Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Power, Politics, Motivation Theories and Team Performance

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
P1 Explain how the organisation's culture, power and politics influence the individual and
team behaviour and performance?..............................................................................................3
P2 Explain how content and process theories of motivation affects the individual and tea
performance to achieve the organisational goals? .....................................................................6
P3 Explain what makes an effective team opposed to ineffective team ?..................................9
P4 Explain the concepts and philosophies of the organisational behaviour in a business
situation? ..................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of how people interact with the other group
members in the organisation and its principles are applied primarily in the attempts to make the
business functions operate more effectively and efficiently. The main goal of organizational
behaviour is to strengthen the theory and developing a better conceptualization of organizational
life . This study examines th3e human behaviour in the wok environment and also to regulate its
impact on the job structure, performance, communication, motivation and leadership. This report
is based on Tesco which is the leading supermarket company headquartered in London. It was
founded in 1919 by John Cohen. The company is well known for its quality of products that it
serves to its customers. It has almost 800 stores in United Kingdom(Gascoyne, 2019). This
report will cover the culture, power, politics which can influence the individual and team
performance, then it will include the motivational theories which can can help the company in
achieving the organisational objectives and goals. At last it will cover the effective and
ineffective teamwork or philosophies of the organisational behaviour.
P1 Explain how the organisation's culture, power and politics influence the individual and
team behaviour and performance?
Organisational culture – it is the group of values , expectations, and practices that guide
and inform the actions of all the team members in the busin3ess organisation. It is the collection
of traits the make the organisation to create its brand image4. The great culture examine the
positive traits that result in the improved performance of the employees(van den Kieboom,
2021).
CHARL;S HANDY MODEL
This theory links the organisational structure to the culture. It explores the classification of
business structures and organisation based on the functions and roles of each individual. The four
types were identified in this theory which is as follows
Role Culture- In this type of culture it has high degree of formalization and high degree of
centralization. There is well defined rules and regulations and a well defined organisational
hierarchy to be followed in the organisation. The employees of the Tesco company works
independently to achieve the organisation goal effectively and efficiently.

Task Culture – The organisation who follows the task culture are categorised with high degree
of centralisation and low degree of decentralisation. This culture if very flexible and result
oriented. Tesco can use this culture for completing a specific job at the particular time.
Power Culture- This is basically followed by the small organisations where there is only one
leader who directly communicates to its subordinates and have the power for everything.. in this
types of culture the decisions can be made quickly and responsive as there is one leader who has
control over the business organisation. The Tesco company gives power to the top level
management who are talented and can take the right decision the the benefits of the employees
within the organisation(Ahmed, 2021).
Person Culture- this focuses on the work environment which is self directed and defined. In this
culture every individual is rewarded on the basis of its performance so there is no team work and
coordination. Tesco can use this culture to motivate its employees so that they can work
effectively yo achieve the goal of the organisation.
From the above discussion it can be concluded that Tesco can use the role culture in the
organisation so that employees will be able to work with friendly nature with their colleagues. It
will enhance the individual performance and employees will able to take decision on their own
level. The roles and responsibilities can be divided to each individual so that they can work
effectively and there is no conflicts between the team members.
Power
It defines to the ability to influence the behaviour of the employees within the business
organisation. There can be both positive and negative impact of using power where if the top
level management use power in positive way to motivate the employees without the
discrimination where the use of power in negative way the manager will only motivate their
favourite employees in the organisation(Amanzholovam and Aubakirova, 2021). There are
various types of power explained below:
 Reward power- It id the ability of a top level manager to grant the reward such as
promotions, pay in monetary terms, incentives, reward schemes to motivate the
employees and it is form of action of appreciating the work of the employees.
 Expert power- It refers to the power that a person has because of having special
knowledge and skills of solving the problems. Such employees influence for their action
by the top level management of the business organisation.