Organisational Behaviour: Impact of Culture, Politics and Power on Individual Behaviour and Performance

Organisational
Behaviour

Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
P1- Evaluate how an organisation's culture, politics and power affects the behaviour and the
performance of an individual.......................................................................................................1
M1- Critically evaluate that how the culture, politics and power impacts the behaviour and
performance of an individual and its team...................................................................................3
P2- Analysis the content and process theories of motivational techniques which enables
effective achievement of goals in an organisation.......................................................................4
M2- Critically analyse that how the behaviour of others are affected through the effective
application of behavioural motivational theories and models.....................................................6
D1- Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation which
enhances the teams and organisation to achieve their goals........................................................6
P3- Discuss that what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.....................6
M3- Evaluate the relevant team and group development theories which support the
development of cooperation in the organisation..........................................................................8
P5- Apply the concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour in an organisation.........8
M4- Analyse that how concepts and philosophies of OB affects the behaviour in an
organisation..................................................................................................................................9
D2- Critically evaluate and analyse the relevance of team development theories, concepts and
philosophies which impacts the behaviour in the workplace to encourage their business
performance and productivity......................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisation culture refers to the way of behaving in an organisation. Workforce motivation is
the energy level and the amount of creativity of an employee which has to bring in an
organisation on a daily basis. The organisational culture affects the motivation of workers in an
organisation (Oh and Han, 2020). If the organisational culture is better, it provides a higher level
of motivation to the workers. In this report, we analysis the organisational culture and workforce
motivation of Marks and Spencer which is a retail multinational company of clothes, food and
home products. This organisation is founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in 1884
and its headquarters is in London, UK.
MAIN BODY
P1- Evaluate how an organisation's culture, politics and power affects the behaviour and the
performance of an individual.
Organisational culture- It refers to the collection of expectations, values and practices which
guides the actions of the team. It is one of the top indicators of employee's satisfaction in an
organisation and one of the main reason of workers to stay in their job. If there is great culture in
the organisation, it will improve the performance of the workers. Almost, all of the successful
business have a good and functional culture in their firm. It influences the behaviour and
performance of workers-
 By having a great organisational culture in the firm, it appreciates the performance of
the team members and brings a culture of engagement in the employees.
 It also help the workers to value their talent and retain as a top performers in the firm.
 It provides a relaxed working environment which brings excitement in the workers
about their workplace.
 It allows the workers to feel responsible and work towards to achieve their goals.
 It improves the creativity, enthusiasm and efficiency of the employees.
 It focuses on the continuous process of improvement of the employee's and brings the
commitment and self-confidence among the workers (Chión, Charles and Morales,
2019).

 It provides a continuous feedback which can be easily understood by the peoples and a
competitive advantage in the market.
 If it is used by the Marks and Spencer, it provides an independent and responsible
employees which increases the rate of turnover of their firm.
Organisational politics- Organisational politics refers to the agenda and self-interest of an
individual in the firm to achieve its objectives. It is the activities and tactics which are to be
undertaken to retain personal control in the organisation. Generally, it is the bad thing which
leads to negativity and loss of productivity in the workplace but sometimes, the firm needs to
handle the conflicting agendas in their enterprise (Cross and Carbery, 2022). There are some
effects of organisational politics which are discussed-
 It lowers the output of an employee and delays the work of an organisation which leads
to decreases the overall productivity of the workers.
 It spoils the focus or concentration on the work and if any worker involved in the
politics, it bounds to make mistakes in the work.
 It provides a negative environment at the workplace and spoils the relationships among
the individuals.
 Organisational politics lose the interest and changes the attitude of the workers.
 If the employees are playing politics in the organisation, they always look for an
opportunity to tarnish the image of the fellow workers which leads to demotivated the
employees or performers.
 It is difficult for an individual to confide with their fellow workers because of the fear
of getting secrets leaked which can increases the stress of the employees.
 If the organisational politics is there in the firm, the superiors doesn't pass the correct
information and leads to the employees indulged in the politics.
 If the organisational politics is there in Marks and Spencer, it brings negative
environment and decreases the productivity of the employees which results in decrease
in their revenues.
Organisational power- It is the ability which affects the behaviour of another stakeholder in the
organisation. It is beneficial for those firms where the leaders assign the tasks to different
workers and makes them to do those tasks. It provides a sense of direction to the organisational
goals. There are some types of power in the organisation which are-