Impact of Power, Politics, Culture, and Motivation on Organizational Behavior

Organisational
Behaviour

Contents
Part 1.....................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analysis of how organisation’s power, politics and culture impact on behaviour and
performance of teams and individual...............................................................................................3
M1 Critical analysis of how power, politics & culture influence on team and individual
performance and behaviour.............................................................................................................5
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Content and process theories of motivation along with motivational techniques that enable
attainment of organisational objectives...........................................................................................5
M2 Critical evaluation of how to influence behaviour of others by motivational theories and
concept as well.................................................................................................................................7
D1 Critical evaluation of relationship among power, politics, culture and motivation that help
company to gain success..................................................................................................................8
PART 2..................................................................................................................................................8
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P3 Effective and Ineffective teams..................................................................................................8
M3 Analysis of suitable team and group development theories in order to support dynamic
cooperation.......................................................................................................................................8
TASK 4.................................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisation behaviour...............................................................9
M4 Evaluation of how concepts as well as philosophies of organisational Behaviour influence
behaviour in negative and positive way.........................................................................................10
D2 Critically evaluate relevance of team development theories in relation to concepts and
philosophies of Organisational behaviour that impact behaviour at workplace............................10
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is termed as a procedure that examines behaviour of teams as well
as individuals prevailing within a company. Along with this, it is the study for gaining insight about
behaviour and performance of employees in an effective manner. It consist of both internal as well
as external factors that has impact on productivity and performance level of a business entity
(Balwant, 2018). For the present report, Sainsbury’s is taken into consideration. It is a multinational
supermarket and retailing company that is located in United Kingdom. The company was
established in year 1869 and at present it has presence in more than 15 countries. Sainsbury’s has
around 1500 shops that is managed and operated by around 1,50,000 skilled and effective staff
members. The report involves the influence of power, culture and politics on attitude and behaviour
of employees and teams as well. Along with this, motivational theories were discussed that help in
attaining organisational objective. Furthermore, effective and ineffective teams along with team
development theories were explained. In the last, concepts and philosophies of organisational
behaviour is elaborated in context to respective organisation.
Part 1
TASK 1
P1 Analysis of how organisation’s power, politics and culture impact on behaviour and performance
of teams and individual
It is analysed that organisational behaviour directly impact on the performance as well as
productivity of an organisation. In addition to this, there are various factors that impact on
behaviour and performance of teams as well as individuals and these are culture, politics and power
as well. This factors along with their impact is given below:
Power
It is defined as a capability of an individual to perform as well as manage activities and
assigning task in an effective manner. It is determined that in every organisation the power is
manage and control by the higher authorities which is directors, managers and so on. As per the
view point of French and Raven, power is mainly of five types, which are as follows:
Reward power- In this type of power, the top level authorities have the right to provide
rewards, appreciation, recognition to the staff members as per their performance level. In context to
Sainsbury’s, its higher authorities give appreciation to staff members according to the skills as well
as capabilities. This help company to develop a positive working environment that has positive
influence on productivity and profitability of the organisation.

Coercive power- Herein, managers force employees or subordinates to follow all the
instruction as well rules assigned to them in an appropriate manner (Chou, 2019). In relation to
Sainsbury’s, adoption of such type of power create a negative mind set of staff members and reduce
the efficiency and productivity of company.
Legitimate power- In this power, the authority of taking decision is in the hands of few
people such as owners, CEO, managers and so on. They decide how to delegate the responsibility
and to whom they are required to assign. With reference to Sainsbury’s, such type of power develop
confusion and creates issue in the mind set of employees that impact on the performance in a
negative manner.
Expert Power- Herein, the power of taking decision is in control of experts associated with
the specific field. It enhance the performance and morale of staff members of Sainsbury’s. Along
with this, it develop positive mind-set as they are working with experts which in turn enhance skills
and profit of company.
From the above discussion, it is determine that one of the most feasible as well as
appropriate form of power that assist in motivating staff members is Reward Power. In addition to
this, this develop the positive mind set of staff members due to which they work with full potential
to attain organisational objectives within given time period.
Politics
It is the process which arise between the people when they interact and communicate to
other people prevailing in the company. It is analysed that politics of two types that is negative and
positive politics. If it is talking about Sainsbury’s, occurrence of negative politics create issues
among staff members and also decline the level of trust of employees towards the company (Lee,
Nie and Bai, 2020). In addition to this, it also arise competition in employees in order to perform
better than other and sometimes staff members take issues personally that directly impact on
performance of respective organisation in a negative manner. It is significant for company to ensure
that positive politics take place in organisation as it has positive influence on productivity and
profitability of company due to which objectives are attained on time period.
Culture
It is defined as values, norms, opinion, beliefs, ideologies and so on of an organisation. It is
determine that culture has both positive and negative impact on performance and employees as
well. It is significant for an organisation to emphasis on developing positive working culture so that
employees feel satisfied and valued at workplace. According to Hnady’s typology, culture is mainly
of four types that is given below:
Task culture: According to this form of culture, the task is divide in staff members with an
aim to complete it in a timely and effective manner. Adoption of such type of culture by Sainsbury’s