Influence of Organisational Culture, Politics, Power, and Motivation on Behaviour and Performance

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
LO1..................................................................................................................................................5
P 1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance. ........................................................................................................5
M 1 Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour and performance.........................................................................6
LO2..................................................................................................................................................7
P 2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals.........................................................................................7
M 2 Critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective
application of behavioural motivational theories, concepts and models.....................................9
D1 Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that
enables teams and organisations to succeed providing justified recommendations..................10
LO3................................................................................................................................................10
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...........................10
M3 Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the development of
dynamic cooperation..................................................................................................................12
LO4................................................................................................................................................13
P 4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and a given business situation. .....................................................................................13
D 2 Critically analyse and evaluate the relevance of team development theories in context of
organisational behaviour concepts and philosophies that influence behaviour in the work place
....................................................................................................................................................15
M4 Explore and evaluate how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence
behaviour in both a positive and negative way..........................................................................15

CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour refers to the attitude of human in a company i.e. it is the way
how people interact within groups. It has been determined that, it is important for organisations
to understand and learn about behaviours of employees as it provides in-depth understanding of
people’s behaviour as they react & response in a particular situation. Therefore, OB assists to
know the difficult nature of human beings by finding causes & effects of that behaviour.
This report of organisational behaviour about A W Holding Company limited, which is
the Mechanical or industrial engineering based company, and LLC & Vocational rehabilitation
agency contacts in Fort Wayne, United States & across the world. The company recognises new
contacts and convert views to customers with strategic targeting, informed sales discussions, and
improved sales and marketing output. The following report will cover, influence of
organisational culture, power and politics on the behaviour of others. Further, it will evaluate
theories of motivational & its techniques that enable effective achievements of goals in the
company. Apart from this it will cover about what makes an effective team as opposed to an
ineffective team. Lastly, it will apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour.

LO1
P 1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Power can be described as an ability that an employee has to affect the behaviour of
organisation, so that the company does something that enables to achieve goals. Organizational
Politics can be defined as the process of bargaining and conciliation that is utilised to conquer
conflicts and differences of opinion. Further, organizational Conflicts are unavoidable and it is a
result of communication between the individuals and groups in the firm. Conflicts occur because
of individuals or groups interests. Moreover, power can be used in both ways i.e. employee can
use it in a useful way or can misuse also, for example; if there is personal fight between manager
& worker so that employee can misuse the power. In addition, if there are good relations between
manager and subordinates then power can be use in the right ways (Burrell and Morgan, 2017).
Power, politics and conflict these three concepts are rarely considered to be the most
unnecessary part of the organizational culture, but in certainty they are the most real appreciated
and common in a company. Further, it has been observed that they essentially affect the
behaviours of individuals and groups and are considered to have high significance in the
organizational decision making. Moreover, there are many ways to explain the function of power
Illustration 1: Political Behaviour
(Source: Culture of Power and Politics in Organisation, 2016)

and politics in organizational culture & exploring the organizational. Firms have goals and there
should be a combined understanding within the organization in proper ways to attain these goals.
On the other hand, the conflicts are built within the organizations and the base of these conflicts
are more frequently the lack of trust and liberty of view in the company. Difference is the reality
and it should be accepted as it can be in the form of employee’s interests, goals and ambitions,
also the combinations of these interests source a leadership. It has been determined that, conflicts
are obvious and common that occur naturally which cannot be decline.
In the AW Holding company which is consists of both power and politics, is considered
as a large scope, determined the expansion, constancy & repeated success of the company, as
power and politics are associated with management & leadership in organization. Authority and
politics in the firm can either affect the disgrace to the achievement of the company. Moreover,
without power and politics it could be rather hard for the organizations to manage each and every
thing which they are doing within the company (Cameron and Green, 2015).
Influence and power are so closely related with each other that sometimes it is tough to
apart them. Power can be determine as authority influence other people at the company. For
example, the manager of the organisation may strongly influence the attitude of another
employee, hence, power relationships are considered as the medium within which business is
conducted. Positive power in the company includes motivating efficiency means providing
employees power to make decisions. Furthermore, AW Holding company's culture has a
different influence on different employees.
M 1 Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour and performance.
A huge role is played by power, politics and culture in an organisation. From regulating
how decisions are made to how workers communicate with one another. In any business big or
small the influence of power relies on whether employees use it positively or wrongly. Also,
politics may directly affect who has the authority & determine whether the entire culture of the
place of work encourages productivity. Positive power in AW Holding consist of encouraging
productivity, whereas negative power occurs when company’s leaders do not respect their team
and threaten them with job loss. Apart from this, members who learn to find the way the politics
of an organisation are more effective than those who are left out in circle is known as positive