Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation, and Team Effectiveness

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
P1. Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance........................................................................................................4
P2. Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context..........................................7
P3. Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team........................11
P4. Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and a given business situation.....................................................................................12
Conclusion................................................................................................................................14
Reference List..........................................................................................................................15
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Introduction
Organisational Behaviour is the study of organisations with the collection of people working
together in an organization. There is an interface between the organisations and the human
behaviour. It is the basic study, which investigates the impact of structure, group or
individual on behaviour in an organisation, so that organisation can use and apply that
knowledge to improve the working environment (Kitchin, 2017). The culture, politics, power
of the organisation can combine organisational behaviour in ASDA Stores Limited, which
will be considered in this report. The motivation of the employee for doing work efficiently
will be also explained here. In the business situation, the philosophy and concepts will also be
explained. To achieve organisational goal, different models of team development will be
discussed. There will be also a discussion of importance of effective team development in
compare with ineffective team development.
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LO1:
P1. Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and
team behaviour and performance.
There will be a discussion of the culture, politics and power of organisation, which influence
the individual and their team behaviour and performance.
Influence on Culture:
An organisational culture is the basic process of shared belief, value and assumptions, which
help in the organisation in governing the way employees, think and act on their opportunities
and problems. It helps all the employees to carry the value and norms. The culture in an
organization gives structure to the activities. Therefore, with the help of beliefs in different
activities, the culture has to be set as benchmark for higher growth and productivity (Taylor,
2018).
Factors that influence the organisational culture and their importance:
Belief, value and norms can together make organisational culture. With the help of
Organisational culture, the behaviour of the employees can be observed and it is the belief,
which can help them to achieve the target that an organisation wants. Value helps in creating
the mindset of the employees and the norms help the all the employees to do all works in an
ethical way. Organisational culture consists of power, task, role and person, which are
discussed below:
 Power Culture: When employees in an organisation get jobs based on their
experience, training and expertise in the desired field, then it creates a power culture.
In an organisation, this culture helps in doing work efficiently from the workforce
because the company recruits the employees who have basic skills, knowledge and
ability. This type of culture generally takes place in small companies (Dunphy, 2016).
 Role Culture: In this culture, there is a different role for different employees in an
organisation. This role culture is mostly useful in large firms because there is so much
responsibility in the large firms so different roles has been divided among different
employees.
 Task Culture: When there is a sense of doing work by a self-motivated employee in
a team, then it creates task culture. In this kind of culture the tasks have been given to
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