Organisational Behaviour: Impact of Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation Techniques and Theories

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Impact of culture, politics and power at workplace..............................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2. Meaning, techniques and theories of motivation..................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3. An effective team is different from an ineffective team.......................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P4. Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour.....................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................14
Online:.......................................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is an important concept within the workplace. It relates with the
academic study of how employees interact and communicate within the teams or organisation as
a whole. The concepts and principles of the organisational behaviour study deals in such
attempts which aims to operate business in a more effective way. In the organisational setting,
this study helps managers to develop accurate predictions about the individual behaviour, but it
is equally important for the workers as it aids in clarifying their personal aspirations and
acknowledge the factors that are influencing them. For this report, the company which is
considered is Waitrose (Al-Dhaafri and Alosani, 2021). It is a British supermarket brand,
announced in the year 1904 as Waite, Rose and Taylor which is abbreviated to Waitrose. The
head offices of such supermarket brand are situated in Bracknell and Victoria, United Kingdom.
The organisation has 332 outlets across the UK. Also, it has world-wide business operations,
covering 52 countries. In an organization, the individual and team performance can be influenced
by various factors such as culture, politics, along with power. It will also evaluate the content
and process motivation theories, along with motivational techniques in the business context.
Later, it will also show how an effective is different from ineffective team. In the end, there will
be some philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour within the business context.
TASK 1
P1. Impact of culture, politics and power at workplace.
The workplace culture can be understood as a system of shared valued, beliefs, along with
attitude which is built within a company and regulates employees’ behaviour. It relates as the
fundamental values, assumptions and ways of interaction which contribute to incorporated social
and psychological environment of an organisation.
Handy' model of organisational culture:
 Power culture: In this type of work culture, only certain people in the company have
power to make rules and decisions. These are generally top level authorities in the
organisation and where subordinates are bounded to adhere all the rules and instructions
of high level authorities (Al-Henzab, Tarhini and Obeidat, 2018). In case of Waitrose,
people at managerial position are tend to have power to take right decision for the welfare
of employees that makes them positive towards the company.

 Task culture: In this type of culture, task is given on the basis of employees’ ability,
knowledge and skills. In chosen company, teams are developed as per the employee’s
qualification and address all the issues and attain goals of organisation.
 Person culture: In personal culture, employees are allowed to take decisions for the
goodness and benefit of their own in the workplace. It helps in increasing individual
performance as they have a right to make decisions.
 Role culture: In role culture, the roles and responsibilities of each employee is defined as
per their interest and qualification (Bratton, 2020). It helps in increasing overall
productivity of the business as all the members understand their work and responsibility.
In chosen organisation, the role culture is adopted in the business as it supports in creating
friendly environment for the employees while resolving conflicts and issues arises between
employers and employees as all the employee work self-reliantly to contribute in
accomplishment of organisational goals. Also, the best performance is appreciated and rewarded
by prizes and promotion.
Power and politics:
Power in the organisation can be defined as a capacity or controlling behaviour of an
individual that affect employees’ behaviour within the workplace. Positive power defines when
the higher authorities utilise their power over employees without any kind of biasness, while,
negative power defined as the high level authority sometimes promote favouritism as well as
promote only their favourite employees.
Politics can be defined as a variety of activities related with the exploitation of influence
strategies to increase individual or organisational interest. Politics in business is understood as
the use of power by management for bringing changes at work. It helps in attaining benefits that
cannot be a complete without having controlling behaviour.
 Positive impact of politics: If the high level authorities do not play politics and provide
rewards to workers on the basis of prayer performance will create motivation among
people and also increase their satisfaction level (Corvellec, 2018). Through such politics,
employees will perform better and will be loyal towards the Waitrose.
 Negative impact of politics: If the top level authority promote favouritism, then, it creates
negative influence on the employees and they will not like to work in the company for