Analysis of Organisation Culture, Power and Politics on Individual and Team Performance

Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Analysis of organisation culture, power and politics on individual and team performance.3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2. Analysis of content and process theories of motivation in achievement of organisational
goals............................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3.Comparison between the effective and ineffective teams......................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P4. Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour.....................................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
The organisational behaviour is a study of the human behaviour and its performance so
that the employer can make efficient decision on enhancing the productivity of the employees.
This study provides an insight to the employers which helps in motivating the employees so that
effective decision can be made (Perreira, Berta and Herbert, 2018). There are many motivational
theories whose application in the organisation helps in encouraging the workforce to make their
performance better and make improvements when needed. The organisation chosen for this
report is Google, a technology company headquartered in USA. It is a multinational company
founded in the year 1998. This report shall cover the influence of power, politics and culture on
the individual and team performance, motivational theories, effective and ineffective teams and
the concept and philosophies of the organisational behaviour.
TASK 1
P1. Analysis of organisation culture, power and politics on individual and team performance.
The organisation culture is the collected and shared set of values, behaviours and beliefs
that guides the practices of members of an organisation. The power refers to the ability to
influence the actions of others in the organisation. The term politics in an organisation refers to
the motive and goal of an individual in the organisation. All the terms are interconnected and
interrelated. To achieve organisation goals effectively the balance of these three factors is
necessary (Fridell, Maskaly and Donner, 2020).
Culture
The importance of culture in individual and team performance within an organisation is
as follows;
The organisational culture is an factor that enforces the consistent work practices in
workplace. The culture is responsible for producing the aligned behaviour and actions in an
organisation. The Google success is owned to its high innovation culture at its workplace. The
culture drives the performance of employees and results in the achieved organisation objectives.
The Handy's culture model is applied to analyse the impact of culture on Google's individual and
team members behaviour.
The Charles Handy's model is an proven model of culture in analysing the culture of any
organisation. It divided the culture into four parts namely;

 Power : In this context the power is distributed to certain limited people in organisation
and they control and direct the subordinates (Badawy, Kamel and Magdy, 2017). In this
culture the subordinate have to follow the instructions as received and there opinions are
not taken much into account. Task : The task culture influences the team play. In this the team is formed on basis of
the common interest and specialisation of members. The formed team members have to
achieve the collective goal so set. Role : In role culture the employees are delegated the roles and responsibility according
to the willingness of employees. The employees with chosen responsibility the associated
power is also received.
 Person : The person culture identifies the organisation as secondary. The employees
consider their self goals as primary then considers the organisation objectives.
The Google follows innovation, openness and the prefer the people who want to come
out from cocoon and works as taking challenge everything. This culture allows the individuals to
be more focused on personal growth and development of oneself. The individuals are nurtured
in situation that enhances their creativity and innovation. When in team the team members
collectively thinks towards same goals and everyone's actions are produced towards achieving
the organisational goals. The Google follows the combination of task and role culture that helps
in individual growth of employees also and enhances the collaborative work practice and this
results in comfortable and innovative culture of Google (Beneke and et. al., 2016).
Power
Power is the use of ability to influence the actions of other in workplace. The power
corresponds to the organisation structure and with relative use of that power the behaviour of
employees are directed. The power is divided into many ways the important power are as
following;