Influence of Organizational Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behavior and Performance

Organizationa
l Behavior

Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team behaviour and
performance.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effective
achievement of goals in an organisational context.............................................................................5
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P3 what makes an effective team, as opposed to an ineffective team................................................8
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................10
P4 Concepts and philosophies of OB...............................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior is set of numerous activities that aid management team of
business firm in understanding personnel behavior in more effective manner (Ullah and et.al.,
2017). In addition to this, through organizational behavior organization can improve
efficiency of staff through predicting as well as controlling working of human resource for
accomplishing organizational goal. Moreover, it is concerned with understanding, controlling
and also deciding behavior of organizational employees.
Respective report will conduct detail discussion on how company’s productivity as
well as performance will get influenced through power, politics and culture. In addition to
this, further discussion involves different techniques and theories related to motivation. That
will aid management team of business firm in motivating and influencing employees so they
will be able to perform within effective manner. In addition to this, both effective and
ineffective team along with their role while cooperating with other staff in organisation will
also discussed. In end section of this report, organisational behavioural concepts and
philosophies will discussed as result all these will assist manager in dealing with situations
which happen within company.
Introduction of company
The present organisation is based on Waitrose & partners which is British
supermarket chain offering food products to people. Its headquarter is located at Bracknell,
England as well as they have approx. 353 stores within United Kingdom. Furthermore,
company is exporting their products in around 52 nations.
TASK 1
P1 Organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team behaviour
and performance
Organisational behaviour is the study which simply means that how individual within
an business firm as well as aim of this is to analyse as well as understand behaviour of
employees actually. Thus, manager of company will be able to motivate or give them
direction as per company requirement (Illien, Golestanian and Sen, 2017). Waitrose &
Partners is part of retail industry which supply their goods and services within United

Kingdom. It is important for company to focus on organisational culture, power and politics
because it has wide impact on behaviour of individual as well as team. Explanation are as
follows :-
Culture: Combination of numerous assumptions, beliefs as well as values of anbusiness
firmthat influence behaviour of individual or team. Moreover,it can impact on performance of
organisation in both manner positive and negative. In context to Waitrose & Partners, focus
of human resource manager is to build a positive as well as secure working culture within
company. It will result in working of company within more effective manner. With the
assistance of positive working environment there will be several positive impact on company
such as positive working environment, employees turnover ratio reduces as well as motivate
them to perform within effective way. There are numerous type of culture that effects on
performance of individual and team some are as mention below :- Role culture:Within this type of culture every personnel is clear about their roles and
responsibilities that will help them in performing their work within more effective
way (De Braaf and et.al., 2017). In context to Waitrose & Partners HR manager
assign task to their employees as per their skills and capabilities.
 Person culture: It is type of culture which focus on staff of company. HR manager of
Waitrose & Partners conduct training and development session on timely basis that
will help in developing skills, knowledge and capabilities of staff. Continuous
development will result in upgrading knowledge and capabilities which result in
improving productivity and efficiency of staff in workplace.
Hofstede's Cultural dimensions theory – This use utilises for better understanding of
differences within culture across countries and to separate the manner that business will done
across distinct cultures (Connolly and Dolan, 2017). Six categories of respective model are as
follows :-
 Power Distance Index – It is related to the extent in that inequality as well as power
are tolerated in this dimension, inequality and power are viewed by the viewpoint of
the followers i.e., the lower level.
 Collectivism vs. Individualism – It is the degree to which societies are integrated in
groups and their perceived obligation as well as dependence on team.
 Uncertainty Avoidance Index – As per this dimension the extent are considers as
uncertainty as well as ambiguity are tolerated (Bucic, Ngo and Sinha, 2017). here,