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

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1. Organisation's culture, power and politics influence individual and team behaviour and
performance................................................................................................................................4
M1. Critically analyse how organisation's culture, politics and power influences individual
and team performance and behaviour.........................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P2. Content and process motivational theories and techniques enables accomplishment of
organisational goals in an effective way.....................................................................................7
M2. Critically evaluate how to influence individual and team behaviour through the effective
application of theories, concepts and models of motivation.....................................................11
D1. Critically evaluate the relationship between organisational culture, power, politics and
motivation with justified recommendations.............................................................................12
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
P3. Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.........................12
M3. Analyse relevant team and team development theories....................................................14
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
P4. Application of concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour.............................14
M4. Evaluate how organisational behaviour concepts and philosophies influences behaviour
in both positive and negative manner.......................................................................................15
D2. Critically analyse the relevancy of team development theories in the context of OB
concepts and theories that influences the behaviour.................................................................16
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................16
REFERNCES:...............................................................................................................................17
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................17
Online:......................................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Organizational Behavior or OB can be defined as a study of human behaviour or the
interface between human behaviour and the organisation. The principles of the study of OB are
mainly applied to run the business in a smooth way (Adeoye, 2019). The concepts of OB
contains the areas of research dedicated to increasing job satisfaction, enhancing job
performance, encouraging leadership, promoting innovation and also a foundation of
organisational human resources. It determines the progress and stability of an organization. The
report is based on the Sainsbury Plc which is famous as the second largest supermarket chain in
UK. It has 16% shares of the supermarket sector. In 1869, the company was established by the
John James Sainsbury. It has three divisions, Sainsbury's supermarket Ltd., Argos and Banks
(Balwant and Et.al., 2019). The following report includes topics such as organisation's culture,
power and politics influence individual and team members, motivational theories that enables
achievement of organisational objectives. It also describes how effective team is differ from
ineffective team. It is also discussed with organisational behaviour concepts and philosophies.
TASK 1
P1. Organisation's culture, power and politics influence individual and team behaviour and
performance.
Organisational behaviour influences individual and team behaviour as well as their
performance are affected directly by the workplace' culture, power and politics. Organisational
culture is a discipline of collective principles and beliefs that helps to form the behavioural
patterns of workers within the organisation. Workplace culture may also be explained as an
initiative that differs the efforts and contribution of the structural members and delivers a
common acknowledgement of how and what is to be attained, how objectives are inter-
connected and how every employee might accomplish aims (Berraies and Rejeb, 2019). If
workplace culture suits with the dynamic factors of environment then it can leads to higher
productivity.
Classification of organisational culture:
Charles Handy divided the workplace culture into various sections that have a direct
influence on the Sainsbury's Plc: