Organisation Behaviour: Impact of Culture, Politics and Power on Individual and Team Behaviour and Performance

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.................................................................................................................................................8
Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team......................................8
Critically analyse at least two group development theories to discuss the effectiveness of
teamwork in achieving the goals.....................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of human activities in an organisation. This concept of the
behaviour is helpful in the improvement of the organisational life using the theories for the same.
Every individual has its own way of interacting with the co workers in between ways and levels for
an organisation and even in the manner there has to be a respond for any kind of circumstances. The
company which is used in the report is Tesco, this company was established in 1919 and Jack
Cohen is the founder of the company in the area of Hackney in London. This company mainly deals
with the supermarket, hypermarket and the superstore. (Buchanan,., 2019.)Books, furniture, clothes,
internet services and more are the products produced by the organisation. In the report there is a
brief explanation of the organisation culture, politics and power and how this impact on the
individual and team behaviour. There are also the theories and techniques that help in motivating
the organisation in obtaining the set objective. Even there are philosophies that are helpful in
motivating the employees and the group to obtain the targeted goal.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
How an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
and performance.
The behaviour of an individual in an organisation is known as the organisational behaviour. Every
individual in the organisation has different ways to interacting with the people in the organisation
and even the way they react on any kind of situation in the organisation. There are three levels of
the organisation that are tool level, middle level and the lower level management. A ll these factors
help in improving the working environment of the organisation and increases the level of perform
of the staff in an organisation. This also improves the way of thinking about new development in the
organisation. (Caputo,., 2021.)
Culture:
The culture in an organisation showcase the framework of the company whether it is profitable or
non profitable in nature. There are guidelines for the organisation to work, which are combination
of practises, expectations and values which are for the members and the employees. In context of
the Tesco company, there is a particular culture followed by them in which they value their clients
and the co workers.(Matloob, A., 2019) There are basic rules and regulations that are followed by
the company for having a smooth running of the company that every employee is bond to follow.

There is a model formed by Charles Handy's in 1932 at Ireland,which is Handy's culture model that
is useful in influencing the behaviour of the employees and the even the organisation. Mainly there
are four kind of culture that are followed by an organisation which are as follows:
1. Power Culture : The superiors of the organisation have the power to control any kind of the
situation in an organisation. Their main task is of making decisions for the organisation and
they can even forward the authority to any capable employee. With reference to the Tesco
company, this factor is used for the maintaining the loyalty of the company. In this company
the employees work according to the order given by the superior to them, and which leads to
a better performance of the company.
2. Task Culture: In this culture the employees of the organisation are divided in the groups so
that the task can be performed in smooth way and to resolve the problems. Similar the Tesco
company follows this culture such that there is no pressure on any particular employee and
the task can be performed without any trouble.(Isensee,et.al, 2020.)
3. Person Culture: It is a culture where the employee of the organisation thinks or worries
about his or her personal growth rather than of the organisation due to which the company is
at loss. Similar for the Tesco company, it gives permission to its staff for thinking about
there individual growth.
4. Role Culture: This is a culture where there a role assigned to every employee on the basis
of their talent, the amount of responsibilities they can handle and the knowledge they have
for the particular subject. The Tesco company, believes that all the employees of the
company should be able to perform all the task effectively so for the same a training is
provided to the employees.
Influence of culture on individual and team behaviour performance are as follows:
Tesco company provides a choice to the employees of the company to choose the area of interest for
working effectively in the organisation. There is a proper way that are for developing new
techniques and skills which are helpful for the growth of the company. There are training, events
and seminars for the betterment of the employees personal growth as well as the companies growth.
All these cultures are followed by the company so that there is a smooth running of the company
and there it helps in promoting the team task.
Politics
Organisational politics is a tool that is used by the company for improving the interest of the
individual and organisation encouraging the plan for the action. (Hochwarter,et,al. 2020.)The
organisational politics has 4 parts which are mentioned below:
1. The Woods: It is used to protect employees. It focuses on invisible hypotheses rather than