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

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Influence of organisation's culture, politics and power on the team behaviour and performance
Content theory and process theory of motivation .......................................................................6
Effective team vs ineffective team...............................................................................................9
Concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour...........................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Behaviour of organization towards the employees is considered as a reflection of success that
organization is expected to achieve. This means that the culture or politics or power environment
of company plays an very important role in determining the performance of employees in the
company. If the company is a follower of good environment then it will definitely achieve
success and growth. Like the company's culture motivation of employees is also a very important
element in the company's success. Company always have to adopt various practices and mode
for raising the level of motivation among employees. However, accomplishment of task and
objective is highly dependent upon the fact that whether the employees of company are efficient
or not. Thus, efficiency of employees plays an important role in accomplishment of company's
objective. Likewise, adoption of company's philosophies and approaches helps the company to
achieve its objective along with meeting employees satisfaction. This project will highlight the
impact of company's culture, power, politics and motivation policies over performance of
employees. Apart from that differentiation between efficient and inefficient employees along
with company's philosophies and concepts are also being discussed in this project.
Organization's overview:
Boots is one of the famous company of UK that deals in beauty, retailing and pharmacy
products. In addition, of UK it also operates its business in various other countries including
Ireland, Italy, Norway and various other. The headquarter of Boots is in Nottingham, UK. It was
founded by John Boots in 1849. It operates its business with a purpose of making the life of
people better which they have never though (Championing everyone’s right to feel good, 2020)
Influence of organisation's culture, politics and power on the team behaviour and performance
Organisational behaviour refers the study of human behaviour, how humans behave and
acts in the organisation (Balwant, 2018). It can use in the organisation to boost the confidence
and morale of the employees so that they can perform their job effectively in the organisation.
Organisational culture
Organisational culture shows the beliefs, assumptions and values which guides the
employees. Culture includes the vision, mission, norms, rules, values, assumptions and beliefs.
Boots is the largest chain of retail chemist, healthcare and cosmetics in UK. They follow a
hierarchy in their organisation from the CEO to the floor staff. They don't accept any kind of
discrimination in their organisation, whether it is related to gender, Age, community and

religion. Handy's theory has defined the organisational culture in power, role, task and person
(Handy’s Motivation Theory, 2020).
Power culture
The influence of power shows the capabilities and capacity of any person who can
influence and effect the behaviour of another person within an organisation. But in Boots they
don't accept any kind of power in their organisation. However, power has been given to manager
so that they can guide the employees towards their task and goal. Employees and workers are
usually judged as per their works and what they achieved in Boots. The higher management
can't use their power to threat someone. Owing to power, the higher authority and management
can impact and influenced the team by using their power, they can give more work to any
individual and can allot less work to others due to power higher management can do partiality in
the promotional activities as well.
Role culture
Boot follows role culture as well in their company and workplace which means the
company believes on rules. All the employees of Boots are assigned and delegated different roles
and responsibilities as per their skills, qualification and interest so that company can bring out
best from them (Miao and et.al, 2020). as per the different roles employee perform their work ,
this will help them to increase their skills and knowledge, so role culture put positive impact on
the individual. Role culture is beneficial for the employees of Boots as well, because they get
different challenges and growth opportunity as well and employees have to take ownership of
their work through which, they can develop leadership quality in them.
Task culture
Boot sometimes follow the task culture whenever they face any big problem so the
employees are divided into teams to sort out the problem which the organisation is facing. To
build a team, the top management of Boots divide the employees who are having similar interest
and knowledge so that they can get the solution quickly.
Person culture
Boots don't follow person culture in their organisation. Person culture refers the situation
inn the organisation where employees feel that they are superior then the organisation and they
are more conscious about themselves rather than the organisation. For boots, their organisation