Influence of Organisational Culture, Politics and Power

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Influence of organisational culture, politics and power..........................................................1
M1 Analysis of influence culture, policies and power................................................................4
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P2 Goal achievement theories of motivation...............................................................................4
M2 Behavioural motivational theories.........................................................................................8
D1 Relationship analysis of culture, politics, power and motivation .........................................8
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9
P3 Effective v/s Ineffective Team................................................................................................9
M3 Team and group evolution concepts....................................................................................12
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................12
P4 Idea and belief of Organisational Behaviour........................................................................12
M4 Influence of OB in positive and negative way....................................................................13
D2. Critically analyse the relevancy of theories and concepts for developing a team..............14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organisational Behaviour is a learning that helps in knowing human behaviour working
in the organisation. Individual behaviour while performing their role in the organisation is
studied to understand organisational behaviour. This is important for businesses because it helps
to understand why people behaves in a certain manner in an organisation. Complex nature of
humans working in the business to achieve objectives is studied as per theories of behaviour.
These theories help in understanding and develop a better conceptualization of organisational
life. This assignment is prepared to understand the organisational behaviour of Waitrose Limited
which is a chain of British supermarkets. This organisation has largest employee-owned retailer
in food division (Bakotić, 2016). In the year 1908 it was established as Waitrose Limited by
Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor. This Organisation has its headquarters in United
Kingdom and acquired 5.1% share of the market in UK.
In this project impact of culture, policies and power on the behaviours of others in an
administration is mentioned. Process of motivating individuals and team to achieve a goal and
cooperation understanding in an organisation is elaborated. Together with this concepts and
philosophies of organisational behaviour to a business situation is reported in this project.
LO 1
P1 Influence of organisational culture, politics and power
Organisational activity analysis in a business helps in understanding how an individual
reacts and behaves in a particular situation while performing business activities. Organisational
performance and attaining business objective is influenced through individual and team
behaviour while performing on behalf of the company (Beddoe, 2015). Human resource is one of
the most important resource in business for performing all the activities on behalf of the
company. Human resource department of Waitroes Limited will ensure that a healthy
atmosphere is created for individuals and team for generating positive behaviour of an employee
to work more efficiently. Culture in an organisation that is followed from top to lower level of
management and influence each person working in the company. Designing of policies and
segregation of power in Waitrose Limited influences individual and team behaviour in the
following manner-
Influence of organisational Culture
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Organisational culture is subject to change and Waitrose Limited is one of such
organisation that has adopted significant changes over the past years. It is provided in theory
form that are collected on beliefs and principles of employees working in the organisation.
Organisational culture is summarised as a process that helps to segregate mind of a member in a
group from another (Clay-Williams and Braithwaite, 2015). A good and positive culture of
Waitrose will help employees to coordinate and influence towards achievement of organisational
goals. Charles Handy classified organisational culture in several sections that influence
individual and team behaviour are as-
Power Culture: This culture allows only limited people of the organisation to enjoy the
position with power. Decision making authority lies in few hands and they enjoy preferential
position over others. Employees needs to follow the orders provided to them and no freedom is
provided for expressing their opinion in business. Implementation of Power culture in Waitrose
will minimise overall productivity of business through limited contribution of each individual.
Behaviour of individuals in power culture becomes aggressive when no freedom is provided to
express their opinion.
Task Culture: This particular culture provides organisational value related to a job or a
project. Individuals who are performing a task are given all the powers required to control the
work in the project. Talent and idea of an individual will be given preference for solving team
issues and this leads to establishment of flexible team culture (Coccia, 2015). Application of task
culture in Waitrose will give each individual and team to work hard to complete a particular
project. In task culture employees behave positively towards work and organisational goals to
attain them in the prescribed time as task is assigned to them is clear and they carry appropriate
skills to achieve the same.
Person Culture: In this culture individual is considered as role model and provided more
privilege then other employees. Establishing this form of culture in business will leads an
individual to get more concerned regarding their individual profits rather than organisation as a
whole. Individuals are kept at dominating power in this form of culture. Waitrose will be
benefited in short run by introducing person culture nut in long run overall productivity will be
adversely affected.
Role Culture: In this form of organisational culture role of an employee is based on their
specialization and qualification. More and more opportunity is provided to employees based on
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