Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on Organizational Behaviour

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Culture, politics and power and its influence over team and individual behaviour and their
performance............................................................................................................................3
P 2 Content and process theories of motivation.....................................................................6
P 3 Effective team as opposed to ineffective team.................................................................8
P4 Concepts and philosophies applied in organizational behaviours:..................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour refers to the study which is conducted to examine the behaviour
of individual and group regarding attaining the task in the organization. Thus, the main aspects
of conducting this study is to determine the criteria which the employees carry at work place and
also the strategies and techniques which they used to accomplish the activity. Through this
manner, it helps organization to build the strong relationship with their staff members and also
fulfil their needs and demands in better way (Organizational Behaviour: Definition, Importance,
Nature, Model, 2017). Present report is based upon the company which is considered to be one
of the best-selling quality products in UK and that is Primark. They deal in wider range of
products relating to the accessories, clothing, cosmetics and other occasional products.
This report will carry the matters relating to examining the influence of culture, politics
and power on the behaviour of employees in the organization. It also covers the aspects relating
to strategies to motivate individual and team to achieve goal. Further, it reflects the matters
relating to understanding the matters regarding how to co-operate effectively with others. At last,
it covers various theories and philosophies of organizational behaviour which is implemented on
particular business situation.
MAIN BODY
P 1 Culture, politics and power and its influence over team and individual behaviour and
their performance
For the success of the company it is very necessary for the Primark to have a good
balance between the culture, politics and power. This is pertaining to the fact that if all the three
things will be stable within the company then it will have a positive impact over the productivity
and profitability of Primark. The application of culture, politics and power and its influence over
adapting to changes and the performance and behaviour of employees is as follows-
Culture- This is defined as the atmosphere or the environment which is being created
within the company and in which the employees work (Lindebaum and Geddes, 2016). For
maintaining a good culture Primark uses the model of Handy culture model. This model is
applied in following manner-
Power- This is the first culture which Primark can apply to maintain discipline in the
culture of company. Under this culture, all the power to take decision is in the hands of only a
few people and no other person or their review is included in the decision making. When the

employees do not agree to any decision then the management can enforce power on them and
make them agree. This type of culture has a negative impact over the performance and behaviour
of employees and team (Podsakoff, MacKenzie and Podsakoff, 2018). This is pertaining to the
fact that the employees will not like the strict environment and too many regulations and rules
imposed on them. Thus, this will reduce their productivity and motivation and will not like to
work in such culture where their views are not entertained. For instance, if power is in only
hands of top management then this will demotivate other employees of Primark to work in
effective manner.
Role- This is the type of culture in which the employees are delegated with roles and
responsibility in which they specialize and have interest. This is a better culture because here the
employee works in which they are best. The impact of this type of culture over the performance
and behaviour of employees of Primark is positive because here the employees get that work
only in which they are expert (Handy and Loscalzo, 2017). But in some cases, this can also have
a negative impact over the working of employees because by doing a monotonous work for long
they become bore from that work and want to do something new. For instance, if the role within
Primark is clearly defined than every employee will know what they have to do and this will
ensure clarity of roles.
Task- This is a type of culture wherein the main focus is laid on the team work and not
focusing on individual working. This is majorly promoted because of the fact that team work
brings in better and effective working. However, this is because of the reason that in team many
different employees work on a same project and this involves brainstorming of many people in
order to accomplish same and single objective (Neumayr and Handy, 2019). Thus, this increase
the morale and productivity of employees. Hence, the impact of this culture is positive as the
employees work in more effective and efficient manner. For example, if Primark will give more
team task than the employees of company will perform the task in more effective manner and
this will increase the productivity of company.
Person- Thus, here they mainly focus on the accomplishment of their individual goal
rather focusing on the goals of the company. This culture has the negative impact over the
productivity of the employees as they are will just work for their own goals and will not focus on
the organizational goals. Thus, because of this the overall productivity of Primark will decrease
(Megheirkouni, 2017). For example, this is a good culture as here the employees of Primark aim