Organisation Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation and Teamwork

Organisation behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
How an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
and performance..........................................................................................................................4
Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organisational context.......................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.................................9
Critically analyse at least two group development theories to discuss the effectiveness of
teamwork in achieving the goals...............................................................................................11
Concept and philosophies of organizational behaviour............................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
The study of a human behaviour in the organisation is known as an organisational
behaviour. To develop a concept of organisational life and to improve the organisation theory
this plays an important role. It includes the interaction between different level of an organisation
and how people behave or respond in a circumstances. This report is in context with the Tesco
company. The company was formed on 1919, the founder is jack cohen in hackney, london. The
company deals in the supermarket, hypermarket and superstore. An organisation produces a
various products such as books, furniture, clothes, telecom, internet services and many more. The
report considers the organisation culture, politics nad power and how this impact on the
individual and team behaviour. Moreover it includes the motivation theories and techniques to
obtain the objective of an organisation. Along with this it also involves concept and philosophies
of an organisational behaviour, how to motivate the employees and group to attain the goal(Uhl-
Bien,Piccolo, and Schermerhorn Jr, 2020.).
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
How an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
and performance.
An organisation behaviour refers to the behaviour of an individual in an organization.
The interaction between different levels of people and how they react or behave in a
circumstances. An organisation is categorised into three parts that is topl level management,
middle level management and lower level management. It helps to enhance the performance,
raise the satisfaction level of performing the job, encouraging innovation & promoting leadership
Culture
The organisation's culture defines the framework of a company or non profit company
such as charity. It is a combination of practices, expectation and values that provide the
guidelines for the group memebers. With the reference of tesco company, they followed a culture
where they respect their customers and colleagues. The company has set up ba standard and
norms which are followed by every employee and it is essential for smooth functioning of a firm.
The handy's culture model helps to influence the behaviour of individual as well as
organisation's. This model is propounded by Charles Handy's in 1932 at ireland(Gillam and

Cosford,2021). The 4 types of culture which are followed by an orgamnisation is explained
below:
1. Power : It refers to a situation in an organisation where the powers are only in the hands
of superior. They are only involve in the decision making process and Further then they
delegate this duty to other employees. In the context vof tesco , the company also follows
the power culture to maintain the loyalty among employees. As the employees are
directed by their superior and they just have to perform their task as a result it provides
quality work.
2. Task Culture : In an organisation a group is formed or teams are made specifically to
resolve the problems or particular task. The tesco company also follow this culture in
whixch they make a team to perform a specific task.
3. Person Culture : It is a culture in which an individual is concerned about their own
instead of about the organisation. In this circumstances the organisation has to suffer. It
refers to a situation where the employees give more importamnce to themselves than the
firm. Therefore, the tesco company allows their employees to develop and grow
themselves.
4. Role Culture : In this culture the organisation delegate a task, roles and responsibility to
the employee according to their skills and knowledge. Thus, tesco company provides a
training to their employees so that their employee can do each and every work.
Influence of culture on individual and team behaviour performance are as follows:
The tesco company offers an opportunity to their employees to choose their own expertise to
work effectively. They also help their employees to develop the new skills in themselves with the
help of events, seminars and training sessions. The culture follows by tesco company enhance
the working of individual and also helps in promoting the team work which result in attaining the
goals of an organisation.(Erthal and Marques,2018)
Politics
It is a tool which is used to improve the individual and organisation's interest with the
help of activities including encouraging plan of action is known as organisation's politics. This is
used to enhance the performance of a company and an individual to accomplish orgamnisation's
goals. The organisational politics are divided in 4 parts, that is explained below: