How Organisational Culture, Politics and Power Influence Behaviour

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1. How an organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
.....................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P2. How content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals....................................................................................................7
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3. What makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team......................................10
Difference between Effective and Ineffective teams:....................................................................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13
P4. Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour.....................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour indicates to the subject of administration actions and
operations which concerned with understanding, predicting and impacting individuals behaviour
in an organisation. It can be a procedure of study of both team and individual execution and
function in a firm. It is essential because it help in determining human behaviour in a working
atmosphere and monitor the impact on job design, execution, abstraction, encouragement and
leadership. The study of organisational behaviour is important because it provides an
understanding of employees behaviour who make their contribution in the growth of the
company (Aderibigbe, Nwokolo and Oluwole, 2019). This assignment is based on Burberry
Group PLC which is a British luxury fashion house. This company was formed in 1856 by
Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, UK. This firm operate its business in fashion
industry with its main fashion house and distributes trench coats, ready to wear outerwear,
fashion accessories, fragrances, sunglasses and cosmetics. This document will discuss about
impact of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of team and individual. Further, will
define about content and process theories of motivation which are beneficial for effective

achievement of goals. Effective & ineffective team and concepts or philosophies of
organisational behaviour will also describe.
TASK 1
P1. How an organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
Organisational culture
It can be explained as the philosophies, ideologues, beliefs, presumes, impressions,
anticipations, cognitions and standards that add a company together and are shared by its
workers. In Burberry, it can be crucial to accomplish organisational goals and drives the way of
thinking so that employees can perform well. To monitor the influence of organisational culture
on team and individual behaviour, the firm can use theories if organisational culture. They are as
follows:
Handy's model of organisational culture
Power culture- In it, power is allotted to few people and they are only responsible to take
decisions (Ahmadi and et. al., 2019). In Burberry, if the management follows it, then they can
provide the right and power to take decision and delegate their responsibilities to the employees.
It affect negatively individual and team behaviour because it dissatisfy and demotivate them
when the senior lead wrongly and lead a high labour turnover then it affect workers performance
due to lack of proper guidance.
Roles culture- In this culture, manager and administrator of the company responsible to
share and transfer information. If the administration of Burberry follow this culture, the senior
and managers of the company will transfer all information to its employees related ton work,
rules, policies and others (Alamayreh, Sweis and Obeidat, 2019). It favourably affect the team
and individual behaviour because if the firm make change in its policies and rules then the senior
will share information to them and they will aware with it and work accordingly which positively
affect their performance.
Task culture- In this culture, task and work are allotted and assigned to employees and
workers according to their knowledge and competencies. In Burberry, with the help of it,
administration of the company can allotted work as per employees skills and knowledge so that
they can appropriately meet the objectives of task and work. This positively affect individual and