Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on Behaviour in Tesco Plc

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1 Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others in Tesco
Plc....................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Identify the organizational culture, politics and power that impacts on behaviour an
performance of team and individual.......................................................................................3
M1 Critically evaluate the impacts of culture, politics and power on individual's and team
behaviour as well as performance..........................................................................................6
LO 2 Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal.......................................6
P2 Analyse the content and process theory of motivation to achieve the goals of organization.
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M2 Critically examine the application of motivational theories and concept which influence
the others behaviour...............................................................................................................8
D1 Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics and power which enables
team as well as organization and provide recommendations.................................................8
LO 3 Demonstrate an understanding of how to cooperate effectively with others.........................8
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................8
M3 Critically analysed the team and group development theories......................................10
LO 4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour to a given business situation.
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P4 Use organizational behaviour concepts and philosophies...............................................11
M4 Explore the concepts and philosophies which impacts upon the behaviour in positive and
negative manner....................................................................................................................12
D2 Critically evaluate the relevance of team development related to organizational behaviour
concepts and philosophies....................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour defines as a study of the behaviour and performance of an
individual as well as team members through understand and guess improver to determining the
personnel attitudes to improve the productivity with high level of efficiency. To study about the
behaviours in detain Tesco plc is chosen which is a British multinational groceries company and
deals in retailing industry. It was founded in 1919 in London, United Kingdom. It deals in
supermarkets, super stores, hypermarkets and convenience shop. Under this report discussed
about the influences and impacts of organisational culture, politics and powers in context of
individual and group behaviour as well as performance. Further studied about the motivational
theories and effective or ineffective teams through applying concepts, methods and approaches.
Also, describes the behavioural concepts and philosophies which are used to improve the
productivity and profitability.
LO 1 Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of
others in Tesco Plc.
P1 Identify the organizational culture, politics and power that impacts on behaviour an
performance of team and individual.
Organizational culture refers to the collective assumptions, values and beliefs which are
contributed towards the psychological as well as social atmospheres of an organizations.
Whereas the politics within the company defines as a behaviour and procedures in persons
interactions includes power as well as authority (Salas-Vallina, Alegre and Fernandez, 2017).
Also, politics considered as a instrument to approach the capacity of business operations and try
to balance the different views and thoughts of parties. Moreover, power is concerned with the
capability of a person to make things go on or occur in accordance with the individual's
perspectives by agreed all persons on the same things.
Influences of organizational culture on the behaviour as well as performances of
individual and team members:
organisational culture defines as a combination of values, beliefs etc. that are exploited
for conducting and controlling operational activities in an effective manner. Tesco' management

needs to maintain their positive environment for effective outcomes and increase the productivity
and profitability (Bakotić, 2016).
As per the views of Charles Handy theory four types of cultures in an organization that
can be considered as follows: Power culture: In this kind of culture means all rules and regulations are concentrated
among a few so the decisions are easily change. Task culture: This forms when an organization defined particular issues which are needs
to be solve in a team. This uses mixture of skills, personalities as well as attitudes of
different members towards a single problem. Person culture: This is related to that kind of culture in which people works for
themselves instead of whole organization. Role culture: This is based on the strict roles and responsibility of every individual's as
well as it is highly controlled. It is identified by positions of people in the company
structure.
Impact of culture on the performance and behaviour of team and individual:
Culture of an organization impacts upon the employees learnings and motivational
aspects and generate confidence in order to accept the changes and effectively use their own
skills and competencies (Whelan, 2016).
Influences of organizational politics which impacts on the team and individuals
performance as well as behaviour:
Organisational politics means the involvement of company in a political affairs with the
purpose of attaining their politics objectives which benefits to the members interest. Manager of
Tesco requires to make effective judgements to control their entire workforce for facilitating
positive workplace.
several factors of organisational politics which are described below: Productivity decreases: Politics leads in distraction of employees because they are busy
in noticing its co-workers instead of their work which impacts upon the company's
productivity and profitability (Balwant, 2018). Employees dissatisfaction: Politics results in less satisfaction because of credit of hard
performers goes to others as well as competent workers may loose their interests in
performing tasks.