Organisational Behaviour: Impact of Culture, Politics and Power on Behaviour, Motivational Theories and Effective Teamwork

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others in an organisational
context..........................................................................................................................................1
Evaluation of content and process theories of motivation along with motivational techniques..1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................1
What makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...............................................1
Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context
and a given business situation......................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
The concept of organizational behaviour is generally the study of behaviours of human
within the organizational settings, the interface among the human behaviour and the organization
and organization itself. It is mainly defined as an organized study as well as the application of the
knowledge about how people and their groups can act among the organization where they work.
The behaviour of an organization is specifically based over the fundamental concepts that are
quite relevant to the nature of organization and people as well. In this, some of the basic
assumptions in the organizational behaviour like, differences among people, entire person,
behaviour is caused by, a person has dignity, enterprise are social systems, mutuality of interest
within organizational members as well as holistic behaviour of an organization. Here, the main
aim of developing the report is to effectively analyse the impact of culture, politics as well as the
power on the other's behaviour (Edwards, 2018). For doing the project, here is chosen
organization such as TESCO, which is one of the leading supermarket brand of the United
Kingdom operating across world. In this, the project can specifically analyse the impact of
organizational behaviour on people and the whole performance of the company. There is also a
discussion about various motivational theories in order to understand the specific behaviour as
well as the requirements of people that can impact their motivational activities. Furthermore, it
can also measure the motivational techniques for accomplishing the organizational goals and
objectives as well. Moreover, there is also a discussion about the concepts and philosophies in
perspectives with organizational behaviour for the chosen TESCO organization.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others in an organisational context.
The organizational behaviour can enable the company to gain the information or
understanding about personalities as well as the actions of worker. In this, there are several
elements which can influence the behaviour of an organization such as its policies, powers,
politics and culture as well. It can significantly influence the working of the workers and the
organization itself. While talking about TESCO, the organizational behaviour can significantly
identifies the ability as well as working approaches of their workers and staff as well. It can
imply their attitude as well as their determination to the accomplishment of their aims and
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objectives of organization. It can enable the organization to operate more effectively as well as
can keep a code of conduct and decorum to ensure the status within the company (Bogatyreva
and et. al., 2019). In addition to this, there are also several key pointers with aspect of
organizational behaviour and are as described below:
Influence of organizational culture on the behaviour of a person, the team and its performance: In
this, the culture of an organization depicts that a person can perform its job as well as can fulfil
the task that is assigned to them and the pathways of interaction as well as the communication
with one another. In addition to this, it can describe the propriety of the organization which
generally required to be maintained to set and comply with the specific organizational standards.
It generally involve several values, principles, customs and various other elements that can
illustrate the pathways of an operational activities in the organization. While talking about
TESCO, the culture of an organization can combine the efforts of its workforce collaboratively
as well as can ensure the proper guidance towards the workers. The company can generally
decide its culture that is based on various elements consisting the surroundings in which they can
operate, their aims and goals, their belief system as well as the management style of the
organization (Dekker, 2018). In context with TESCO, the organization is not concentrated over
the adherence to strict the levels as well as can implement a competitive culture where it can
stress on producing a friendly as well as a strong relations with the extrinsic parties in order to
enhance the sale turnover. The culture of an organization can impact the behaviour of the
workers in various manner that are mentioned below:
 It can effectively influence the working of workers as well as can define their
performance status. Having a proper culture of the organization can encourage a strong
team-working as well as can enhances entire performance of the organization.
 The workers are generally identified to work hard to maintain their effective standards of
company's culture in order to enhances their motivation levels. In addition to this, having
enhanced motivation levels can ensure enthusiasm in the work performance of a working
team.
 The culture of an organization can produces a discipline within the working of workers as
well as can aid in implementation of an organized team work.
 It can produces a sense of justice and equality by simply executing the appropriate rules
and principles as well.
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