Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behavior and Performance

Organizational Behavior

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1: Analyse how an organization’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team
behavior and performance.......................................................................................................................3
M1: Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organization to influence individual
and team member performance................................................................................................................6
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................6
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organizational context....................................................................6
M2: Critically evaluate influence of behavior through motivation theory and concept...........................8
D1: critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that enable team
and organization to succeed providing justified recommendations..........................................................9
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................9
P3 Demonstrate an understanding of what makes an effective team, as opposed to an ineffective team. 9
M3: Analyse group development theories for the development of an organisation...............................12
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................12
P4: Apply philosophies of organization behavior for the context of an organization.............................12
M4: Evaluate philosophies that help to influence the individual behaviour in both positive and negative
manner...................................................................................................................................................14
D2: Critically analyse team development theories to influence the behaviours of an individual...........14
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................14
REFRENCES...........................................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organization behavior is a core field of management which is responsible to investigate
or analyse the impact of different parties such as individual, team member and external factor on
the performance of entity. Application of desirable training and development helps in
strengthening the knowledge and skill of workforce. Along with that external changes needs to
be predetermined in order to promote desirable behavior for the sustainable functioning of entity.
Efforts are made to perceive internal and external environment in order to favorably influence
the behavior of individual member as well as team representative (Elsmore, 2017). For the better
understanding of report Waitrose company has been selected which is British supermarket whose
headquarter is in London, United Kingdom. The company deals in various types of product as
well as services like food items and non food items to carry out effective offline or online
shopping successfully. This report covers topics like determine the influence of culture, politics
as well as role of power within organization context. Examine the process or theories on the
basis of which internal manager can motivate the workforce to put in explicit efforts
successfully. Moreover, understand the method based on which team member function by
involving their efforts with one other. Further, evaluate the application of different organization
behavior theories within a particular situation.
TASK 1
P1: Analyse how an organization’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team
behavior and performance
To achieve the goals of the organization company follow certain guidelines and ascertain
role and responsibility to the employee of the firm. Waitrose company in order to reach their
vision and mission culture, power, values and norms and even the politics going around inside
the company plays an important role. It increases the efficiency right if everything is in favor of
the company.
Organizational culture: It includes expectations, experiences and many more things. It
tells the people how to behave in an organization. Organizational culture may be defined as a set
of assumptions-invented, discovered or developed by group of people as it learns to cope with its

problems of external adaptation and internal integration-that has worked well enough to be
considered valuable and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive,
think and feel in relation to those problems. So it is very important to maintain coordination
between different departments so that they all together can achieve the desired organizational
goal to achieve profit in the future (Kearney and Kruger, 2016).
Handy’s model of organizational culture: There are 4 types of culture which this
model deals from, they are:
Power culture: Under this culture the authority to take decision and give task is levied to
the top level management. Top level management analyse the entire external and internal
environment and tell what need to be done to improve the efficiency and achieve the goal. The
Waitrose company can adapt this culture as this type of a technique will help them to take
decision in short span which will save the time of an organization and at the same time working
culture will be maintained within the firm. This culture will help individual and the team as
chance of lack of coordination can be avoided and work can be done without any stoppage or
breakage.
Role culture: This culture promotes usage of rules. These organizations are highly
controlled and the entire employee working under is well aware about their roles and
responsibility. Power under this can be determined as position of the individual in Waitrose
organizational structure. The problem with this culture is decision making can take certain
amount of time as it is slow in nature. The reason is it goes through hierarchy. People in higher
hierarchy ascertain job to people under them. In context to company manager can provide the
employee the task in which they are well trained so that they can be more productive and work
towards the goals of the company.
Task culture: When company decides to form groups or team for a specific project or
task it’s known as task culture (King, 2017). So under this power will change with regards to the
mix of team member and the status of the problem, project and task. In context of Waitrose
company they try to allot project to a good mix of employee who has skills and experience. So
that they can make that culture successful by completing the project in the said time so that the