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

Organisational Behaviour
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INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of the behaviour of all the individual or the group
of people that are working in an organisation. It reflects the behaviour of each individual in the
working environment that has the direct impact on the structure of job, communication,
performance, leadership, management, motivation on many other factors as well. It is the study
of how people behave with other workers in the company (Antonakis and House, 2013). It helps
to know about the various different aspects as like motivation of employees, work performance
and helps the company to establish the strong relationship with the other employees of the work-
force. This report includes the organisational behaviour of Waitrose that is the Britain's largest
retailer and owned by the employee having the headquarter in Bracknell and Victoria, England,
UK. This report includes the influence of culture, politics and power on the performance of the
organisation, different motivational theories and philosophies of organisational behaviour.
TASK 1
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Organisation's culture, power and politics influences the individual and the performance
of the team as well. These are those factors that defines the positive and negative impact that
affect the growth and development of the company.
Influence of power on individual and team
Power reflects the authority that has been given by the company to the particular
employee. It has been used by the managers that influenced other to perform their task and work
in an effective manner. It includes several authority as like provide rewards and appraisal as per
the performance, make decisions for the betterment of the company. There are different theories
that are used by the Waitrose to influence the behaviour of an individual and the team. These
theories are as discussed below as:
 Coercive power- It is the power that is given to the individual for managing the daily
activities of the employees. Waitrose assign this power to the managers and the CEO to
enhance the effectiveness to the performance of each individual (Chevallier and et. al.,
2012).
 Reward power- It is the power that is assigned to those individual who provides the
rewards, appraisal, promotions, training and development and many other as well.
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Waitrose provides this power to the board of directors and they further provide accurate
rewards to the employees as per their performance.
 Legitimate power- It is the power that is given as per the experience and position of the
employee. Waitrose provides this power to the CEO who makes proper control or the
company and ensures that every rules and regulations must be followed by all the
individual that are working with the company.
 Referent power- This is the power that is assigned to influence the behaviour of all the
individual of the company. Waitrose gave this power to those leaders and they further
motivate other to perform their work in an effective manner (Dartey-Baah and Amoako,
2011).
 Expert power- It is the power that is assigned to those who has huge knowledge of a
particular field. Waitrose gave this power to the managers who manages all the different
activities that is performed within the company.
 Informational power- This power is given to those who has that ability to manage the
information related to the financial reports. Waitrose provides this power to the CEO who
manages all the reports that reflects the image of the company in the market.
Influence of politics on individual and team
Politics behaviour reflects the property of an individual to take the validate decision at
right time. Manager of Waitrose take several decisions for the welfare of the company and also
manages the political aspect within the company. There are some factors that influences the
political behaviour of individual and the team that is as defined as:
 Decrease in the productivity- It has been shown that politics brings the negativity
within the company and it might vanish the objective and target of the company that they
want to achieve within the particular period of time.
 Spoils the Ambience- Politics brings unbalanced environment within the company and it
spoils the relationship between the other employees (El-Maghrabi and et. al., 2018).
 Change in attitude of employees- Politics might changes the mind-set of the employees
and it brings inequality within the company. Due to this employee must lose their interest
towards their work and demotivate the employees as well.
Influence of culture on individual and team
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