Impact of Organisation Power, Politics, and Culture on Individual and Team Performance

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Effect of organisation power, politics & culture on individual as well s team performance.
.....................................................................................................................................................3
M1 Analyse the culture, politics and power which influence individual as well as team
behaviour ..............................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P2 Influence individuals and teams to achieve the goals in an organisation..............................5
M2 determines the behavioural motivation theory based on the others......................................8
D1 Assess the relationship between culture,politics,power and motivation that helps
organisation as well as team members.......................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Evaluating what makes different an effective team from ineffective team...........................8
M3 Analyse team and group development theories..................................................................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P4 Use philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour with firm situation.................11
M4 Briefly determine how philosophies and concepts of OB affect behaviour.......................12
D2 Evaluate team development theories in context to OB including concepts and philosophies
which affects behaviour in work place: ...................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is the process of studying the human behaviour as well as attitude
within an individual. It is understanding the characteristic of employees to motivate them
according to their level of performance. In addition to this, it develops the faith and healthy
relationship among the employees in order to increase the productivity of an organisation. In this
report Unilever company is specified which deals in consumer goods and owns over 400 brands.
This report involves the impact of organisation on the basis of power, politics and culture along
with theories of motivation so that it could achieve goals and objectives of a company
(Borkowski, 2016). Motivation is defined as desire and experience which designs to willing to do
work and also achieved the tasks. Furthermore, it includes the differences among effective and
ineffective team as well as philosophies of organisation behaviour. The description of various
factors is classified as follows:
TASK 1
P1. Effect of organisation power, politics & culture on individual as well s team performance.
It is defined as the study of behaviour which could effects on the attitude and behaviour
of a particular employees in order to gain the efficiency and productivity of an organisation
behaviour. In context to Unilever, it is the one of the largest businesses in the world which deals
in the consumer goods. This company has the further existence in politics, culture and power
which is described as follows:
Culture: the culture of an organisation behaviour includes beliefs, values and traditions
of employees which could directly impact on the behaviour and their level of presentation(Chen,
Chen and Sheldon 2016). There are types of culture which is represented as under:
Person culture: The culture is refers to the employees as well as team members is very
essential for every organisation. In addition to this, the culture of an organisation behaviour
would affect the efficiency of employees that could achieve their targeted goals.
Role culture: The employees are allotted to their performed duties and responsibilities.
Furthermore, an organisation has all the powers on the actions which are performed whether the
role culture is being accompanied. This lead to reduction in the disputes within the working
environment.

With reference to Unilever it follows role culture of every employee which is based on
their skills and abilities in order to fulfil the goals and objectives of employees.
Power: It is defined as the capabilities of a particular personnel which encourages the
presence of team members in the working environment. In context to Unilever, decisions which
are undertaken based on the power of all members has kept on top hierarchy of a company.
Various types of power which is described as follows:
Reward power: this emphasis on the rewards and benefits of a particular individual on
the basis of their performance in an organisation. Further, this could helps the employees and
staff members to aid their self confidence in workforce in order to gain their productivity and
effectiveness of the employees(McShane and Glinow 2017).
Coercive power: This power brought downward the self confidence(team spirit) of
individuals that lead to demoralise the productivity and effectiveness within the organisation.
With reference to Unilever, this company could follow the reward power in order to
provide the benefits and rewards for the employees. This company gives the pecuniary rewards
that lead to motivation towards the personnel that could attain the goals and mission of a
company.
Politics: It is refers to the actions which took part in the interconnections between the
employees within the working environment. The various types of politics that are discussed as
follows:
Positive politics: it is defined as the team members which could increase the endeavour
in order to attain the desirable outcomes. This determines the good behaviour within their team
spirit.
Negative politics: it refers to negative politics which develops the negative situations
within the workplace. Further, it lead to reduction by framing their positive relations with the
individuals in order to carry faith between all the personnels.
In context to Unilever, this company offers the positive politics for transferring the
outcomes so that they work properly in their given tasks(Vibert 2017)
Hofstede's Cultural Dimension Theory: This theory is developed by Green Hofstede
which could displays on the culture and beliefs of a personnel behaviour. It is described as
knowing the several cultures in an organisation. It further involves various cultural concepts
which is discussed as under: