Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, and Motivation Theories

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................3
P1) Briefly explain organisation culture, politics, power, individual and team behaviour. . 3
M1) Critically analysed how culture, politics and power of an organisation affect team
behaviour and performances...................................................................................................6
P2) Explain various motivation theories and techniques which help to attain goal of
organisation............................................................................................................................6
M2) Critically examine the behaviours of individuals, motivational theories and models....8
D1 Discuss relationship between power, politics, culture & motivation which enable
organisational success............................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3)Effective and ineffective team .........................................................................................9
M 3 Examine team and group development theories to support development of dynamic
cooperation...........................................................................................................................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P4: Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and a given business situation..................................................................................10
M4: Examine how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence behaviour in both a
positive and negative way....................................................................................................11
D2 Analyse team development theories in OB which assist in impact organisational
behaviour .............................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is defined as detailed study of behaviour of individual within a
enterprise. In this competitive world, it is necessary to properly understand behaviour of every
individual so that decision making is done accordingly. Main aim of this report is to understand
the concept of organisational behaviour at workplace (Reeve, 2016). By analysis of human
behaviour, it become easy of organisation to carry out their work related activities in appropriate
manner. Sainsbury, a largest supermarket headquartered in U.K. The firm deals in variety of
products such as grocery items, consumable goods etc. It is located globally and many
competitors such as Amazon, Tesco, Walmart, etc. Also, company has subsidiaries such as
Sainsbury Bank, Argos, Habitat & many more.
TASK1
P1) Briefly explain organisation culture, politics, power, individual and team behaviour.
Organisational culture refer to which includes general believes, values, tradition and
religions in order to effectively implemented and helps to attain goal and objective of company.
Organisation employees followed culture in order to improve performance of company.
Sainsbury one of the leading company so they mangers effectively managed organisation culture
such as followed laws, rule, regulation and custom. There are four kinds of culture which affect
the organisation atmosphere so which are discuss below (Watson, 2017).
Role culture-: These kind of culture mostly organisation used in order to allocate roles to
each individual and accordingly perform their duty. They allocate roles on the basis of
competence & skill of there employees. In context of Sainsbury they adapting this type of
culture in order to each employees handle work and perform well (De Montalvo, 2017).
Task culture-: Task culture is process which organisation categorised into each task
between the employees and they employee's authority to perform a task in effective manner.
When teams members are performed specific task in order to power will flow accordingly. In
reference of organisation, they effectively delegate task to each individual because it helps to
formation og groups & teams and those individual have authority so responsible for
accountability along with enhancing productivity and improve performance level.
Person culture-: These culture which known as organisation utilise frequently in order to
when some person have power to take decision about the work and handle all the responsibility

so that top level management and superior. These culture has both positive and negative aspect
which affect the Sainsbury operation due to superior level authority and responsibility to
encouraged and motivated employees. It is negative impact also because employees get more
confident which increases bad performances (Kirwan, 2016).
Power culture-: Power culture refers to that power, authority and responsibility handle
by superior, manager and top level management. In relevance of company, they utilize in
effective manner because achieving target on daily basis. These culture have both impact
positive and negative such as positive impact are superiors delegate work equally so it leads to
enhancing skills and knowledge of employees. Due to negative impact in order to individual get
demotivated have less power they cannot take decisions.
Politics-: Politics refers to process which companies followed proper rules, regulation
and governance of organisation. It includes activities related decision taken by superiors and top
management. In context of Sainsbury, they considered both aspect such as positive and negative.
Positive aspect such as providing proper working environment, taking leaves easily and proper
flow of communication. It also negative impact like back beaching spreading rumours etc.
Organisation followed positive politics because increasing team spirit all members coordinated
with each other. Negative impact shows bad impact in order to decreasing performance level and
rises conflicts between team members. They are included various kind of powers which are
mentioned below.
Coercive-: These are the power which manger conduct in organisation because they
adapting strict policy and behaviour towards employees. Superiors posses such power only for
threaten to individual in order to perform effectively (Callaghan, 2016). It is also have positive
and negative aspect because Sainsbury mangers also utilise this power but they shows negative
impact such as decreasing performance of employees and create threat in the mind of
individuals.
Reward-: These is the second power which top management deliver reward on the basis
of performances. Reward considered as monetary and non-monetary terms which helps to get
motivated employees towards work. In context of Sainsbury, these approach utilize in
organisation and it shows positive impact in order to boost the morale and leads positive attitude.
It also bring organisational performance as well as motivated employees will leads to increasing
profitability.