Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behaviour

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Organisations culture, politics and power influence individual, team behaviour and
performance............................................................................................................................3
M1 Influence of culture, politics and power on team behaviour and performance................7
LO2..................................................................................................................................................7
P2 Content and process theories of motivation to enable achievement of goals and objectives
of organisation........................................................................................................................7
M2 Ways to influence behaviour of other through motivational theories, concepts and models
................................................................................................................................................9
D1 Relationship between culture, power, politics and motivation to enable team to succeed
along with recommendations................................................................................................10
LO3................................................................................................................................................10
P3 Effective and ineffective teams.......................................................................................10
M3 Theories for team and group development to support development of dynamic
cooperation...........................................................................................................................12
LO4................................................................................................................................................13
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour for the business situation........13
M4 Concepts and philosophies of OB influence behaviour in positive and negative ways.15
D2 Relevance of team development theories which influence behaviour in workplace......15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour refers to the communication and connection between individuals
and organisation working in the business for the achievement of their aims and objectives. The

following report helps in understanding the how can a positive environment be developed within
an organisation. It is important to make sure that development of employees and their behaviour
within an organisation takes place along with achievement of aims and objectives of the business
(Olivier-Pijpers, Cramm and Nieboer, 2020). The development of a team and creation of an
effective team is also mentioned in this report. The report deals with two companies which are
Apple and IBM. Apple Inc. started its business from 1st April, 1976. It started as a computers
company and now is one of the leading technology providers across the world. On the other
hand, IBM stands for International Business Machines. It is a hardware and software provider for
cognitive computing throughout the world. It started in 1911. The following report explains
organisational culture, politics and power which influences teams and individual in Apple. The
evaluation of behaviour of individuals is also conducted. Other than this the report also consists
of team development theory applied on IBM. There are a number of theories used throughout the
assignment to explain various concepts of organisational behaviour.
LO 1
P1 Organisations culture, politics and power influence individual, team behaviour and
performance
An organisation comprises of various activities which require setting up of desirable
guidelines and allotting fair and just roles and responsibility amongst the employees based on
their specialization. Herein, Apple company has maintained global dominance all over the nation
by promoting suitable culture where focus was given to think innovative. Maintain positive
policies and through effective delegation of power to effectively fulfil the mission.
Organisation culture: It represents shared values, experience, knowledge and
assumption that assist people to behave in an appropriate manner. As Apple comprises of diverse
workforce so implementation of desirable organisation culture maintains coordination amongst
workforce and focuses in delivering suitable user experience. The defined values are equally
incorporated by all levels of department and carry out smooth operations by maintaining internal
decorum to sustain the healthy culture (Coccia, 2014).
Charles Handy organisation culture: There exists different type of organisation culture
which area adopted by entity in order to carry out the functioning suitably. Explanation is listed
down below:

Power culture: Under this culture few top-level managers have the authority to leverage
the advantage of decision-making process. The role of power holder is to significantly
acknowledge the situation of external market and accordingly come up with desirable plan which
favourably influence the role of individual and team member. Application of such authority can
assist Apple company as business participate in turbulent environment so this method helps to
effectively influence the performance of workforce and overcome competitive environment
within short span of time.
Task culture: Within task culture groups are formulate according to the specialisation
and capability of employees in order to perform the particular project and task successfully
(Elstad, Christophersen and Turmo, 2012). Application of this method in Apple company can
influence the performance of individual and team member as they remain dedicated to bring
transition. This creates the synergic environment where competition amongst the inclusive
workforce gets replaced by coordination and cooperation in order to come up with innovation.
Role culture: Based on hierarchical structure the roles and responsibility are equally
allocation to different individual and team member who further discuss the situation with their
assigned supervisor. It comprises of long chain of command which at-times delays decision
making process. Proper defining of roles and rules can assist both individual and team member to
incorporate their task successfully.
Person culture: According to person culture, employees give more priority to their
personal objective rather than organisational goals. This somewhere may lead to the conflict
amongst the interest of different stakeholders. To deal with this situation the supervisor of Apple
company can associate individual incentives or remuneration plan with their target. This
maintains the balance as both individual and team member will remain encouraged to match up
with the standard performance.
Therefore, amongst different culture it is desirable for Apple company to adopt task
culture where each and every employee gets opportunity to put their viewpoint forward. It assists
individual to generate the creative thinking ability and gain competitive advantage over others.
Politics: Workplace politics can arise due to the human interaction leading to allocation
of different power and responsibility. It can either leads to the favourable or unfavourable
outcome affect the operations and objective of an organisation (Kellison and Mondello, 2012). In