Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Organizational Behavior

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organisational context.......................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context
and given business situation........................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour defines as a study of human behaviour in the organisational
setting. It reflects an interface between the behaviour of an individual person and an
organisation. It is an essential area which is used to represent a human behaviour in workplace
and it also determine the performance, communication, leadership, job structure and also many
other factors. This term helps a business to study human behaviour according to several situation
and condition (Robbins and Judge, 2019). To complete this project report, Asda store ltd is to be
undertaken. It is a British largest supermarket organisation that was founded in 1949. Asda deals
in variety of products like food, clothing, home ware and many more. This study includes an
explanation of relationship between power, culture politics and motivation. Further it also
includes the importance of examine employee’s behaviour by using several motivational
theories. It helps in accomplishing a goals for long term sustainability of a company.
TASK 1
Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance
Organisation behaviour refer to a study of measuring and evaluating employee’s
behaviour at the time of working within workplace. It includes several factors which affects
functions of individual and these are power, politics and culture. Power is reflected as a
leadership power that is hold by a leader of an organisation for managing workers (Borkowski
and Meese, 2020). Culture of a business reflects as beliefs, attitude, norms that are followed by
an organisation. In an enterprise politics refers to a part of workplace that occurs because of
negative workers who are inactive and cannot perform their task effectively. Asda is a
supermarket store in UK and a manager of company focus on examine the power, culture and
politics and their impact on team an individual that are to be demonstrate below:
Culture
It refers to that aspect in which an organisation functions. Culture within organisation
affect the working of company in positive and negative manner. An individual performance of
employees is based on culture followed by an enterprise. In terms of Asda, there are several
types of culture that are presented below:
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 Power culture– In this culture several rules and regulations are to be reflected within an
organisation (Gagné, 2018). These rules and regulations are to be formulated for
employees so that they perform their task effectively. In terms of Asda, if manager adopts
this power quick decisions are to be taken for attaining the goals that will creates strong
culture.
 Task Culture- It refers to that culture in which employees are getting the specific task as
per their ability so that business operations run smoothly. Task is very essential that helps
Asda to get effective results in attaining operations.
 Person culture– In terms of this culture, people who are working in an organisation are
unique and the way of completing the assignment related to business operation is distinct
from one another.
 Role culture – In this culture few rules and guidelines are to be included. In this manager
of Asda are highly focus on controlling every individual so that employees understand
their role and responsibilities appropriately. These type of business enterprise are known
as bureaucratic.
To reflect the positive culture at workplace it is very essential to manage and control
operations of an organisation effectively. In terms of Asda, manager adopts the task culture so
that operations can be done smoothly because every individual perform their assigned task
appropriately. Due to this targets are to be achieved on time.
Politics
In an organisation guff activities are to be performed by non-effective employees of a
firm. Workers who cannot work effectively but attain the goals by doing misbehave are creating
negative environment (Tasselli, Kilduff and Landis, 2018). These employees capture the
attention of other workers and distract their overall working. Politics within organisation based
on several aspects of individuals like rocks, woods, high grounds etc. In this weeds related to
informal network, High grounds related to an integration of authorities by influence personally.
Rocks consist of an individual interaction between the person and woods offers the guideline
related to routines which are related to values and hidden assumptions. Due to politics employees
of Asda are affected and some of aspects are shown below:
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