Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
TASK1.......................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and
team behaviour and performance...........................................................................................3
TASK2.......................................................................................................................................6
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context......................................6
TASK3.......................................................................................................................................7
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................7
TASK4.......................................................................................................................................7
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and a given business situation...................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8
Books and journal..................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour can be defined as a set of activities and the nature of the
employees within the organisation while performing different jobs. Also define as nature of
employees while working on the particular job within the organisation.it is important part of
organisation as influence of the behaviour can impact on the profitability and productivity of
the organisation. In context of the current report, the chosen organisation is Unilever. It is a
global organisation which provides different services within FMCG, cosmetics and other
food and cosmetic related items (O'Grady, 2018). In the present report the beginning is
consist of analysis about the culture politics and power and their influence on the individual
and team behaviour within the organisation. In the middle of this report there is discussion
about how the process and content theories within the organisation for the motivation help
organisation in achieving its objectives. There is also discussion about the team effectiveness
and efficiency by comparison between effective and ineffective team. In the last of this
report, there is discussion about various philosophies and concepts of organisation behaviour
and context of Unilever and how the impact on the performance of different employees
within the organisation.
MAIN BODY
TASK1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Business environment is changing continuously which also impacting on the
behaviour of an individual within the organisation. Organisation behaviour can be defined as
a study that consists of different effect on the individual performance as well as profitability
of the organisation because of attitude values believes and processes of the organisations
employees in a particular direction. In context of Unilever, it follow a proper structure within
the organisation for maintaining up effective organisation behaviour which consists of three
different elements these are culture, politics and power within the organisation. A brief
discussion about all of these factors is stated below:
Culture
Culture is the important part of every organisation which directly influences the
behaviour of individual while working on a particular job within the organisation. Culture can

be defined as leaves values and social thinking of an individual which is directly related to its
performance as well as working within the environment. This also impact the behaviour of
individual that how the individual will behave within the organisation while working on his
job and how it respond to different situation (Wong and Wong, 2017). There is various type
of culture within an organisation which can be managed by the manager of firm. In context of
Unilever it follows four type of culture within the organisation. These cultures are defined
below:
Handy's model of organisational culture
Power culture: it is that type of culture which is directly related to follow up of
different rules and regulation which are formed according to the authority of an individual for
making decisions. Unilever is operating with different departments within the organisation it
is important for organisation to establish improper activity within the organisation and it can
be achieved by the help of our culture. This culture is remaining with the hands of leaders
within the organisation for making quick decisions and improving the standard within the
organisation by taking fast actions.
Person culture: it is that type of culture within the organisation which is considered
as a unique or a superior part of the organisation for a particular individual. this culture is also
maintained within the different departments of Unilever where the head of department is
considered as a first person within the organisation who have direct influence on other
employees. This motivates the behaviour of employees toward the work as they take their
leader as an ideal and try to get equal with him (AZAM and KUMAR, 2016).
Task culture: it is important culture which of the following within the Unilever as
employees has to perform different functions within the organisation which are divided in
separate task. This type of culture helps employees in driving their best output while
performing different task within the organisation. For this we perform different duties in the
groups which are called as team and properly fulfil their responsibility within the team.
Role culture: this is also an effective culture which is followed by the Unilever
within its different functioning as it provide organisation a highly competitive employees
who perform their roles and responsibility in a particular manna to achieve the goals and
objective of the organisation. The flow within the organisation is bureaucratic and help
farmer in management of different activities by assigning roles to each and every individual.