Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Organizational Behaviour

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Culture, politics and power influence on individual, team behaviour and performance in the
organization.................................................................................................................................3
Reward power..................................................................................................................................5
M1. Critical evaluation of power, culture and politics on individuals and teams.......................6
D1 Complexities of business structures.......................................................................................7
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................7
P2 Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques responsible for
enabling effectiveness in an organization....................................................................................7
M2 Critical evaluation of the motivational theories in influencing the behaviour of others.....10
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................10
P3 Some factors of development in making effective team as opposed to ineffective team.....10
M3 Group Development theory.................................................................................................11
D2. Critical evaluation of the theory of team development.......................................................12
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................13
P4 Concepts, philosophies of Organizational behaviour in analysing business situation of a
company.....................................................................................................................................13
M4. Critical evaluation of the philosophies...............................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour (OB) is examining the actions of individuals in company. It is the
study of connection between employees and organization (McShane and Glinow 2017). Its
principles are to make business operate effectively. In Sainsbury, this study includes a research
to improve job performances, job satisfactions, developing innovations and influencing
leadership. Each factor has its actions of reorganizing teams, shaping structures and changing
ways of performance. Organizational behaviour goal is to reshape theories of Sainsbury and
develop better conceptualization to maintain durability in market. It includes total organisational
behaviour and influence of culture, politics and power of an organisation on individual, team
behaviour and performance. It evaluates which content and process theories of motivation and
techniques of motivation enable effectiveness in achieving Sainsbury goals. Organizational
behaviour also defines which theory can make effective team as opposed to ineffective team and
analyse its business situations by applying concepts & philosophies of OB in an organization
MAIN BODY
LO 1
P1 Culture, politics and power influence on individual, team behaviour and performance in the
organization.
Organization culture
Every organization has a mix of norms, beliefs, values, attitude and personalities which
represents special characteristics of a company. It is a fundamental factor that influences
behaviour of company (Management Theory of Charles Handy, 2016). Culture in Sainsbury also
defines how its structure is set and maintained. Organisation culture is defined according to
Charles handy model of culture which was classified in four types:
Power culture
It is a strong culture held by some authorized individuals whose inspiration is spread in
the entire entrepreneurial organisations (Brenyah and Obuobisa-Darko, 2017). It is a dominant
culture among all which affects the results of performance of Sainsbury. Individuals enjoy
special benefits of this power culture at their workplace. Employees do not have any other option
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rather than following strict orders of their leader instructions. There is no liberty among the staff
members to express their views on some decisions
Task culture
Companies form some teams to solve hectic problems and follow this culture. It includes
employees having common skills, specializations and interests are kept together to shape up a
team. Each and every member of the team is instructed to contribute equally in accomplishing
burden of task correctly. Task culture is result oriented culture of an organisation in which results
are more necessary than Sainsbury norms.
Role culture
It is a culture in which each and every staff member is assigned based on their interest,
qualification and special skills to take out the best from them (Chen and et.al., 2019). In this
culture employees decide and accept their work according to their will. Every employee is
responsible of work delegated to them. This culture provides a huge amount of stability and
certainty which is highly effective to grow Sainsbury performance as well as individual
behaviour.
Person culture
This culture is often found in many organisations where staff members are allowed to
work independently. It is unusual culture which shows self-greed of an individual. It is examined
when the individuals come to office only for earning money. Employees never talk or take
decision in the favour of Sainsbury. This culture does not include any kind of goals which could
highly affect performance of Sainsbury.
Organizational politics
These are self-serving behaviours of employees who are responsible to maximize
probability of acquiring positive results in Sainsbury. These are the interactions of human beings
including authorities and power (Angasisye 2019). Politics is an implementation to get access of
operational capability and balance views and missions of Sainsbury.
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