Ways Organization's Culture, Power, and Politics Influence Individual and Team Behavior

Organization
Behaviour

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Ways by which organization’s culture, power, politics influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2 Ways how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve goals.............................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
P3 What makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.........................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P4 Concept of organizational behaviour.................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is about how individuals act in an association. It is a human
apparatus for human advantage. It applies comprehensively to conduct of individuals in a wide
range of association. The concept of organizational behaviour consists of two components such
as, nature of the individual and nature of an organization (Colquitt and et. al., 2011). This report
is about A David and Co Limited which is a UK based company. This organization is famous for
its food wholesaler of fruits and vegetable supplier. Company offers full range of fresh fruits,
vegetables, ready prepared products, bakery items, etc. to its consumers. The organizational
culture of company also motivates employees to perform their tasks with of reaching goals. In
this report, it is also discussed about how organization culture, politics or power influence
performance of individual and team behaviour in organization. Along with this, some
philosophies and concepts of organizational behaviour are also used by company to achieve their
set-goals and objectives.
TASK 1
P1 Ways by which organization’s culture, power, politics influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
In business, power and politics are enormous extent to decide the development of
business and constant achievement of the organization. Power and politics are related with
administration and initiative of the association. Power and politics are two principle components
which use in the organization these are can be either reason for downfall or achievement of the
organization. The authoritative administration and initiative practices thoroughly rely upon the
power and legislative issues. Organisational management and governmental issues includes
assets, cash, individuals, time and expert. Power is built up by social duties, conduct,
organisational culture, and conduct or management groups. Also, legislative issues is concerned
with culture into the association, individual structure, and administrative positions. These three
components’ organization’s culture, power and politics also influence team behaviour and
performance of individual in A David and Co Limited (Pinder, 2014).
Organisation’s culture
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The organization culture impacts performance of team which depends upon “decision
making” and “reward structure”. There are four types of organization culture which impact on
individual, team behaviour and performances in A David and Co Limited which are as follows:
 Creative company culture: This culture is about self-articulation. This means that
leaders of enable their employees to use their inventiveness, and encourage them to bring
new ideas. This hierarchical structure is adjusted around self-sorting out groups and
cooperative task gatherings. In context of A David and Co Limited, this type of
"Innovative culture “makes workers of company feel confidence and loyal towards the
organization which helps them to achieve their goals and perform well.
 Collaborative company culture: This sort of hierarchical culture depends vigorously on
collaboration, harmony and basic leadership dependent on a common perspective of
wanted outcomes. In case of A David and Co Limited their main attention is on
employees benefit and fulfilment of their demand as to achieve their objective.
 Competitive company culture: This culture is all about success and to met goals with
company. In this, company A David and Co Limited depends upon professional
employees which are required to accomplish objectives of company effectively.
 Controlled company culture: It requires order and arrangement dependent on clear
information driven objectives and targets. Frequently it is focused on fund or assembling,
In context of A David and Co Limited, organization depend enthusiastically on yearly
marketable strategies and key execution estimations. This is also beneficial for company
to achieve goals (Wagner and Hollenbeck, 2014).
Power
Power is the capacity to motivate others to change their conduct regardless of whether
they don't wish to do as such. It is concept in which employees work under powers such as
manager and leader which inspire and guide their to complete their work in allotted time frame.
This also influence individual, team behaviour and performance of workers of A David and Co
Limited to accomplish goals. In this some bases power are as follows:
 Reward power: This power is basically the intensity of a manager of company to give
some kind of remuneration or incentives to a worker to influence them to act of perform
their tasks well to achieve their goals. These powers also hold by the administrator of A
David and Co Limited to improvement in performance of workers and achieve goals.
 Coercive power: Coercive power is the capacity of a manager of A David and Co
Limited to compel a worker to pursue a request by undermining the employee with
discipline if the worker does not follow the request. The most critical idea to comprehend
about coercive power is that it utilizes the use of power (Robbins and Judge, 2014).
 Legitimate power: It is a formal power which means resources such as, knowledge,
technical skills, etc. This power comes from coercive power and hold by manager of
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