Influence of Organisational Culture, Power and Politics on Individuals and Team Behaviour

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Influence of organisational culture, power and politics over individuals and team behaviour
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P2 Evaluation of motivational theories which are applicable in organisational context.............6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Evaluation of effective and ineffective team..........................................................................8
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P4 Applying philosophies of organisational behaviour.............................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organization Behaviour is the study of you human behaviour is phenomena of studying
human behaviour in respect of the job rules which they are performing on behalf of organization
in which they are working. The behaviour of an individual is studied in order to seek knowledge
about performance of company and it’s achievements. This assignment is based on Marks and
Spencer which is British multinational clothing retailer. Marks and Spencer was founded in 1884
by Michelle marks and Thomas Spencer (Alblas, G., Wijsman, E. and van Noort, M., 2019). The
headquarters of company is in London, UK. This assignment covers impact of culture, power
and politics on the behaviour of organisation and its employees. Team development theory of
Tuckman and path goal theory of leadership are applied in order to make the company most
effective
TASK 1
P1 Influence of organisational culture, power and politics over individuals and team behaviour
Organisational Culture
It is a guide provided to the personals and other members of an organisation in order to manage
and influence their behaviour while working in company. It includes number of factors such as
rules, values, norms, philosophies and expectations of management from their workforce. There
are different types of organisational culture which are as follows. Role culture- this is a culture where roles and responsibilities are are divided and
assigned to the individuals by the superiors according to their expertise and
specialisations.
 Power culture- in this culture all the powers in an organisation stays with one or two
persons who are at higher level. The power means in your hands and all the controls and
decisions are taken by the superiors (Bakotić, D., 2016).
 Person culture- this type of culture in favour of employees and they believe that they are
more important than the entire company in which they are working. The employees are
more concerned about themselves and work for their personal agendas and needs rather
than the company. Personnel’s basically keep themselves priority before their
organisation.

Marks and Spencer is a multinational organisation which follows divisional structure and very
complex one. This is because the company is widely spread in geographical area. Therefore role
culture is suggested to the company which can influence the behaviour of individuals in positive
manner.
Organisational Power
Power refers to the ability of an individual or a group to make people work according to them
and in a way do I need to get things done. Organisational power also refers to the same definition
highlighting the behaviour and impact of power on behaviour of workforce. Few powers are
discussed below in next section(Elsmore, P., 2017). Reward power is a power the leaders of the company have the ability to appreciate and
reward the staff according to the performances and skills they shows in their work.
Reward power is a motivating factor which can encourage and influence behaviour of
individuals in a positive manner and increase the performance level as employees will
work with their full efficiency in order to get rewarded and appreciated by their superiors
and move forward in the career. Coercive Power is just opposite of the reward power here leaders make their employees
work against their will and force them to perform a specific task in a particular manner.
The form of power will demotivate staff and negatively impact their behaviour which can
hamper their performance and ability to be most effective and work potentially (Balmer,
J. M. and Burghausen, M., 2015).
Marks and Spencer is use organisation with a number of employees and workforce this implies
that the personnel’s needs to motivated and satisfied which can be done by adopting reward
power rather than coercive power. It can help the leaders to manage to behaviour of individuals
and convert them positively.
Organisational Politics
Politics is basically a tactic how to make people work in favour of oneself. Organisational
politics has two aspects positive and negative, it depends on leaders about how they use their
powers and indulge in politics which is in favour of the company. Organisational politics is
define by a matrix which has four quadrants and each dimension of matrix highlights different
sections of organisational politics. These quadrants are elaborated in next section.