Organisational Behaviour

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Determine the affect of Culture, politics & power on behaviour of both individuals and
Teams. ...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
How to influence Individuals & Teams to attain a goal.........................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
Team Effectiveness................................................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
Concepts & philosophies of Organisational behaviour along with a given situation...........12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is referred as an interface that takes place among group and
individuals prevailing at workplace. It is used for analysing of performance of both individuals &
group members working in an organisation. It involves factors such as performance, job
structure, motivation, communication, leadership and so on. This study mainly emphasises on
building positive environment within the premises so that company can gain higher opportunities
in an effective manner. In the present report, Primark is chosen as a base company. It is a fast
fashion retailer which was founded by Arthur Ryan in year 1969 (Balwant, 2018). Primark head
office is located at Dublin, Ireland. The company offer product such as clothing, housewares and
cosmetics. In the current report, the effect of culture, politics & power on behaviour is discussed
with relation to company. The report covers motivational theories that is content as well as
process theory. In addition to this, a differentiation between effective and ineffective team and
various models for the development of team are going to be included. At last, it covers various
philosophies as well as concepts of organisational behaviour.
TASK 1
Determine the effect of Culture, politics & power on behaviour of both individuals and Teams.
The study of behaviour of individuals as well as team members prevailing at the
workplace is termed as Organisational behaviour. The main motive is to gain an understanding
about behaviour and performance of employees. This will assist companies to know the
requirement of employees and then fulfilling it. Along with this, it helps an organisation to retain
all the staff members for longer time frame and save down the cost of recruiting new employees.
The management has analysed that company is doing well in the marketplace as compared to its
competitors but as soon as other companies get recovered from the recession, Primark will have
to survive in the tough competition. In order to maintain the same consistency, it has been
realised that culture, politics and power play great role in this. Hence, top authorities are going to
understand the same and make adjustments in existing policies and plans for achieveing
favourable results (Jacobs and Manzi, 2019). An individual or team performance is affected by
power, culture & politics of an organisation which are mentioned below:
Culture: It involves beliefs, norms, values, traditions of an individual that effect on their
behaviour as well as performance. The culture of an organisation affects positively and

negatively on the behaviour of team members and individuals. By the assistance of positive
culture, an organisation has the opportunity to motivate its employees and raise the performance
level of company. Some of the types of culture which exist in an organisation, have been
discussed below:
Person Culture: This culture is all about the employees wherein the staff gives more
importance to itself than its organisation. The main focus and concerned of workforce is for their
own goals rather than the entity. Prime motive of personnel is to earn money which often leads
them to suffer. With the existence of this culture, the behaviour of individuals become negative
towards the organisation. This in turn affects the profitability of the corporate as employees
devote most of their time achieving their own self goals. This makes them lose the zeal to
accomplish organisational targets (James, 2017).
Role Culture: Herein, the roles & responsibilities of employees is clearly assigned to
them that helps companies to implement business activities in an effective manner. An
organisation has high control on the activities if this culture is being followed. Furthermore,
individuals get some power depending on the position they hold. This states authority within
which the each person is allowed to act. This can reduce conflict with the allocation of work as
roles are already assigned to every personnel. But, there can be situation of slow decision-
making as well as the risks factor is considerably low as compared to other culture.
Primark follows role culture where the roles for each employee is decided on the basis of
their skills and capabilities so as to accomplish individual as well as organisational goals.
Power: It is basically the ability of an Individual to influence all the staff members
prevailing at workplace. With reference to Primark, the power of taking decision is in the hands
of Top level management of company. There are various forms of power which is discussed
below:
Reward Power: This power is related with the rewarding employees for their good
performance. It is the way to keep the staff follow instructions for achieving goals and
objectives. By the assistance of this power, an organisation can motivate and influence its
workforce in a positive manner. The company gives appreciation or monetary benefits to
employees as per their performance (Knights and Willmott, 2016). This helps them to boost
morale of all staff as well as team members that leads to increase in productivity and efficiency
of employees.