Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Organizational Behavior

Organisational
Behaviour

Introduction:
Organisation behaviour is a way to examine how people behave at the work place in a
group or in team work. In the other words, the organisation action is a set of management human
action providing knowing, anticipate and influence the employees behaviour at organisation. It
includes various areas such as improving employees performance, promoting new ideas,
increasing the job satisfaction of employees at the company. Their are different theories which
are followed in organisation to manage the human manpower in effective ways so that
companies mission and vision are achieve within time frame. In this contexts, Primark company
which operates at retailer industry in the UK market, offering clothes, Accessories, housewares
and beauty product to its customer at a price that are affordable for them. (Bahrami, Barati,
2016)This report will covers the organisation culture, policies and power which can influence
the behaviour of the employees. Further their will be discussion on the various theories and
concepts that motivates the employees to perform better in the team. Between impressive team
and unproductive team will be discuses later in the report.
LO1:
P1: Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviours of others in the
organisation
The organisation behaviours is a process of organising people of the company so that pre-
determine objectives can be accomplish effectively in the long period of time . Here member of
organisation are made to understand the mission of the company so that they work according to
the goals of the company. With the reference of Primark, organisation culture, power and politics
are interlinked in the company that influences the behaviour of its employees at the work.
The top -level management look after the employees are alert about the various policies of
organisation so that they perform in set procedures.(Blader, Patil and Packer, 2017)
Organisation culture: Under this, the people of organisation share their values, beliefs
and assumptions so that they know each other better which helps them to act in specific manner.
Every structure have various culture which symbolize the behavior of its members. It is a way
which shows how employees will behave in company and how they will respond to changes in
the activities. Handy's model is used by the Primark organisation which shows how employees
behaviour effective mission of the company.
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Power culture:Every organisation have some special people who holds the power to
make sound business decision-making in the management. These people further divides the roles
and responsibilities to its another member of a team so that project is accomplished on time and
in effective way. The HR manager of Primark, follow this culture so that proper hierarchy is
followed in the team. employees have to precede the what their superior tells them to as there are
nor free to express their point of view in the team.(Bolino, Hsiung, Harvey 2015)
Task culture: Under this culture, unit is formed to dissolve the critical issues in
the systematic manner so that task is completed without any interference. Here few number of
employees are grouped together who will perform activities so that objectives attained in the
long run. Teams are formed who have a similar skills and knowledge and work is assigned to
them accordingly. The manager of Primark make use this culture so that task is completed in
positive way.
Person culture: Here employees are more concerned about themselves instead of the
goals of organisation. They have a point of view that individual is important then their
organisation. The company who uses this culture have to negative impact on the execution of the
company as individual goals are achieved instead of organisation. The Impact of this culture in
the Primark is negative as companies goals are ignored.
Role culture: here this culture, employees are give different duty and obligation
according to their skills and knowledge. Here employees are more focus on giving their best in
the given task so that targets can be achieved in time. The HR manger of Primark make best use
of such culture as employees are more competent in performing the tasks and some power is
provided to them to complete the task.(Borkowski, 2016.)
According to above discussion, it is stated that organisation culture, power and policies
have powerfulness on the behaviour of employees of the Primark company. The most suitable
culture is task for the Primark as it bring the effective timing among the employees. This
provide positive environment at the workplace.
Organisation power: Under this ,power give a proper way to manager as well as to the
employees to complete the given task. The different level of power in the organisation
influences the behaviours the employees that affects the outcome of the activities. Some of the
power are discussed as follows:
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