Influence of Organisational Culture, Politics, and Power on Behaviour and Performance

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and
team behaviour and performance.................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluate howcontent and processtheories of motivationand motivationaltechniques,
enableeffective achievement of goals in an organisational context.............................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3. What makes an effective team, as opposed to an ineffective team.......................................7
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P4. Apply concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context and a given
business situation.......................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour can be describe as the study that includes details about
organisational activities as well as performance of employees. This will include job structure,
performance, motivation, culture, communication and other factors that is significant in
enhancing business operations (Ullah and et.al., 2017). It is crucial for company to have positive
and effective behaviour of organisation in order to conduct business activities in better and
effective manner. Behaviour of organisation is majorly dependent on the way people act in a
group and contribute to attain set objectives of company. This will lead to have significant
impact on effective and efficient performance of business operation. This report is based on
Waitrose organisation. This is one of the leading company in retail sector and it is providing
different types of products and services to customers. Waitrose organisation was developed in
1904 and headquarter of this organisation is located in London, United Kingdom. This
organisation as 353 retail outlets that is located in different part of United Kingdom market area.
There are 65 Waitrose convenience shops that are offering range of products and services to
customers. This report will includes detail abut organisational culture, power and politics along
with its impact on behaviour and performance of employees. It consists of different content and
process theories of motivation that will support in attaining organisational goals. Apart from this
it will includes information regarding effective team. In this different philosophies of
organisational behaviour are analysed.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Organisational behaviour is majorly dependent on the culture, politics and the power
which will have influence over the performance and behaviour of employees (Illien,
Golestanian and Sen, 2017). It has been determine that this will lead to have major impact on
growth and development of business as it will influence behaviour or performance of
employees. Waitrose organisation is consider as largest employee owned type of business that
will have influence over employees capability and productivity. This will have influence over
performance of employees as well as team performance to conduct organisational task and
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