Influence of Organisational Culture, Power, and Politics on Behaviour and Performance

Organisational Behaviour

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analysing influence of an organisation’s culture, politics and power on individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1
M1 Critically analysing influence of culture, power and politics on individual and team
performance and behaviour.........................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques.............................4
M2 Critically evaluating the ways of influencing behaviour through application of
motivational theories and concepts..............................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Comparison between effective team and an ineffective team................................................7
M3 Analysing team and group development theories.................................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour........................................................9
M4 Evaluating influence of concepts and philosophies on employee’s behaviour...................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the concept which revolves around few beliefs, cultures and
perceptions of people in an organisation. This concept is a field of study which helps in
analysing the perception of workforce so that issues faced by them can be resolved. The main
aim of this report is to develop an understanding about the influence of culture, politics and
power on the behaviour of people (Balmer and Burghausen, 2015). In order to fulfil this, aim the
organisation which is selected this report is Sainsbury’s. This organisation is a retail organisation
which is one of the largest supermarket chain of United Kingdom. This company deals in home
appliances, groceries etc. and is operating in various parts of the World. This company was
established in the year of 1869 and has headquarters in London, United Kingdom. This company
is currently facing the issue of high floor staff turnover.
In this report various models are used to analyse the power, culture and politics in the
selected company. Along with this, content and process theories of motivation are also analysed
with few motivational techniques. A comparison analysis is done between effective and
ineffective team and lastly, concepts of organisation behaviour are assessed.
TASK 1
P1 Analysing influence of an organisation’s culture, politics and power on individual and team
behaviour and performance
Organisation culture
This concept is a combination of various beliefs and perceptions of employees of an
organisation. These beliefs are result of cultures which an organisation follows in their
management. Organisation culture includes dress code, a specific way of greetings, authorisation
etc. This culture is either inherited or set by the organisation which requires to be followed by
every individual. These perceived values and beliefs highly impact performance of the
workforce. The organisation culture of Sainsbury’s can be analysed using Handy’s model. This
model is a technique pinned by Charles Handy who has classified these cultures into four broad
categories which are based on certain assumptions which helps to evaluate difference between all
these cultures (Bester, Stander and Van Zyl, 2015). These categories of cultures are analysed
below:
1