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

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 The organisation's culture, politics and power influence team performance.........................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P2 Motivation theories aids in achieving organisation goal.......................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Analyse of effective and ineffective team.............................................................................7
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P4 Various philosophies of organisation behaviour within enterprise to given situation of
business.....................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is set of activities which involves interaction of individual in the
different groups. It is a systematic approach of knowledge to study how individual behave and
work in the organisation. It is very important to study organisation behaviour as it provide detail
study of employee work performance. This concept help to enhance performance of the
company. It builds strong connection with team and management. The proper culture or
environment of entity can improve behaviour of individual . The chosen company in this report
is Sainsbury. It is second biggest supermarket chain in UK, founded in 1869. They are providing
variety of quality products at most affordable price to their target costumer. This report provides
the details about how organisation's culture, politics and power affect the performance of their
employee (Bachkirov, 2019). It also include the approaches and theories to motivate employee
in achieving organisation goal. This approach enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of
enterprise.
TASK 1
P1 The organisation's culture, politics and power influence team performance.
Organisation's culture- The culture of organisation strongly influence the behaviour of
individual or team members. In context of Sainsbury they build great cultural environment for
their employee to work (Carvalho, 2019). They believe in supporting their talented employee to
ensure maximum costumer satisfaction. So that best workforce will provide better costumer
experience. They practice handy's cultural model to enhance performance of their employee.
 Power culture- In power culture only few members have authority to tackle managerial
decision for whole organisation. In sainsbury they follow some set of rules and
organisation. The authoritative person decide what type of work is done by whom. This
will help in decision making of this company very quickly. There is a little bureaucracy
in this entity.
 Role culture- Sainsbury practice hierarchical bureaucracy in which power is driven from
the position of the person. In this system each members have very well knowledge about
its role and responsibility. This is highly control structure that is defined properly.

 Task culture- In this model company form the team and solve some problems which are
particular related to one subject. In this system power is origin from expert because this
require highly expertise. They follow matrix model, where there is no source of single
power. Team can set up their own goal or objective.
 Person culture- The power is lies in such group where members have similar training,
background and expertise. In this structure individual believe that they are fantastic and
unique to the entity.
It is essential for the Sainsbury to develop positive work environment and culture that
improve effectiveness of their workforce.
Organisation's politics – Organisation politics develop negative impact on team
members and the performance of entity. It also consist of hazardous effect that is job satisfaction
perception of employee and their commitment. The productivity and performance is also affect
by organisation's politics (Cheng, Chang and Lee, 2020). Almost every enterprise faces internal
politics. There are mainly four types of politics take place in an organisation that is the weed,
wood, high ground, rocks. The weed consist of informal structure and personal influence. It
develop naturally without any efforts. The wood consist of hidden assumptions, unspoken
routine that every organisation includes. The highly ground includes formal authority with the
structure of organisation. The rocks combines of interaction of individual and formal
authoritative source along with expertise. The enterprise will get affected by the following ways-
 Demotivation of employee- Sometimes the careless employee are more talkative with
manger and take advantage in the perks, rewards whereas hard working employee who
are less talkative will not get that much rewards. This will turn as demotivation factor for
the talented employee.
 Decrease in the productivity- Those employee who are engage in organisational politics
will not focus on their work and will not provide that much attention towards in
achieving company goal. So it act as a decrease in a productivity of the employee.
 Ambience of entity- Politics will destroy ambience of the entity. It create negativity at
the workplace. The non performing workers will create disturbance for performing
employee and discourage talented workers by making fun of them (Takawira, 2020). The
internal politics will create nonsense structure in the organisation.