Organisational Behaviour: Power, Culture & Politics

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
P1 Evaluate how organisational power, culture & politics influence performance & behaviour
of team along with individual.................................................................................................3
M1 Critically examine how power, culture & politics of a business entity influence
performance and behaviour of team and individual...............................................................6
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P2 Assess how process & content theory attain goals and objectives of an organisation......7
M2 Critically measure application of these theories influence others behaviour..................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3 Discuss what makes a team effective and ineffective.....................................................10
M3 Examine effective theories of team development..........................................................12
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................12
P4 Apply various philosophies and concepts of OB in context of organisation..................12
M4 Investigate and measure how concepts & philosophies influence behaviour in positive as
well as negative manner.......................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
Book & Journals...................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
OB or Organisational behaviour is define as the study of individuals behaviour within an
organisation which takes place in different situations arise at workplace. Major purpose behind
conducting a study on organisational behaviour is to examine the relationship among staff
members of the business entity. It is an assignment where M&S is selected as the basic
organization which is a British international retailer institution (Chan and Lai, 2017). It is the
company which is established in year 1884 by Thomas Spencer & Michael Marks. Company
deals food items, clothing and home products. It is the report which includes a discussion about
various theories, concepts and philosophies which influences the behaviour of individual as well
as team. Along with this it includes different motivational theories which encourages staff
members working within the workplace.
TASK 1
P1 Evaluate how organisational power, culture & politics influence performance & behaviour of
team along with individual.
Organisational culture define as a behaviour, attitude and values of an individual and
organisation which provide contribution to perform task in an effective manner. It is the factor
which includes expectations, experiences, philosophy as well as values of an organisation due to
which employees level of satisfaction remain positive. In order to attain desired results, Marks &
Spencer have effective organisational culture. For this, managers use Handy's typology which are
going to be discussed as follows:
Handy's typology
It is defined as one of the most effective and beneficial model as it assist in examining the
culture of an organisation in an effective manner. According to Handy's Typology there are
majorly 4 main types of culture which will assist the top authority of an organisation so atht they
can accomplish there goals & objective within specific time period (Conard and et. al, 2016). In
the references to M&S, all these elements are going to be discussed in an effective manner:
Role culture: It is define as a type of culture where managers and leaders of the company
hold the authority and responsibilities in order to assign duties, jobs and work to individual
person working within the organisation. With the assistance of sense of encouragement,

employees will be able to produce positive result within given time frame. This as a result, help
them so that they can perform their work in an appropriate manner within given time frame.
Task culture: This is define as a type of culture where managers develop various groups
in order to resolve disputes and conflicts arise within the organisation. With the assistance of this
culture, organisation will be able to gain support from their staff members in order to create
positive environment within the organisation (Dedahanov, Rhee and Yoon, 2017). Management
team of M&S create develop different small task in order to attain the main task. Each and every
task includes ample number of individuals which might assist them in order to perform their task.
While conducting these task, performance of teams as well as of individuals increases. Task
culture witnesses the assignment of roles and responsibilities as per the skills, competencies,
knowledge and expertise of employees. This instils a sense of positive behaviour within
individuals and team. Also, it enhances the output delivered by them as the tasks allotted to them
are as per their likelihood. Task Culture influences the individual performance and behaviour is
positive way because with the help of this culture, the encouragement of common vision among
employees is done and their behaviour is positively influenced to give more willingly to the
organisation. This culture also encourages teamwork. The positive influence is also because they
are made curious about things and they learn things from one another and seeks assistance for the
things which they do not know about for better delivery of services.
Person culture: According to this culture, employees of the company consider
themselves as the superior and start enhancing self growth rather than team development.
Execution of team culture within the business entity might affect there overall performance and
profitability at the competitive marketplace. It is define as the culture which might influence the
whole performance of staff members. In reference to M&S, person culture negatively affects the
behaviour and perception of team as individual focuses on their development rather than
development of the whole team. It has been analysed that it is a negative type of culture as the
centre point is individuals rather then the whole team. Therefore, it is said that if this type of
culture is used by the company, this as a result directly boost the behaviour and performance of
employees as they attain opportunities in order to develop themselves according to organisational
requirements. As the employees will make their focus on individual goals so there will not be
any consideration of organisation in the working of employees. This will make them lazy and
leisured as thye are focused on getting their salary and passing the working hours. These hours