Effects of Culture, Power and Politics on the Organisation Pdf

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
LO1 Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on Organisational behaviour.........................1
LO2 Evaluate how to motivate individual and teams to achieve a goal. ..............................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
LO3 Effective team vs ineffective team ................................................................................9
LO4 Concepts and Philosophies of Organisational behaviour.............................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is study of performance of individual as well as group. This is related
to control on behaviour of humans in context of humans. In this report for better understanding
of Organisational behaviour, Waitrose Limited is taken. Waitrose Limited is a British company
which deals in retail supermarket of UK. This report will consist of culture, power & politics of
Waitrose Limited. Report will highlight that how Waitrose Limited motivate employees as well
as group to achieve organisational goal. Report will lay emphasis on effective and ineffective
team. Tuckman theory will be explained in the report. After that concepts of behaviour of
organisations will be discussed(Brown, and Capozza, 2016). Also, organisational philosophies
will be explain with help of path goal theory in the report.
TASK 1
LO1 Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on Organisational behaviour
Influence on culture by Handy's model
Power culture
The person which has the highest authority has maximum power. These organisations are
generally flat organisational structure. Employees in these kinds of organisations are judged by
their achievements. Although distribution of power is very low in these organisations but degree
of cooperation is very high. It creates an Autocratic environment which is not suitable for
Waitrose Limited.
Role culture
The organisations who follow role culture is based on rules. These organisations are highly
controlled by everyone in the organisation. Power is owned according to role assigned to an
individual. This type of organisation is less cooperative and low power distributed as well. This
culture is suitable for Waitrose Limited because they assign different roles to individuals like,
sales head, marketing head, distribution head, etc(Trépanier, 2015). But company doesn't follow
this culture because this negatively affects cooperation of any organisation.
Task culture
The organisations follow this culture formulated temporary teams to address specific problems or
performed task. Employees are experienced and professionals in the teams. The power is
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distributed according to teams. So, these organisations have highly distributed power also these
kinds of organisations are very cooperated and this culture is followed by Waitrose Limited.
Person culture
In this culture, the individual gave priority to themselves rather than organisation. Individuals
come to organisation to satisfy individual needs. Organisational goal is not a priority for
individuals. These kinds of organisations are Highly people oriented. Therefore, there are high
power distribution among persons. As they are concentrated to fulfil individual goal and less
concerned for organisational goal. The cooperation level is very low among these organisations.
This culture is not suitable for an organisation who deals with retail like, Waitrose Limited
because these organisations are more concerned towards achievement of target rather than satisfy
individuals. So, this culture doesn't follow by Waitrose Limited(Pentland,Hærem,2015).
In the organisation like Waitrose Limited, which is a supermarket chain of UK follows task
culture. As task culture is formulated keeping in mind the assigned task and teammates have to
complete their respective task. The teams formulated in Waitrose Limited, is a group of
individuals who is experienced in their fields as well as they are professionals. Waitrose Limited
formulated teams regarding sales task, distribution task, and also teams formulated for
development of new products.
Task culture offers Waitrose Limited a perfectionist in their given task. Thus, they are gaining
competitive advantage through this culture and giving a tough competition to TESCO and
Sainsbury's(Graham,Ziegert,Capitano,2015).
Influence of Politics
Personal factors
In these factors, individuals working in an organisation is more concerned towards their
achievement and they are least interested in attainment of organisational goal. Employees of
Waitrose Limited are less interested in satisfying their individual needs. They trust the
organisation and work hard for the attainment of goals of Waitrose Limited. The employees
believe that for an individual success attainment of organisation goal is must. Waitrose Limited
offers various incentives and benefits to their employees do that they stay concentrated towards
the company.
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