Impact of Culture, Power and Politics on Employee Performance

Organizational Behaviour

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BOODY...............................................................................................................................3
TASK 1:...........................................................................................................................................3
LO1:.................................................................................................................................................3
P1: Impact of culture, power and politics on employee performance.........................................3
M1: Critical analysis....................................................................................................................5
LO2:.................................................................................................................................................6
P2: Motivational theories.............................................................................................................6
M2: Critical analysis of Motivational theories............................................................................8
TASK 2:...........................................................................................................................................9
LO3:.................................................................................................................................................9
P3- Effective teams V/S Ineffective teams..................................................................................9
M3- Relevant team and group development theories................................................................10
LO 4:..............................................................................................................................................10
P4- Concepts and Philosophies of OB.......................................................................................10
M4- Theories influencing behaviour.........................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is the analysis of individual’s behaviour within a organization, this
is done for developing effective organizational structure such that organizational employees are
able to collaborate their efforts for achieving a common organizational goal. IKEA is a
multinational furniture brand which provides high quality products at an affordable pricing to its
customers. Analysis of influence of work culture, organizational politics and power on employee
performance is done in this report. Evaluation of various motivational theories for motivating
individuals and team members is also done in report. Various effective team development
theories are also evaluated with that implementation of organizational behaviour at various
organizational situations of IKEA is also analysed in the report.
MAIN BOODY
TASK 1:
LO1:
P1: Impact of culture, power and politics on employee performance
Culture-
Organizational culture is the collection of several organizational factors which
contribute in achieving organizational goal, it is important for IKEA because it is the way which
decides the work flow within the organization. Following is the French and Raven method which
best describe organizational culture.
Power-
In this type of culture only a few limited employee of organization are responsible for
decision making due to which other only have to follow them, this type of culture will give
IKEA a high level of command over organizational activities (McShane and Glinow, 2017).
Role-
In this type of work culture responsibilities are given to employees on the basis of
roles which they are playing in organizational activities. This traditional way of working will
motivate employees to increase their working capabilities because their position within
organization.
Task-

Organizational teams are made within IKEA such that specific targets are allotted to
employees and then they have to self analyse their performance such that they are able to active
their targets. In this type matrix structure is also formed in which employees can report to two or
more heads which will reduce the problem solving time and high creativity is also achieved
(Tasselli, Kilduff and Landis, 2018).
Person-
This type of culture is more efficient in small scale industries because in this each
employee is a head of its own and can work in such a way that IKEA is able to achieve its
organizational goals.
Power-
Organizational power is the way in which employees influence the actions of other
employees; this influencing is based on many factors. Following are the different types of French
and raven forms of organizational power.
Coercive power-
Coercive power means organizational decisions are forced on employees such that they
have to follow them, with this organizational culture IKEA can make sure that their changes for
improving company’s performance are efficiently implemented (Kanfer and Chen, 2016).
Reward power-
As the name suggest this power is related to rewarding employees for the excellent
performance, thus employees are tend to put more efforts in improving their performance such
that they are able to achieve higher benefitsLegitimate power-
This is the organizational structure wise power in this employees at higher position of
IKEA have the ability of governing activities of other employees on the bases of power which
they are having within organization. This power arises only when a clear organizational structure
is available, thus to implement this power within organization IKEA has to develop clear
organizational structure (Gelfand and et.al, 2017). Expert power-
Expert power arises in employee only when they are able to completely understand the
working procedure of IKEA and capable of fulfilling the organizational requirements. This
power is established only when employees are able to communicate and able to share their
experience. This is most usefully power because it develops efficient team bonding and
employees are able to share work related issues with each other such that with proper