for the individual as they create a surplus of income
over the costs by full fill the needs within marketplace but the organization such as Marks &
Spencer also have the political structures that can give high managerial as well as professional
levels. It also depends on the power of an individual's interest as well as activities that can
impacts other people. In organization people do not get the position they want so that they can
enter into the decisions that how to distribute authority within an organization (Cooper, 2015).
It denotes the culture of Marks & Spencer that lay emphasis on the performance of the team
members . In such firms such type of cultural teams are formed so that they can achieve the task
assigned to them in order to solve the problems also this culture also enables the staff members
of Marks & Spencer the opportunity regarding equal contribution to order to achieve the delegate
tasks within an innovate manner (Luhmann, 2018).
For example- Cross -cultural team helps to maintain the diversity in the M&S as they give equal
opportunity all the employees as this considers as their strength. Theses are the factors that can
impacted on the positive as well as negative impact on the company. utilization of power as
well as politics bring the new changes such as reward management such as employees of the
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