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

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
Explain impact of organisation’s culture, politics & power influence individual & team behaviour
as well as performance......................................................................................................................3
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................5
Discuss process & content theories of motivation in relevance with given organisation...................5
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................7
Explain the comparison between effective & ineffective team..........................................................7
TASK 4.................................................................................................................................................9
Briefly discuss the philosophies & concept of OB.............................................................................9
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................12
Books & Journal:.............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Every enterprise focuses on organisational behaviour to maintain and manage
employees as well as work in our environment. Behaviour is defined as analysing and
studying of human behaviour at workplace. Also affects the decision making at level it is a
concept which is to be understood by every entity in most effective manner. Plan.com, a
leading cloud solution based company headquartered in UK. The company deals in data,
voice, cloud solutions and help businesses so that they operate smoothly and factory this
report includes organisational culture politics and power content and process theory of
motivation effective & ineffective team and concept of movie with philosophy. It is important
to be aware about concept of OB so that decision making is done properly within the
organisation also through this a positive relationship is maintained between employee and
employer.
TASK 1
Explain impact of organisation’s culture, politics & power influence individual & team
behaviour as well as performance
The element of organisation have a deeper impact on individual as well as in India
and their performance as work and distance are carried out through which factors which are
culture, politics and power. In relation with plan.com, the company also have impact on
performance which are discussed below-
Culture- Organisational culture plays vital role within the management and working
environment. At workplace, people are from different types of work culture and according to
the Charles handy theory there are different types of culture which are power, person, task
and role (Aswathappa, , 2009).
Task culture- This stage specifies that, certain task and duties are given to and team
as well as individual which are to be fulfilled and completed within a specific period of time.
In context to chosen entity, employee of the organisation are assigned task on the basis of
their abilities and skills.
Person- Culture includes distribution of power within the individual or team leader in
this power is being given to the suitable subordinate so that work complexity is being reduced
this culture also reflects negativity amongst the members and staff as because individual start
thinking that they are the core assets of firm. In relation with selected enterprise, power is
being distributed on the basis of appraisals and other achievements (McKenna, 2020).
Power Culture- This power culture is defined as giving authority of power between
the few or owners. This type of culture is mostly used when there is need to control the
employees and management to achieve the desired common goals.

Role- Then comes the role culture in which distribution of power is done on the basis
of certain position which the individual of subordinate have within the company. This works
under the top down approach and decisions are being made under formal structure for
example in context to select enterprise manager and head of the department have special
authorities which they used in positive way.
System theory- System theory is defined as understanding the fundamental of
subsystems and recognises them properly so that a complete system is developed. A system is
considered as open system because characteristics are being infected with surroundings and
keep in revolving attribute scale (Maio, 2020).
Network theory- Network theory is defined as a complete study of social
phenomenal suggest spelling of credentials or are the way individual form social groups in
relation with their behaviour. Both the network & system theories are to be considered as
usual part of culture so that it become easier to understand the human behaviour.
Importance of cultural differences
The effect of cultural differences within the organisation is d and which is to be examined
effectively by the organisation with the help of different understanding of cultures and
providing the equal rights (Jacobs, 2019).
 Power distance- It refers to degree of to which inequality e for intensity of power is
being tolerated by the people. High power distance shows that culture accepts the
inequality and differences. Whereas less power distance depicts that people do not
accept the inequality.
 Uncertainty avoidance- This index depicts that extent up to which risk and
ambiguity are to be tolerated by the people.
 Collectivism VS Individualism- In this, work and success are compared with team
members with the individual.
 Restraint VS Indulgence- This shows the degree of to which society or culture can
control their desire and wants.
 Long term VS short term orientation- This type of orientation depicts which time
horizon does this society adopts into their culture.
Organisation Power
Organisational power is defined as assigning of task & getting work done by team
members within a specific interval of time. It is necessary to distribute the power within the
right hand so that no discrimination is being done with the other employees. There are
various types of power which are given as follows-
Expert power- This kind of power is achieved through the experience and knowledge
in a particular specialised field. This is mostly used by the companies to carry on their
function and operations in well organised manner.