Impact of Culture, Power and Politics on Employee Behavior in Primark

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Impact of culture, power and politics of an organization on employees...............................1
M1................................................................................................................................................4
LO2 .................................................................................................................................................5
P2. Models, Theories and concept used to motivate employee...................................................5
M2................................................................................................................................................7
D1.................................................................................................................................................8
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P3. Ways to cooperate effectively with others.............................................................................8
M3..............................................................................................................................................10
LO4................................................................................................................................................10
P4. Philosophies and concept of OB that influence organizational behaviour..........................10
M4..............................................................................................................................................13
D2...............................................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour refers to the study of employee behaviour within an
organization. It is like, analysing connection between organization and their employees. Main
objective of studying organizational behaviour is to use them for making businesses efficient.
This report will analyse about Primark Company which deals in clothing products for men, kids
and women, due to its lowest prices and good quality of products the company survived in UK
from recession. In addition, this report will also discuss How culture, power and politics of an
organization influence organizational behaviour and their impact on employee performance. It
will also cover ways to influence behaviour of an employee of the organization with the help of
motivation, which will be supported by appropriate theories or models. This report will also
analyse relevant team and group development theories to support growth of an organization. And
with the help of concept of organizational behaviour, it will analyse how they influence
employee behaviour both positively and negatively with respect to an actual business situation
(Al Nasseri and Aulin, 2016). Primark is a subsidiary company in Irish that deals in retail
industry provide fast fashion to its customers. It was founded in 1969 by Arthur Ryan and
located at 373 places.
PART 1
LO1
P1. Impact of culture, power and politics of an organization on employees
Culture
Organization's culture are the characteristics and traits of the organization and employees
that work with firm. It defines the way employees communicate with each other and their roles
and responsibilities within firm. These traits set an organization apart from their competitors.
Organization's culture is mixture of different cultures, traditions, attitudes or beliefs (Al Ali
Elanain and Ajmal, 2016). In order to understand organizational culture briefly, Handy model of
Organizational culture is used. This model was given by Charles Handy, and according to him
there are four different types of cultures, mainly power, role, task and person.
`Such organization power are concentrated by top management of company, and they
only take various crucial decision in order to gain competitive advantage in the market. In power
culture, power is given to only few employees, and they are responsible for driving the
organization, organizational power have the ability to influence employee to work on something,
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which they refused earlier (Alqahtani, 2018). It is also an ability to control resources of the
organization. Employees performances are analysed by their achievements in power culture
(Khadar, 2018). Power is among the top management and employees take less or no part in
decision-making of company. And those individuals may find themselves as unique and superior
to others. This will further contribute in creating conflicts among employees, and powerless
employees might feel demotivated or to work poorly. Organization that adopts role culture
distribute power on the basis of roles and responsibilities performed by each employees within
firm. are strict on following rules. Everyone in such organization knows their roles and
responsibilities. Then comes task culture in it teams is formed on basis of achieving a specific
task, teams are formed with mixture of skills and abilities. Thus, on the basis of task to be
performed by each individual power is given to achieve common objectives of company. Last
comes Person culture individual assumes himself/herself as superior from others in an
organization because of its high skilled and knowledge. It takes power to rule within firm
because it have more knowledge and experience about particular matter. Primark follows roles
culture because it establishes highly controlled environment, and employees of Primark are well
aware of their duties and responsibilities and work according to that (Opoku and Arthur, 2018).
Primark maintains positive work culture, and through that more and more talented employees are
willing to join the organization. Positive office culture also helps in boosting productivity of
employees. Employees of Primark feels more satisfied and engaged while working in positive
workplace culture of an organization and it will result in effective team building and team
performance. This improves Primark's team and employee behaviour and their performances too.
It is also believed that employees which are influenced by good work culture will help the
organization to achieve their goals. Organization's culture also shapes employee interactions
which will further result in shaping team behaviours.
Politics
Organizational politics refers to the activities of company that defined the way people
interact with each other on basis of power and authority of individual within firm. Main objective
of organizational politics is to sell ideas and vision informally and to achieve some internal
targets of self-interest, or may be to improve/influence organizational tasks. Primark's
organizational politics can impact tremendously on behaviour of individuals or their employee.
The origin of organizational politics is the diversification of viewpoint of employees (Gavrić,
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