Analyzing Organizational Culture, Power, and Politics Impact on Behavior and Performance

Organisational
Behaviour

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyse of organisation culture, power and politics that is impacting on behaviour and
performance of individual and teams.....................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2 Evaluation of process and content theory of motivation as well as motivational technique
that enable the achievement for accomplishing organisational goals....................................6
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3 Demonstrate an understanding about aspects that makes an effective team opposed to
ineffective team....................................................................................................................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P4 Philosophies, theory and concepts that are related with organisational behaviour.........12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is defined as a study of human behaviour of all individuals that
are engage in business operations and functions. The main function of organisational behaviour
is to generate better interface between organisation management and its workforce. This also
refers one of the major goal of organisation is to develop and implement better concepts among
all departments of business (Wong, Ormiston and Tetlock, 2011). Organisation behaviour is the
study of group and individual performance that are related with activities and action of business.
This report is composed from point view of John Lewis Partnership which is a British retail
organisation that operates organisational functions with engaging large number of workforce.
Moreover, this report highlights on analyse of organisation culture, power and politics that
impacts on performance of individual and team. Content and process theory of motivation which
leads company to accomplish organisational goals will be included in the report. In the last,
understanding of an effective team and concepts as well as philosophies related with OB and it’s
implementation are also focused in the upcoming report
TASK 1
P1 Analyse of organisation culture, power and politics that is impacting on behaviour and
performance of individual and teams
Organisation culture, politics and power influence an individual and team performance due
to which positive and negative both aspects are faced by management of John Lewis Partnership.
Some impact of power individual and team is mention as follow:
Impact of power on team and individual behaviour
Power demonstrates the authority that is provided by organisation to a particular
employee or team. This is used by manager for influencing the performance of an individual and
groups for performing their roles in an organised manner. Moreover, this also includes several
authority that provide rewards and appraisal to an employee in order to complete work for
betterment of respective organisation (Wan and Wan, 2016). Some theories that are implemented
by John Lewis partnership are mention as below:

 Coercive power- This refers to the power that is provided by an organisation to an
individual for managing its daily activities. From perspective of John Lewis partnership
it is implemented by management to enhance effectiveness of each individual.
 Reward power- This refers to the power which is assigned to an individual in order to
provide rewards, appraisal, training and promotion through monitoring performance and
efforts of employees. It is also used by management to provide rewards as per individual
performance.
 Legitimate power- It is the power that is gain by an individual according to the
experience and position in organisation. Along with this John Lewis Partnership provide
platform to employees for performing work easily in the organisation.
 Referent power- According to this power an individual is assigned for influencing the
behaviour of individuals that are engaged in organisation to complete work towards
desired goals (Vance, Siponen and Pahnila, 2012). John Lewis Partnership implements
the process of referent power for motivating individuals to complete their work in an
appropriate manner.
 Expert power- This power is assigned by the management for providing huge
knowledge to an individual within a particular field. John Lewis partnership is focused
to manage all activities which perform organisational work according to decide policy
and procedure in order to improve efficiency in a specific field.
Influence of politics on an individual and team
Politics behaviour determine and reflect the property of an individual in order to take
better decisions which mean to take decision for welfare of organisation. This is also used by
management for impacting decision as per current situation. Along with this there are different
factors are present in market that influence on behaviour of individual and team which is defined
as below:
 Decrease in productivity- This is monitored several times that politics generate
negativity in an organisation due to which organisational objective and goal are impacted
(Rowold, 2014). It also creates problems for John Lewis partnership to accomplish their
goal in decided time period.
 Spoil the ambience- Politics generates unbalanced environment in the organisation due
to which relationship and interaction between employees is impacted on large level. This