Organizational Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation, and Team Effectiveness

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Culture, politics and power influencing individual and team behaviour and performance
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P 2 Content and process theories of motivation and their effectiveness in achieving goals. .5
P 3 Effective team as opposed to ineffective team.................................................................8
P 4 Concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
The organizational behaviour is defined as the study of the behaviour of the employees
working in the company in order to evaluate their performance and the activities of the business.
This includes the study of the human behaviour within the organization and in accordance to the
culture prevalent within the company (Buchanan and Huczynski, 2019). For the present report
the company chosen is Primark. This is a British owned Irish company dealing as a fashion
retailer. The company was founded by Arthur Ryan in the year 1969 and is headquartered in
Dublin.
The present report will start by outlining the impact of culture, politics and power on the
individual and team behaviour within the company. Further it will discuss on the fact that how
content and process theories of motivation help the company in making effective
accomplishment of the goals of business. Next the different team development theory will be
discussed and how the effective team is different from ineffective team will be discussed. In the
end, the concept and different philosophies of organizational behaviour will be highlighted.
MAIN BODY
P 1 Culture, politics and power influencing individual and team behaviour and performance
Organization is a blend of different cultures and because of this it is very necessary for
the company to maintain all the different cultures within the company. This is majorly because of
the reason that people coming from different cultures require different things and for this the
company needs to take care of the culture. Also, if the company do not consider the culture then
the culture of the company will not be suitable for the employees and this will result in degrading
the performance of the employees. For analysing the culture of the company Primark uses
Handy’s culture model.
This is a model which help the organization in dividing the culture on different basis.
This basis is discussed in the following points connected below-
Power culture- this culture states that the major decision- making power is in the hands
of few people and this impacts the performance of the employees. This is majorly because of the
reason that the decision is taken by a few people and this demotivates the other person as they
are not involved in the decision-making process (Wilson, 2017).
Role culture- this is another culture which can be followed within Primark. Under this
culture every employee knows that what are their role and responsibility within the business and

what work they have to do. This includes proper chain of command where every employee
knows that from where they have to take decision and where they have to report.
Person culture- this is a type of culture under which the employees of Primark feels that
they are superior then the company (Barry and Wilkinson, 2016). Under this type of culture, the
employees are more individualistic and thinks about the achievement of the personal goals and
not focus on the goals of the company.
Task culture- this is the culture under which the main focus is on the formation of team
so that the goals and objectives of the business are easily accomplished as the work will take
place in the team work.
The culture followed by Primark is the combination of task and role culture. This is
mainly because of the reason that both these cultures will help Primark in accomplishing the
objectives of the business. This is majorly because of the reason that the role culture helps
company in identifying and distributing the role and responsibility in accordance with the
capability and speciality of the employee. And in task culture the more emphasis is laid on the
formation of team in achieving the objectives.
Power- the power is defined as the deciding power of anything. In context to business the
power is defined as the power to take the decisions for anything taking place within the
company. For managing the power within the company Primark takes help of the model of
power by French and Raven. Under this model the power is divided in five different basis which
are the positional power and the personal power. Further under the positional power there are
three different power. These powers are like reward power, coercive power and legitimate
power. On the flip side the personal power are the expert power and the referent power. The
positional power is the one which is gained because of the position with the organizational
structure. In contrast to this the personal power is the one which is experienced by the person
because of some special knowledge of some key feature.
Primark mainly focuses in the personal power. This is mainly because of the reason that
the personal power is achieved by a person because of their special knowledge and if some
employee gets this power then it also motivates other person to perform better (King and Lawley,
2016). This is mainly because of the reason that if they will perform better than their knowledge
will increase and this has a chance that they also get the power. Thus, this increases the