Impact of Politics, Organizational Culture and Power on Team and Individual Performance

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................................4
LO1..............................................................................................................................................................4
P1 Impact of politics, organizational culture and power on team and individual performance..............4
M1...........................................................................................................................................................7
LO2..............................................................................................................................................................7
P2 Motivational theories in attaining organizational goals......................................................................7
M2.........................................................................................................................................................10
LO3............................................................................................................................................................11
P3 Team development theories.............................................................................................................11
Illustration 2: Tuckman theory...............................................................................................................13
M3.........................................................................................................................................................13
LO4............................................................................................................................................................14
P4 Philosophies of organizational behaviour.........................................................................................14
M4.........................................................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is basically studying as well as understanding that how people
and group of people act and behave within an organization. The main aim of this report is to
study influence of motivation, organizational culture as well as technology in Primark on
behaviour and productivity of its employees (Adizes, Cudanov and Rodic, 2017).
Primark is primarily fashion retail organization being established in 1969 by Arthur Ryan
and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. This organization provides diversity products like
menswear, womenswear, accessories, beauty products, confectionary etc.
This report gives an overview of impact of politics, organizational culture and power on
team and individual performance, motivational theories in attaining organizational goals, team
development theories and philosophies of organizational behaviour.
MAIN BODY
LO1
P1 Impact of politics, organizational culture and power on team and individual performance
Organizational culture
Organizational culture is basically the mixture of various values as well as behaviours
which helps in developing psychological environment within a business (Boussebaa, 2019).
Handy’s model
Power culture
This is basically the organizational culture in which power is generally held by some
individuals and thus has various rules as well as regulations. For example- in Primark, the
authoritative bodies like leaders and top management have the power to delegate responsibilities
to the employees. This culture helps Primark to take effective decisions and thus assists in
influencing behaviour of individual and team (Boussebaa, 2019).

Task culture
This culture mainly addresses upon team performance and in this, teams are generally
formed for achieving the goals and for solving critical problems. For example- to achieve the
targets and definite objectives, employees in Primark usually perform the activities in teams.
This helps Primark to increase the communication between individuals and overall team and thus
enables the employees to increase their productivity (Thomas, Ambrosini and Hughes, 2019).
Person culture
In this culture, the employees as well as individuals are given high emphasis and they are
mainly concerned about themselves instead of organization. In short, individuals mainly see
themselves as unique as well as superior. For example- Primark follows person culture and thus
mainly emphasizes upon the benefits of employees like their pay, productivity etc (Lewis,
Cantore and Passmore, 2016).
Role culture
Role culture is basically the organizational culture where the employees are generally
delegated with the roles as well as responsibilities as per their specialization as well as their
educational qualifications. For example- In Primark, employees are given roles according to their
capabilities like technical work to the technical staff. This eventually increases the commitment
of employees towards their work and hence their overall performance increases (Rurkkhum and
Bartlett, 2018).
Impact of Power
The organizational power is basically the ability to get the things done by other and thus
impacts the performance of individual and team in an imperative way.
French & Raven
Legitimate power
This form of power generally addresses that person have formal right to take decisions
and have the power to reward and punish employees (George and Schillebeeckx, 2018). It affects