Impact of Organizational Culture, Politics, and Power on Behavior and Performance

Organisation Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analysis define that how culture of organisation, politics, power impact behaviour and
performance of individual team...................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2 Evaluating the content and various motivation theories and motivational techniques that
ensures accomplishment of goals in the organisation..................................................................3
P3 Explanation of reasons that makes effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...........5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P4 Application of different concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour in the
organisation..................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour can be defined as concern of understanding, predicting and
controlling human behaviour within organisation. The managers of company study and apply
knowledge for people as individuals and groups by whom actions in organisation are performed.
Such analysis explains complex human factors in organisation and identifies cause and effect
relationship in their behaviours (Ahmad and Zafar, 2018). The company selected for this project
report is Farmfoods operates end-to-end in United Kingdom with three hundred stores. The
company mainly deals in frozen foods and has be running as supermarket chain. In recent times
it has developed huge range of grocery items that is mix of branded and its own brand products.
The topic focused in this report includes analysis of influence of some factors on the behaviour
of people in organisation. It has the evaluation of motivating individuals and teams for achieving
goals. In addition to this understanding of cooperation effectiveness effects others in company
and some concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour is also concerned.
TASK 1
P1 Analysis define that how culture of organisation, politics, power impact behaviour and
performance of individual team.
Culture means different characteristics and knowledge of group of people, broadly
segmented by religion, belief, caste, social behaviour, taste and music have believe in. But the
concept of organisation's culture has different viewpoints. Organisational culture is defined as
values, belief, behaviours and various ways of interaction that contribute to unique social and
psychological working environment. (Al-Syaidh, 2016). For classification of different culture in
organisation Handy's model can be applied. Charles Handy developed a leading authority for
organisational culture which defines four different kinds of culture which are explained as
follows:
Power culture- Farmfoods company can have power culture in which power would be
held by few individuals who can easily influence spreads throughout the company. There are few
rules and regulations in such cultured organisations. With this culture employees are generally
judged by their achievements rather than what process they follow to do their tasks.
Role culture- With the help of such culture, Farmfoods can have control over people with
knowledge about the tasks and activities they are responsible for. Such culture employees may
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have clear delegated authorities as the structure of company would be highly defined. The power
in role culture would derive person’s position in the work process and organisation.
Task culture- If Farmfoods follows task culture, then the manager has to form teams in
company for addressing specific problems or progress projects would be handled by specific
teams. The power in such kind of culture may derive expertise as long as requirements of
expertise (Boufounou and Avd, 2016). Apart from this team can develop its own style of doing
the tasks which can make their work process easy and companies goals can be achieved
effectively.
Person culture- If this culture is implemented by Farmfoods, the individuals can see
themselves as unique and have feeling of being superior in the company. People culture simply
exists so the employees in company make them work with full knowledge and effectiveness. The
company can really have collection of individuals who can work for goals and objectives of
company.
However Farmfoods can use the combination of Role culture and Task culture so that the
people in company can have clarity of their work and they have proper recognition in company.
But the people in company can be affected with the behaviours in workplace, as there are many
people who fall in from different work cultures. This is why managers of company needs to
ensure that its employees have knowledge of the cultural differences in workplace so the
business goals are not affected.
Apart from organisational culture, organisational behaviour is influenced by the politics
and power. This can be discussed as follows:
Influence of politics- Organisational politics can be referred as self-interest and the goals
of people in organisation which have no concern about its impact on the goals and objectives of
company (Clark, Robertson and Young, 2019). It is basically related to self- serving behaviour of
people and interactions which includes authority and power. The influential tactics and activities
which are taken to retain personal control within workplace. In many cases, employees use
organisational politics as weapon for misusing their powers and gaining extreme popularity or
mainly for tarnishing image of others in company.
Influence of power- The viewpoint of power based on organisational concept can be
defined as the capacity of person which influences the behaviour of another person which makes
them act accordingly. So, power exists as ability of influencing people with dependent
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