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

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Discuss how organisational culture, politics and power influence individual, team
behaviour and performance....................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Explain how content and theories of motivation enables effective achievement of goals in
context to organisation...........................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3. Analyse what makes effective team as compared to an ineffective team........................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Discuss the application of concepts and philosophies of organisation behaviour within
company respect and given business situation.......................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
The term organisational behaviour is defined as the detailed study about the behaviour of
employees working in the organisation and how they perform and interact within the group and
in the organisation, which can directly influence the overall operations and functioning of the
business. It is the process of analysing the behaviour of the employees and ensuring that they are
effectively motivated towards achieving targeted goals and objectives effectively. For this report
Unilever is taken as the base company. Unilever is one of the well established consumer goods
company, it is the biggest producer of the soap around the world offering their product in more
than 190 countries headquartered in London. The company was founded in 1929 serving world
widely. This report highlights the detailed analysis of the organisational behaviour and impact of
organisational culture, power and politics on the employee’s performance and the team
behaviour is explained in this report. In addition to this different motivational theories and model
along with the detailed analysis of effective and ineffective team is also highlighted in this
report. Further more the applications of different organisational theories and philosophies is also
explained in this present report effectively.
TASK 1
P1. Discuss how organisational culture, politics and power influence individual, team behaviour
and performance
Organisational behaviour is defined as the process of analysing and understanding the
behaviour of an employee working in an organisation which can influence the operations of the
business effectively. Each employee working in the organisation has different behaviour which is
mainly based on their collective belief. Organisational culture plays an essential role here by
managing and maintaining proper coordination among the employees, increasing their
motivational level. In case of Unilever, the manager and leader of the organisation continuously
focus of enhancing the productivity and performance of their employees through providing safe
and healthy working environment to them and also ensuring that employees are aware of the
vision and objectives of the organisation (Aktar and Pangil, 2020).The organisational culture,
politics and power directly influence the individual, team behaviour and performance, as in
detailed discussed below:
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