Organizational Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, and Motivation

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART A...........................................................................................................................................3
Analysing the culture, politics and power of the influencing the individual and team behaviour
of the employees.........................................................................................................................3
Evaluation of how content and process theories motivate and assist in achieving the goals of
the business.................................................................................................................................5
PART B............................................................................................................................................6
Effective team opposed to ineffective team................................................................................6
Application of the concept and philosophies of organizational behaviour.................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour has been defined as the study of the group and individual
performance and the activities taking place within the organisation. The reason underlying this
factors that for the success of the business it is very essential that the organisation studies the
behaviour of the human and how they are working within the company. The present study is
based on marks and Spencer which is a British multinational retailer headquartered in London.
The company was founded in the year 1884 by Michael marks and Thomas Spencer. The current
study will outline theme fat how culture politics and power influences the individual and the
team behaviour. In addition to this the different content and process theories of motivation will
be evaluated in attaining the goals of the organisation. Moreover the presence is will outline the
difference between effective and ineffective team full stop in the end the concept and
philosophies of organisational behaviour within the organisation will be analysed.
PART A
Analysing the culture, politics and power of the influencing the individual and team behaviour of
the employees
Culture- Success of the most essential aspect is to manage and maintain a good culture.
Culture refers to as the beliefs and values underline the contribution of employees within the
environment of the organisation. It is very essential that marks and Spencer must maintain a
good culture within the company so that employees a motivated to work in proper and effective
manner. for the effective management of the culture the use of Handy's culture model is very
helpful for business. This is a model which outlines the four different types of culture can be
practiced within the company. The different types of culture proposed by the handy culture
model are power, role, task and person (Buchanan and Huczynski, 2019).
 Power- the power is a type of culture where in the major emphasis is given on centralised
power. The reason underlying this fact is that this culture believes that if the decision
making power are in hands of few people then the decisions taken are more effective and
efficient. this type of culture infra sizes and much more on our centralisation rather than
decentralisation.

 Role- Under the role culture all the roles and responsibilities are delegated to the
employees on the basis of their specialisation or the field of education (Kondalkar, 2020).
The reason underlying the role culture is that if the person has been allotted the work in
which they are good then this will result in effective results of the work. This culture
emphasizes majorly on providing the work to the employees in accordance with their
capabilities and educational qualifications.
 Task- Under the task culture major emphasis is being provided on forming team in order
to achieve the targets or solve the problem within the business. Here the culture of the
company focuses on framing teams in order to effectively work in proper manner. This is
pertaining to the fact that in case the team work is being imprecise than this motivates the
person in order to contribute their hundred percent to achieve the objectives of the
business.
 Person- under the personal culture the major emphasis is on the people or the employees
working within the company. The reason underlying this fact is that here under this type
of culture people feel that they are the only one because of which the company is
working. Hence they have the feeling that they are superior to the other people working
within the company.
Hence it is advisable two marks and Spencer that they must focus on either the task culture or the
role culture. The reason underlying this fact is that within the task culture the major emphasis
will be read on framing team and this will result in effective attainment of the objectives. On the
other hand in case marks and Spencer goes for roll culture then also it will result in better and
effective working of the company. The reason underlying these factors that when the task will be
delegated on the basis of specialisation of the employees then this will result in effective
completion of the work.
Power- Power is being defined as the amount of decision making power relating to the
success of the business. The running of the business the decision making powers are being
provided in the hands of some people so that they can effectively take decisions for the effective
working of the company (Wilson, 2017). Hence it is very essential that the power is been
distributed in equal and adequate manner so that there is no discrimination within the decision
making people. For managing the power marks and Spencer can undertake the use of French and
Raven model of power.