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

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Evaluate how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1
M1 Critically explain how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour and performance........................................................................3
P2 Explore how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context...........................................4
M2 Critically explain how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective
implementation of behavioural motivational theories, concepts and models.............................5
D1 Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that
enables teams and organisations to succeed providing justified recommendations....................5
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...........................6
M3 Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the development of
cooperation within effective teams.............................................................................................7
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organizational
context and given business situation...........................................................................................8
M4 Evaluate how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence behaviour within a
given business situation...............................................................................................................9
D2 Critically analyse and evaluate the relevance of team development theories, concepts and
philosophies that influence behaviour in the workplace to improve business performance and
productivity...............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is refers to the behaviour of the workforce in the organisational
setting and the interrelation between human behaviour and organisation itself. It analyse how
people or employees interact in the teams and how this interaction helps in the effective
operations and profitability in the organisation. In order to make organisational behaviour
effective there is a need to implement principles and techniques in the business which make
operations and functions. In the company there are multiple areas which needs improvement in
order to maintain healthy working environment such as increment in job satisfaction,
encouragement of leadership to establish strong management foundation, improvement in the job
performance of the workforce and providing enough resources to the employees which results in
effective working. The report is being made in the context of company Unilever which is a UK
based organisation conducting their operations in different consumer goods. They are having
their Headquarter in London(Balwant, 2018) . The aim of this report is to highlight the
organisation culture, politics and power in team behaviour and performance. Then it covers the
evaluation of theories of motivation and motivational techniques in the organisation. It also
highlights the techniques and methods that makes a effective team. At the last it discuss about
the application of concepts , philosophies and behaviours in organisational behaviour.
TASK
P1 Evaluate how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and
team behaviour and performance.
The important part to be an successful organisation is to have a strong culture that widely
spread among the organisation and shared set of beliefs which helps in providing support to
organisation structure and strategies. Employees are the prime source of success in the
organisation as they build the culture and strong working ethics in the organisation. Organisation
culture is based on different values, assumptions and beliefs(Bucchio, Jones, and Dopwell,
2021) . There are different aspects of organisation culture that makes impact on organisation,
some of the aspects of culture are discussed below:
 Social culture- It defined as the roles and responsibilities of the team members in the
organisation and their accountability and power related to that. There must be healthy
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working culture in the organisation which defines communication among the employees
without any confusion in duties and the responsibilities in work.
 Material culture- This comprises developing effective culture which monitors that each
and every thing that people and teams achieve have exchange values. Employees way of
working and contribution in supporting with each other effects the functionality of the
organisation.
 Ideological cultures- This involves the set of personal values , beliefs and ideas which
build in the employees. Their emotional and intellectual traits helps in conducting daily
interactions and their working. Having Values and beliefs greatly helps in organisation.
In the context of Unilever, their working culture is established by the management and they are
communicating well in the organisation in order to maintain effective working procedure. The
leaders and managers implement approaches which create good management systems.
The impact of politics and power in team behaviour and organisation culture
Politics in the organisation involves the use of power and social networking at the workplace in
order to achieve the benefits for the teams and the individual(Carducci, 2020) . There are 4
types of politics which are discussed below:
 The woods- It includes the formal processes and guidelines which implicit norms and the
hidden assumptions through the unspoken routines. It provides safety for the employees
of the organisations and analyse areas which requires changes in the organisation.
 The High Ground- It combines the formal authority with the structure of the
organisation. It builds on the basis of rules, structure, policies and procedures which build
on the basis of political activities. This high ground provide guidance in controlling of the
organisations.
 The weeds- It includes personal influence and informal working network which grows in
the organisation naturally. Such as if someone is underperforming in the organisation
then the others compensate on behalf of them.
 The Rocks- It includes the interactions in the organisation which is based on formal
chain and set of sources authority such as interactions are based through the role or
expertise and by access of resources. It symbolize the strong foundations that helps in
keeping organisation steady at the time of crises.
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