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

Unit
12:Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Analyse the way organisational culture, power and politics affect the individual and team
behaviour................................................................................................................................3
Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence ....5
individual and team behaviour and performance...................................................................5
Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques .....6
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context......................................6
Critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective ............8
application of behavioural motivational theories, concepts and models................................8
Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation ..........8
that enables teams and organisations to succeed providing justified recommendations........8
Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team............................8
Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the development of ...10
dynamic cooperation............................................................................................................10
Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational . .11
context and a given business situation..................................................................................11
Explore and evaluate how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence ..........13
behaviour in both a positive and negative way....................................................................13
Critically analyse and evaluate the relevance of team development theories in context . . .13
of organisational behaviour concepts and philosophies that influence behaviour in the work 13
place......................................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is the study of how human behaves primarily in their organizational
roles. Its a analysis of how an individual interact in the teams and how they work together. The
research of organisational behaviour is co-related with the perspective which helps to improve
the overall effectiveness of workplace. It is concerned with individual's thoughts, emotions,
feelings and actions which is going to affect organisational environment . It provides an insight
of how workers behave and perform in a certain way at the workplace and develop an
understanding of the aspects that can motivate workers to perform better, which helps a company
to build a trusting relationship with their employees. This report is based on UK based company
Marks and Spencer founded in 1884 head quartered in London. Its a leading British retailers
deals with great food value, clothing and home products(Woodrow, 2017) . The context of this
report mainly deals with organisational cultures and behaviours that influence organisational
performances. This will cover the techniques with the analysis of theories, concept and models.
TASK
Analyse the way organisational culture, power and politics affect the individual and team
behaviour.
It may be referred as the process of managing and guiding the workforce in order to
assess the behaviour that may affect the company's operations. Company's culture, policies and
team behaviour are the some important factors that influence the change behaviour of an
individual. It is needed to create a positive and favourable work environment that in order to
build a feasible behaviour of an individual(Steers and Sánchez‐Runde, 2017). Following are the
some theories that influence the behaviour of a team or individual. Hofstede theory is a analyse
of the framework of cultural dimensions of the organisation. It highlight the difference in culture
and the values in different nations. It includes different key points in that is individualism and
collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance and masculinity- femininity.
Culture
It plays a crucial role in the changing behaviour of the individual and considered as the
foundation of the successful business enterprise. It involves the formulation of key strategies
based on the culture of organisation. A well drawn business plan can help in making the

enterprise successful. The organisational culture helps in the more engagement of the employees
and makes a strong brand identity along with the creation of a healthy team building
environment.
Task Culture
In this culture, the company focuses on completion of specific tasks and projects. There
are various individuals who contributes in the task culture when they are required. Marks and
Spencer is focusing on various task which are needed to be accomplished such as identification
of customer's needs and making decent advertising commercial and many more. Every task
needs specific individuals as every time the same individual cannot be appropriate for different
project task. A different set of people who are expert in a particular field are required every time
in order to complete task.
Person Culture
In this type of culture, all the individuals believe themselves as superior in the
organisation. The persons are provided with complete freedom to express their views and
thoughts and makes the decisions by mutual power sharing. This culture helps in creating
motivation among the employees and they put their best efforts for the attainment of goals. In
context to M&S, they emphasis on giving the equal rights to all the individuals along with the
authority which leads to the enhancement of their skills.
Power Culture
This culture is based on the centre power course and all the decisions are taken by the leaders or
by the management authorities. The power is not delegated to the smaller individuals and the
power oriented people are taken into this type of culture. As the business expands the authority is
transferred to the further department or individual who is having the access to control its
workforce and decision of the management (Alsawaier, 2018) . Key decision making process are
undertaken by the management authorities by a structured analysis.
Legitimate power
It is the formal authority that is given to the individual within an organisation. It is derived from
the position of a job and can be referred as the positional power. Marks and Spencer is providing
the power based on the position along with the skills and talent that an individual have.
Expert power