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

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1) Influence of organisation culture, power, and politics on individual and team performance
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M1 Impact of power, culture and politics on individual and team behaviour and performance 5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2) Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques,
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context......................................6
M2 Critical evaluation of influence of organisation on behaviour of others.........................8
D1. Critical evaluation of the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation8
P3) Demonstrate an understanding of what makes an effective team, as opposed to an
ineffective team......................................................................................................................9
M3 Examine relevant team and group development theories to support the development of
dynamic cooperation............................................................................................................10
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................12
P4) Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour.........................................................12
M4 Justify and evaluate a range of concepts and philosophies in how they inform and
influence behaviour in both positive and negative ways......................................................12
D2 Critically examine and evaluate the relevancy of team development theories in the
circumstance of OB concepts and philosophies that influence behaviour in the workplace.13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviours relates to established procedure which is used to evaluate
performance of work in lieu of business operations. It is conducive for optimization of business
operations that behaviour while working aligns with professional standards. The report below is
presented in relation to organisational behaviour in Jet2Holidays which is one of the most
successful travel agencies operating out of united kingdom. Jet2holidays provides world class
customer service whilst maintaining highest professional ethics. The companies head quarters are
located at Leeds United Kingdom with Stephen Paul Heapy as its CEO. The report below
contains consequences of culture, politics and power on behaviour of organisation and many
ways to keep the morale of employees high.
P1) Influence of organisation culture, power, and politics on individual and team performance
Influence of power on team and individual performance
Decision makers in any organisation exercise power to make employees carry out jobs in
an manner which is effective and efficient. They could do this through variety of ways such as
yearly appraising performance of employees or incentives and rewards which could be provided
to employees if they perform up to a certain standard.(Bucher, 2018.) These performance
standards also dictate who is going to be promoted. There are various ways through which
managers at Jet 2 Holidays exert power to influence teams and individual members.
 Coercive Tactics: This kind of power connotes adoption of coercive tactics to make
employees perform better. The managers could stop promotions, withhold incentive
payment or downright fire employees if they don't perform up to standards. The decision
makers at Jet 2 holidays use these powers when certain employees are falling
significantly behind on their performance levels, These coercive tactics can make
employees alert and conscious which could improve their performance and thus achieve
conducive business outcomes.
 Reward Tactic: This kind of power has positive connotation attached to itself as to
improve performance mangers rely upon positive behaviour modification technique. As
employees see that their well being could improve by improving their performance.
Small rewards could be provided to average performers and big reward could be provided
to exceptional performers so employees are encouraged to perform better. Jet 2 Holidays

provides rewards such as vehicles, Paid for Holidays to exotic locations, monetary
benefits and various other rewards.(Buchanan, and Huczynski, 2019)
Influence of politics on individual and team
Politics at the workplace means mangers using their power to amplify undue attention or
popularity garnered from workers. Jet 2 Holidays Management has to contend with employees
who obtain conducive outcomes for themselves without paying attention to work. The impact of
politics in organisational behaviour of Jet 2 Holidays is provided below:
 Harmful consequences for productivity: Politics may spoil the ambience, employees
no longer feel that they are being judged by their performance rather they are getting
judged based on their political leverage at workplace. Due to these reasons people are
less inclined to work harder and productivity suffers.(Luthans, Luthans,and Luthans,
2021.)
 Contaminates Workplace: The workplace gets contaminated with falsehoods and non
reliable information amongst employees to a point where nothing gets done. Management
gets false portrayal of people and events. Due to this employees have high level of stress
due to metrics for keeping or succeeding at job would constantly be changing.
Influence of culture on individual and team
Workplace culture is collective beliefs, attitude and behavioural aspects shared by all in
individuals at workplace. If culture of a company is positive and healthy then productivity could
easily be achieved by employees.(Kanter, 2019)
 Power culture: This facet of workplace culture entails that, employees work on the basis
of directions received from central structure. Jet 2 holidays exercises more of a
decentralised structure with some powers being vested with centre. This provides them
with relative autonomy with central oversight to drive up productivity.(Pettigrew, and
McNulty, 2019)
 Role culture: This type of culture relates to various roles being assigned to employees
on the basis of their individual capabilities and talent which promotes teamwork.
 Individual centric culture: This type of culture focuses on individuality of people at
workplace. Due to which their individual capacities are focussed upon to drive growth