How an organisation culture, power and politics influence individual and team performance

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyse how an organisation culture, politics and power influence an individual and team 3
M1 Critically analyse how culture, power and politics of an organisation can influence an
individual team behaviour and team performance.................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2 Explain how content and process theories of motivation can help to achieve best out of its
employees...............................................................................................................................6
M2 Critically evaluates how to influences the behaviour of others through an application of
the behavioural and motivational theories..............................................................................8
D1 Critically evaluate relationship between culture, power and politics and motivation which
gives success to team and goals..............................................................................................9
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3 What makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team and utilises theories in
same context...........................................................................................................................9
M3 Analyse relevant team and also group development theories to support the development of
dynamic................................................................................................................................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P4 Application and concept of philosophies of organisational behaviour...........................11
M4 Explore and evaluates how concepts and philosophies of the OB and influences behaviour
..............................................................................................................................................12
D2 Critically analyse and evaluates the relevance of the team development theories in context
of an organisational behaviour concepts..............................................................................12
Reflection:............................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of both group and individual performance and also
an activity within an organisation. This is an area of study which helps to examines human level
of behaviour into the work environment and also helpful to determines its major impact on well
built structure or regulation (Yunus and et. al., 2010). In current era, organisation is suffering
with an issue of negative culture or power and its impact is severe for far time. This report will
carry on Marks & Spencer which is the global leader in retail business and specialised in selling
fashion merchandise, groceries and other services at the profitable level. Apart from this, report
will cover discussion on organisational culture, power or politics which has its influences on
organisation. Also, this report will also cover process and content theories of motivation and
what makes effective team as opposed to ineffective team. Lastly, report will also concept or
philosophies of organisation behaviour.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how an organisation culture, politics and power influence an individual and team
Culture is the set of an important understanding that member of a community share into
common. It consists of basic set of values, idea's, perception, preferences, concept of morality
and code of conduct. Culture is an internal environment of the organisation consists of different
norms, ethical consideration and regulations positive in its nature.
According to the Laurie j mullein (2017), Culture is the collection of the tradition, values,
policies and attitudes that helps out to give defined structure to work in firms. In every culture,
there is an influence of power, either positive or negative whose impact can be two side. By
power means complex and dynamic concept that can be easily interpreted in terms of control or
influence over the behaviour of other people with or without their consent. Power has its own
substitute named as politics which is meant by internal activities running in the organisation
mostly untrue in nature (Christina and et. al., 2014). Its noted that due to politics, individual &
team behaviour is decreasing in the M&S. Positive culture and power is vital for every
organisation to lead into their desired goals or target. M&S employee's are shifting to their
rivalries, because of more relaxed culture and management exist in their own environment. It is
the danger tone for management of M&S to understand their organisational power, culture or

politics and its types to know at what level or stages organisational internal can be amends to
being harmony and peace in an organisation.
For understanding of an organisation culture, Handy model of organisation culture is
explained here to bring out concise learning to adopt specific culture to stop employee turnover.
Brief analysis of this model of culture is as follows:
Power culture: In this culture, power is retain in hands of the central person who
instructs other person to follow rules or regulation in workplace (Robbins and et. al., 2013). In
power culture, seniors are being delegates responsibilities & duties to junior working under
them. Impact of this culture is rise of being partial to employee's which is root cause for
conflicts.
Role culture: In this culture, employees are delegated their self roles & responsibilities as
part of their specialisation, talent and interest, so that they must perform by high ability or
capabilities along with taking risks and threats. Herein, employee is responsible for its work and
no blame will be goes to other. Role culture is often stereotyped as a bureaucracy and work by
logic and rationality.
Task culture: In this culture, management is being engaged in building of teams for
accomplishing goals or targets by solving problems. Task culture is also focus to gather all
resources such as funds & right people to accomplishes goals or target in less time period. It is
mainly job oriented or process oriented and also linked to some standards to work.
Person culture: In this culture, individual is mainly central point of focus and structure is
exists to serve an individual within it. Employees are being consider self to be more important
than organisation. In this, focus is given to accomplishes self goals rather than organisation
goals. This is sometimes noticed that employee's are not loyal about their roles or responsibility.
Marks or Spencer is currently using power culture in which autocratic leadership as their
priority (Unsworth and et. al., 2013). Due to this, employee's turnover is still happening and can
be impact on brand image. In if recommends, task culture is the best option to increase efficiency
of the M&S operation.
Organisational power: It is considered as influence which is in both right or wrong way.
In context of M&S, there are different types of the power and its impacts needs to be explained: