Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Power, Politics, Motivation, Team, Path Goal Theory

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Organisational culture, power, politics: ...............................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2. Content and process theory of motivation:...........................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
P3. Different types of team and Tuckmen and Jensen's model of team:.....................................4
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
P4. Concept and philosophy(Path Goal Theory) of organisational behaviour:..........................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
organisational behaviour is a study of people that in which manner they interact with each
other. It is a scientific method which is applied on management of employees. Organisational
behaviour theories is use for the enhancing the productivity of the employees as well as
organisation. In this report chosen company is Mark & Spencer which deals in retail industry. It
was established in 1884 by Thomas Spencer and Michael Marks(Carney, Cuddy and Yap, 2015).
Its headquarters situated in London, United Kingdom. In this report include, organisational
culture, power and politics and different motivational theories such as content and process theory
of motivation. In this also include different types of team and Tuckmen and Jensen's model of
team. At last include, concept of organisation and Path Goal Theory.
TASK 1
P1. Organisational culture, power, politics:
Organisational culture:
Organisational culture is a process of thoughts, beliefs, values of people. In this culture
include an organisation;s value, experience, philosophy, expectations which guide the behaviour
of individuals in an organisation. Culture considered the organisation's values, systems,
assumption, language, beliefs, environment, habits, location, norms, vision.
Types of culture:
culture are many types here discussed about Handy's typology culture which are
mentioned below:
Handy's typology of culture:
Charles Handy's was born in Ireland in 1932. and he is a good philosopher who very well
understands the organisational culture. In this model include four types of culture such as power
culture, task, role and person culture that are as follows:
Power culture: In power culture, power and authority is hold by top managers who give
orders to their subordinates(Coccia and Cadario, 2014). Managers are decide what to do or what
not to do and employees have follow their orders because they don't have any other choices. If
this power culture is used in M&S then its influence the employees' behaviour in negatively
because managers strict to their employees.
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