Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Power, Politics, and Motivation

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Part 1................................................................................................................................................3
Critical analysis of Culture, Power, and Politics on performance:-.............................................3
Motivation and Motivational theories in Organizational :-.........................................................5
Relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation....................................................7
PART 2............................................................................................................................................7
Importance of team working within hays travel..........................................................................7
Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team. ......................................................................9
Team development theory..........................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is the study of performance of the individual or the group in an
organization. The study includes the performance, job, communication, leadership, motivation
etc. it also includes the overall behaviour of the employees of the company like discipline etc.
The main aim of this study is to identify the skills and capabilities of the employees for the
development.
Hays travel is the travel agent chain. The headquarters of the hays travel are in UK. This
industry basically deals in the travelling and tours. The main function of Hays travel is to provide
the holiday packages to the customers.
This report contains the culture, power and politics in an organization, content and
process of the theories of the motivation, importance of the team, making an effective team and
team development models.
Part 1
Critical analysis of Culture, Power, and Politics on performance:-
Culture:- Culture is the process of knowledge and skills of group of people in showing their
culture, habits, arts etc. Organizational culture includes its expectations, philosophy, as well as
its values that also guide the member behaviour & expressed self-image, working, intersection
with world and future of expectation. Culture is based on the beliefs, customs, attitude and
unwritten rule which are developed throughout time and are considered as valid.
Handy's Model of culture:-
Power culture:- Power culture represent the organization's culture where power authority work
and everyone has to work on their commands, in this the power is held within particular
individual and their command influence throughout organization. Power culture help in the
performance of both individual and team as it is a fast decision-making process. Power culture
relies on a individual other than the comities and groups. It is being judged on the performance
and result and its tolerate on means.
Role culture:-Working in organization required regulation to work and improve performance
with guidelines. Role culture work with regulations in its culture and its highly controlled, Role
culture helps every employee in company that what they need to do in their work or role.
Working as an individual and working in team gets benefits by role culture as it elaborates them

what is their work in the company & It also helps in getting the work done in the organization
with better result and Hays works on roles.
Task culture:-Task culture in organization refer to the task which are allotted to team or
individual on basis of project and programme. Working in team or individual on a project
improve the performance as everyone is focused on particular task on other hand it can some
times create communication gap which can impact on performance negatively.
Personal culture:- personal culture represent the working and performance of an individual in an
team and by individual work in the organization. It summaries the culture of working on personal
level of an employee. In this the decision are on persona level and their effect are on the personal
performance of employees (Naranjo-Valencia, 2019).
Handy's Model of culture explain the importance of working culture and it makes easy
for people to understand the working situation and handle the situation in organization. Model
work as in individuals as culture improve the performance and its importance in the organization.
Culture on team work and group work needs Hays travels to focus more on role and task model
as it helps the hays in improvement in performance and better & efficient work (Driskill, 2018).
Power analysis:- Power culture refer to the leader in an organization who work with power and
show others employees the power and command and guidance toward the goal and objective of
the company.
French and Raven model:- French and raven model is published in 1959 and it is divided in 2
ways:-
Positional Power:-
Positional power include 3 powers:-
Reward power:- Reward power refer to the power a leader based on idea that providing rewards
can increase work efficiency of employees.
Coercive power:- -This is from a belief that person can punish for non-compliance. Individual
and teamwork both can get the negative performance by this and its not a good belief.
Legitimate Power:- It works as a leader have right to command and order the employees for
working. This shows that leader belief in their strategies and this can help the individual and
team work to their objectives and goals.
Personal Power:-