Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics and Power

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1
M1 Critically analyse the impact of culture, politics and power................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P2 Evaluate content and process theories of motivation ............................................................5
M2 Critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others by applying behavioural
motivational theories...................................................................................................................7
D1 Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation .........7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team............................8
M3 Analyse relevant team and group development theories......................................................9
M4. Evaluate how concepts and philosophies of OB influence the behaviour in positive and
negative way..............................................................................................................................11
D2. Critically analyse the relevancy of team development theories and concepts...................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour refers to the behaviour of individuals and a group of people
within the organisation while performing their roles and responsibilities. The learning of the
organisational behaviour helps the business in understanding and controlling the human
behaviour so that the performance of every individual can be improved. This study will also help
the business in increasing job satisfaction, encouraging effective leadership and promoting
innovation within the business organisation. The selected organisation in this file is Arcadia
Group Ltd. Which is a British multinational retailing company and its headquarters situated in
London and UK. This study will cover about the influence of organisation's culture, politics and
power on individual or team behaviour and performance. Along with this, the different
motivational theories and techniques which helps the business organisation to achieve their
desired goals and objectives in the limited period of time will also discuss in this report.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
In order to attain the higher success and growth in the marketplace an organisation needs
to stay concern for its human resources which are directly and indirectly affected by the
organisational culture, politics and power. The organisation culture refers to the environment of
the business organisation whereas, the power and policies are related to the leadership and
management of the business organisation. The impact of these elements on the individual as well
as whole team is discussing below:
Organisational culture: It refers to the beliefs, values, assumptions and behaviour of all
the members within the organisation. In order to operate all the business activities effectively
business organisation needs to maintain a healthy relationship with their employees, clients and
their stakeholders. The business manager of Arcadia Group can use the Handy's cultural typology
for understanding the culture of the business which are described below:
 Power culture: It represent that type of culture in which the power is centralised among
the single person or a few individuals, usually the founder of the business. This kind of
culture generally seen in the small start-ups in which the founder of the business is single
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person. It might create the tension and stress among the employees as it restricts the
creativity and innovation within the business(Christina and et. al., 2014).
 Role culture: This type of culture implied the strict rules, regulations and high control on
the employees. In this, all the members within the organisation are well-introduce with
their roles and responsibilities which is determined by a person's role within the
organisation structure. By creating the role culture, a firm will be able to accomplish their
task on time as all the members are already aware form their duties and roles.
 Task culture: This culture forms by an organisation when they want to resolve a specific
problem or issue. As the task is the most important factor, so in this case the power is
shifting as per the team member and the status of the issue or project.
 Person culture: An organisation with person culture, reflects all the individuals superior
unique, well-educated and expertise in their own field. This culture helps the business
organisation in bringing the expertise so that all the problems can be resolved easily, and
desired outcomes can be attained. One of the important examples of this culture is law
firms.
As per the above study it can be stated that the task culture is more appropriate for the
Arcadia Group Ltd. as it will enables them to complete their complex problems on time by using
skills and knowledge.
Organisational politics: This depicts the use of power, authority and social networking
within the organisation in order to influence the individuals and teams to achieve its set targets
and goals. These are unofficial and informal efforts of the business to maintain the functional
capabilities and balance between the different view of the employees. The effect of the
organisational politics are defined beneath:
 Decrease in overall productivity: Organisational politics increase the involvement of the
employees in playing politics and waste their time on unofficial issue due to which the
overall productivity of the employees as well as overall organisation in going in the
downfall position which hinder the chances of the succession and growth of the business.
 Demotivated employees: It create bias and demotivation among those employees who
are serious towards accomplish their work although not getting the promotion and other
better opportunities because of the politics(Teh and Sun, 2012).
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