Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Power, and Politics

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1 .................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analysing how organizational culture, power and politics affects the individual, team
behaviours and performance of the firm......................................................................................1
LO2 .................................................................................................................................................2
P2 Theories of motivation and its impact on achievement of organizational goals. ..................2
LO3..................................................................................................................................................4
P3 Difference between effective team and ineffective teams. ....................................................4
LO3..................................................................................................................................................6
P4 Concepts and philosophies of OB and leadership styles. ......................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
`Organisation behaviour is the process of analysing behaviour of employees in the firm
because it influences the working of company to great extent. Present study is based on LG
which is an South Korean multinational electronic manufacture. LG manufactures different types
of products like mobiles, television, laptops, air conditioner etc. This study highlights the power,
culture and political on the behaviour of other organisation and also motivate the individual team
to achieve goal. It also reveals the understanding of cooperate effectively with other and showing
the concept & philosophy of OB in business situation. In this regard the present report has been
prepared (Alleyne, 2016).
LO1
P1 Analysing how organizational culture, power and politics affects the individual, team
behaviours and performance of the firm.
The culture of LG can be defined as beliefs, assumptions and the values and ways of interacting
which contributes to physical and social environment of the business.
Handy's four class of culture model
Power culture- In power culture decisions are taken by higher authorities and the employees at
lower level are not allowed to take decisions. It affects the team behaviors they have authority so
they sometimes create work load on the workers as this reduces work quality and also
demotivates them. The culture impacts individual behaviours as they feel that they have less
value as decision making is done by higher authorities only. This created negative impact on the
employee's as they feel like they are treated like machines, less co-operation and thus affects
work performance. This impacts the growth of LG as employees are not satisfied and leaving
their job (Alleyne, 2016).
Role culture- Power in role culture is determined by a person’s position in the organizational
structure. As staff turnover is the major problem, by implementing this culture LG will be able to
make its workers happy which will make them able to retain in firm for longer duration. It
impacts the team behaviors as decision making is painful and slow so when team wants to
implement any strategy the decision making is delayed by management and impacts over all
team performance. This influences the individual behavior is such a way that they do not feel
motivated. As the company has strict set of rules and decision making is slow if affects the
performance of LG (Amofa and Ansah, 2017).
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Task culture- Task culture is created when groups in organization are created to handle an
specific task or project. This impacts the team behaviour in such a way that they feel motivated
as they are given equal responsibility to perform a task. Thus, this influence individual in such a
way that employee is responsible for its own task only which keeps them motivated. Task culture
influence the overall performance of LG, each task is carried out smoothly as role are divided.
Thus, work productivity of LG increases.
Person culture- In this culture individuals are more serious about their personal profitability
rather than the organization's profit (Amofa and Ansah, 2017). It impacts the team behaviours as
individuals are not serious about work, they work for their benefit and not for organization.
Individuals are influences as they do not take initiate foe business productivity. Person culture
reduces the work progress as individuals are not working for LG's benefit.
POLITICS- Due to politics in LG day to day businesses operations becomes difficult. It impacts
the team behaviors as workers are not credited for their efforts as higher authority plays politics.
As a result employee's feels less valuable in LG. Individual's behaviour is also influenced as it
reduces the morale of the staff and demotivates them for doing work. Politics reduces the
productivity of LG as employees relations are not so good, so they do not performance business
task very well (Baker-Shelley, van Zeijl-Rozema and Martens, 2017).
POWER- Power means that higher authority has certain powers to deal with subordinates with
different punishments when certain tasks are not performed on time. This impacts the team
behaviour as they feel motivated by the reward provided. This influences behaviour of individual
as rewards keeps them happy on work but in other sense when they are punished, they don't feel
so good. So this impacts in both way negative and positive. The culture impacts the productivity
of the LG as higher authority makes the workers to complete work on time, thus more output is
generated within limited time (Baker-Shelley, van Zeijl-Rozema and Martens, 2017).
LO2
P2 Theories of motivation and its impact on achievement of organizational goals.
Content theory: Abraham Maslow's hierarchy needs theory.
According to author there are some needs which are required to be fulfilled and are as follows-
Physiological needs- LG takes cares of the physiological needs of employee such as air, water,
food, clothing etc. all these facilities are provided to employees so that are satisfied with the job
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