Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Power, and Politics on Behaviours and Performance

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Analyse how culture, power and politics organisation influence behaviours and
performance of individual and team...........................................................................................1
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................3
P2: Evaluate how process and content theories of motivation and techniques of motivation
enable effective achievement of organisational goals.................................................................3
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................6
P3: Define what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.............................6
TASK4.............................................................................................................................................8
P4: Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour with context to organisation
and given business situation........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is defined as the study and implication of knowledge about
behaviours and attitudes of human related to other factors of organisation such as- technology,
structure, social system etc. (ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR, 2020). It is very important to
analyse and encourage the behaviours of employees for successful operation of business.
The Fullers Griffin brewery is a British brewery company founded by John Bird filler,
Henry Smith and John Turner in 1845. Headquarter of firm is located in London and the
essential product is beer.
In this report how organisation's culture, politics and power affects the behaviour of
individual and group are observed. Further different theories and techniques of motivation that
enable firm in achievement of business goals effectively, ways to make effective team of
ineffective team are explained. In addition concept and philosophies of organisational behaviours
are explained in the report with context to Fullers Brewery.
TASK1
P1: Analyse how culture, power and politics organisation influence behaviours and performance
of individual and team.
Organisational behaviour is the study of human behaviour within organisation in context
of size, structure, power, culture etc. It plays important role in smooth functioning of business
enterprises. following are the factors that affect individuals and team behaviours.
Culture :- Organisation's culture is considered as the collection of values and norms and
assumptions of business that guide and inform actions of members of firm. Strong culture of
organisation is important for employees to know how top management expect them to react to
any situation, employees believe that expected reaction is proper; employees feel that they will
be rewarded for showing organisational values (Anitha, 2016). Handy's model of organisational
culture can divide culture into 4 elements described as follows :
Power culture: Power is the authority to rule and control someone. In organisations
power remains in few people's hand and only they are enable to take decisions. The effective use
of power impacts respective organisation in positive ways while, using power to only control and
rigid people affects the firm in negative ways. In terms of Fullers spreads positive power in order
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to make guidelines to help employees in accomplishment of their tasks and duties will influence
employees behaviours and performance in effective ways.
Task culture: In task culture employees teams are made to solve specific problems and
projects and are depended on their own expertise or on their colleagues to complete task and
project correctly. In terms of respective firm specific teams and groups are made to perform
unique tasks and projects within specified time-limit and members of teams are allowed to use
their unique expertise (Whelan, 2016). This will be result in influencing the behaviours of team
members and their performance of giving productive output.
Role culture: It is found in bureaucratic organisations and is highly job-oriented. Due to
strict obligations, procedures, rules it has more negative impacts on human behaviours. To avoid
this negative impact on employee’s behaviours and performance leaders of Fullers Brewery can
delegated roles and responsibilities of employees as per their specification, qualifications and
interest to extract best out of them.
Person culture: It is found in professional organisations where employees are more
concern about own self rather than company. In terms of Fullers should have complete
knowledge about expertise of every member and should understand their needs & interests so
that they can work freely and take the responsibility of their own work. This will be result in
positive behaviours and performance of team members.
Although task culture is suggested for Fullers Brewery because it creates a balance
between power from upper level and authority of employees of performing tasks. Positive use of
power, politics and culture will result in effective productivity and performance, building co-
operation and coordination between team members that leads to smooth functioning and
obtaining of desired objectives of business.
Power:- Power is defined as the ability to make things happen things as per the
perception of someone and others are expected to done things according him/her (Askeland,
2019). Following are the types of organisational power:
Coercive power: It is the type of power used to force someone to submit to one's needs
for the fear of losing something. It affects the behaviours of employees in negative way. Leaders
and managers of Fullers should avoid using of this type of power for influencing employee’s
behaviours and performance in effective way.
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