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

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................4
P1 Impact of organization culture, politics and power on individual as well as team behavior and
performance.............................................................................................................................................4
P 2 Contribution of content and process theories of motivation..............................................................6
P3 What makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team......................................................7
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior within enterprise...........................................9
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior can be simply defined as a study of the method in which a
person communicates or interact with other one in an organization having the intention of
achieving some goals and objectives (Salin and Hoel, 2011). Commonly, it represents the smooth
way in which a firm is going to run its business by taking care of micro as well as macro factors
and its impacts. In addition to this, the performance of venture is also affected by culture, power
and politics at greater extent. Thus, it can be said that organizational behavior is the overview of
both workers as well as company itself. The report is based on the culture and politics of A
David & Co Limited which is a small and medium sized company in United Kingdom. It offers
good quality of food and beverages to their customers and are earning an income of around
£10M to £20M per annum. In this report, the impact of organizational culture, power and politics
has been described in detail. In addition to this, various motivational theories such as process and
content theories has also been explained so that the cited firm can use this and improve the level
of motivation in their employees in order to increase their overall performance.
P1 Impact of organization culture, politics and power on individual as well as team behavior and
performance
Organizational culture is nothing but a set of experiences, expectations, philosophy as
well as values that provide guidance to the staff members’ behavior. And it can be expressed in
the internal working, self-image, interactions with the outer world and the future expectations of
workers. Corporation can elevate their enactment by following and enforcing these values which
are discovered or founded on the respect and interpretations (Lumley, Tladinyane and Ferreira,
2011). The culture of organization also highlights values, symbols, visions, rules, legislations,
language, beliefs, habits and assumptions of a company. It also impacts greatly on the
performance level of an individual as well as group and influences community on a larger extent.
The influence of culture can be clearly understood by following points :
 Behavior of each and every person working in the venture is largely affected by the rules
and regulations of the management as it provides shapes to their working capabilities in
various manner. For instance, if some personnel are following the policies of A David &
Co Limited in a given way then it spontaneously forced them towards attaining additional
income as well as prevent an individual from any kind of punishment and compensations.

 Secondly, culture impacts on the presentation or working of employees by inspiring them
towards their professional as well as personalized goals without abusing the policies of
venture.
 Moreover, it also polishes the skills and qualities present in every worker within
organization by providing them good training and development programs so that they do
not face any type of problems while working in company (Odetunde, 2013).
 Culture also promotes them towards maintaining politeness and decency so that any
disputes will not arise among employees and employers and harmony would remain
maintained in working environment.
 It also maintains healthy relations between supervisors and associates making clear their
all complaints which is proved to be very advantageous for eth whole association.
 It aids in creating a positive atmosphere which seek the attention of large number of
consumers as well as employees.
 Intimacy and togetherness is the key of achieving success for A David & Co Limited as it
assists in acquiring their aims and objectives as fast as possible.
In addition to this, culture is classified into some elements which are :
 Power culture : In this type of culture, power is segmented in the hand of few people
who control whole work force.
 Task culture : Here specific task is allocated to personnel as per their skills and
qualifications.
 Role culture : This culture state that management give different roles to persons so that
the goal and targets of venture can achieved in a given time frame.
 Person culture : In this type of culture, Person understand itself superior than
organization and do not give importance to their work and go to work place only for
earning revenue.
Coming towards organization politics, it is a term that is referred as an unofficial,
unceremonious and sometime it acts as an obstacle for whole corporation as it generates
misperception between employees that give a negative impact on work of every staff member of
firm. Power and politics plays a very important role in the A David & Co Limited because all of
the decisions taken by governing bodies and the team members of management influence on the
performance of whole workforce and its behaviors (Kitchin, 2017). Therefore, it can be said that
these two terms are interconnected with one another due to their good and bad affects. Generally,
it has been recognized that politics and power are affecting in negatively or positively manner
due to their roles and duties towards overall organization. The impact of power and politics can
be better understood by following points :
Positive affects :
 Strict rules and norms build equality among the staff members and no one will be
discriminated on the basis of age, sex, color, race, caste, religions, etc. For instance, if