Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance....................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organisational context..................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.............................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context
and given business situation...................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of human behaviour is it reflect the interaction
between the behaviour of the individual and the organisation. It is important aspect which needs
to be understood human behaviour in the workplace so that they can determine their
communication leadership and performance and other factors(Petts, 2017). It is the the term
which help in understanding the various situations and conditions. As does the chosen
organisation for this report, it is the the largest supermarket which is founded in 1949 and deals
in a variety of product like home product, clothing and many more. This report will cover the
explanation of relationship among the power, culture and politics. Moreover, it also analyse the
employee behaviour by using various motivational theories so that they can attain their goals for
the long-term sustainability in the market.
TASK 1
Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance
Organisational behaviour is the aspects which ehlps in meeting and measuring the behaviy of
the employees within the organisation. It also includes the various factors that affects the
functions of the individual and these are power, culture and politics. Power is defined as a
leadership that is hold by the leader in order to manage the work in an organisation. Culture is
defined believe norms and attitude that is followed by the organisation. Politics is referred as a
part of work is that occurs due to the negative attitude of some employees that are inactive in
their performance. In context to Asda, there examine the power, culture and politics and their
impact on the the individual and team that is explained as follows:
Culture
It refers to the aspect which reflect the functionality of an organisation it can be negative or
positive. When the individual is performing their geography then it reflects the culture within the
organisation. In context to Asda, there are different types of culture which is explained as
follows:
 Power culture– In this type of culture, there are different rules and regulation which
reflected within the organisation and these are formulated for the employees so that they
can perform their task in an effective manner. In Context to Asda, they are adopting this
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power so that they can make the quick decision in order to attain the objective of
business.
 Task Culture- it refers to the concert in which the employees are getting a specific task
as per their ability to that the business can be operated and and smooth manner. Task is
the important aspect that helped the Asda to get their effective results in the various
operations.
 Person culture– In terms of this culture, people all the employees are working in an
organisation in an unique and they are emphasising on hiring The talented employees so
that they can perform their job role in an appropriate manner.
 Role culture- it is the culture in which guidelines is being included so that the manager
of the Asda is focuses on controlling every individual so that they can understand their
duties and responsibilities in an appropriate manner.
Politics
It is the negative aspects which is created by the organisation which reduce the effectiveness
of their employees but can achieve the goal of the organisation by creating negative environment
and misbehaving with their employees. This capture the attention of their workers and distract
them from their overall working. In context to there are various aspect which is being affected
that are explained as below:
 Decreased Performance and productivity- when the employees are engaging
themselves in the and productive stuff that do not make any sense and also reduce the
effectiveness and the productivity of their performance.
 Employees are demotivated- Due to occurrence of the negative environment at the
workplace and most of the employees are pulled by their senior level manager that will
hurt them and also effect their concentration power on the specific work.
 Politics reduced workplace environment- Politics developed the negative working
atmosphere that leads to reduction in the performance and the moral of the employees
and create various obstacle in getting effectiveness within the organisation.
Power
It is defined as a strength that is being used by the employee in order to manage their work
progress within the organisation. In context to Asda there are various subordinate which are
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