Effects of Culture, Power & Politics on the Organisation (Doc)
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Organisational Behaviour
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK...............................................................................................................................................1P1 Impact of culture, power and politics on individual, team behaviour and performance.......1P2 Content and process theories of motivation to achieve goals................................................3P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team............................7P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour............................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour refers to study of strategies or policies which are required to befollowed by staff members to behave at work place. It includes various management activitiesand rules for employees which should be prefer by them while performing in the company. It isnecessary to maintain an appropriate organisational behaviours as it is directly concerned withunderstanding, production and control of workers in an organisation (Andersson, Jackson andRussell, 2013). This report is based on TESCO which is a British supermarket retailer andheadquartered in Hertfordshire, England. It was founded by Jack Cohen in the year around 1919,almost 99 years ago. It serves several products at global level which includes supermarket,hypermarket, superstore and convenience shop. This assignment will discuss about culture,politics or power impacts on individual, team behaviour and performance of organisation alongwith content & motivation theories of motivation. It also explain strategies or method whichhelps to make teams effective and concepts or philosophies organisational behaviour to businesssituation. TASKP1 Impact of culture, power and politics on individual, team behaviour and performanceThe organisational behaviour should have maintained by making more effective as wellas efficient strategies because it impacts on regular productivity of business. It is necessary toavoid or reduce issues or conflicts among staff members as it may effect performance oforganisation which results in decrease in profitability of the same. In case of TESCO, it isnecessary to focus on organisational behaviour of business as it impacts on overall performanceof daily basis along with productivity as well as profitability. Thus, it is important to reduceproblems in company on regular basis because better culture facilitates to improve performanceof an individual and team to gain desired goals or objectives of business (Ashkanasy andHumphrey, 2011). Handy’s cultural typologyThis model was popularised by Charles Handy in the year around 1999 which classifiedorganisational culture into four categories such as Power, task, person and role. It may providesupport to make understand about comfortability of an individual in company while performingparticular activities or event. It is also concerned with the fact that culture and structure of an1
organisation are interrelated with each other. In context of TESCO, they have to focus on severalfactors to increase overall performance of business which are explained further – Power: According to Handy's views, power culture is kind of spider's web in which all ofauthorised individuals are sitting in the centre to give instructions. It can be described as toutilise power of authority in proper manner for directing staff members in correct direction whichfacilitates to complete required targets in given period of time (Avey, Palanski and Walumbwa,2011). In case of TESCO they have to distribute power of authority among certain deservingsenior employees to make immediate decisions properly. Taskculture: This can be described as to establish several teams for carrying outspecific tasks in correct manner through utilising overall skills or abilities of group members. Itis necessary to separate teams of employees as per their field of expertise so that every target canbe complete with perfection. The TESCO company have to establish various teams to performdifferent tasks in proper manner to achieve better outcomes regularly. Personculture: The person culture includes when people remain more concerned abouttheir self rather than aspects of organisation. In such cultural environment, staff member thinksfor their welfare besides of goals or targets of the company and in this condition, businessusually suffers. In case of TESCO, they have to focus on development of their workers but alsoremember about growth of company. Roleculture: This can be explained as to assign specified roles as well as responsibilitiesto staff members as pre their field of specialisation, educational qualification and interest toextract best out of them. It is well known fact that individuals can perform more effectively iontheir particular interested area along with generating better outcomes (Bolino and et. al., 2013).In case of TESCO they have to allocate tasks of procedures to staff members as per their field ofexpertise which helps to improve overall performance of organisation. In context to TESCO, thy utilise shared friendly culture in which they remain frank withstaff members and share proper information to them about various projects or tasks. It isnecessary to maintain a frank relationship with them to know about their issues regardingmanagement technique or many more and put efforts to solve them properly. It will providesupport to people to share their problems with higher authority because it may impact on regularperformance of workers. Thus, it is observed that issues of an individual distract them from work2
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