Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Power, and Politics

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analysisng of how organizational culture, power and politics affects the individual team
behaviour and performance..........................................................................................................1
M1 ...............................................................................................................................................2
LO2..................................................................................................................................................3
P2 Theory and process theory of motivation impacts achievement of organizational goal........3
M2................................................................................................................................................4
LO3..................................................................................................................................................4
P3 difference between effective and ineffective teams................................................................4
M3................................................................................................................................................6
LO4..................................................................................................................................................6
P4 Concepts and philosophies of OB and leadership styles........................................................6
M4................................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSON ................................................................................................................................8
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
`Organisation behaviour is the process of analysing behaviour of employees in the firm
because it influences the working of company to great extent. Present study is based on LG
which is an South Korean multinational electronic manufacture. LG manufactures different types
of products like mobiles, television, laptops, air conditioner etc. This study highlights the power,
culture and political on the behaviour of other organisation and also motivate the individual team
to achieve goal. It also reveals the understanding of cooperate effectively with other and showing
the concept & philosophy of OB in business situation. In this regard the present report has been
prepared (Al Ali, Elanain and Ajmal, 2016)
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P1 Analysing of how organizational culture, power and politics affects the individual team
behavior and performance.
LG's culture can be defined as belief, basic assumptions, values and way of interacting
which contributes to physical and social environment of the company.
Handy's four class of culture-
Power culture- In this culture decisions are taken by only higher authorities and lower staff are
not allowed to take decisions. It influences team behavior in such a way that they have power, so
they sometimes create work load to the employees as this reduces the work quality and de
motivates them. The culture individual behavior as they feel that they have less value as all the
decisions are taken by some higher persons only. This culture creates negative impact on
employee as they feel that they are treated like machines, people do not corporate and thus,
affects work performance. This culture impacts the productivity of LG as workers are not
satisfied and leaving their job (Al Nasseri and Aulin, 2016).
Role culture- Power in role culture is determined by a person’s position in the organizational
structure. As staff turnover is the major problem, by implementing this culture LG will be able to
make its workers happy which will make them able to retain in firm for longer duration. It
impacts the team behaviors as decision making is painful and slow so when team wants to
implement any strategy the decision making is delayed by management and impacts over all
team performance. This influences the individual behavior is such a way that they do not feel
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motivated (Al Nasseri and Aulin, 2016). As the company has strict set of rules and decision
making is slow if affects the performance of LG.
Task culture- Task culture is created when groups in organization are created to handle an
specific task or project. This impacts the team behaviour in such a way that they feel motivated
as they are given equal responsibility to perform a task. Thus, this influence individual in such a
way that employee is responsible for its own task only which keeps them motivated. Task culture
influence the overall performance of LG, each task is carried out smoothly as role are divided.
Thus, work productivity of LG increases (Allameh, Rezaei and Seyedfazli, 2017).
Person culture- In this type of culture individuals are more serious about their personal profit
rather than the Organization's profit. Person culture impacts the team behavior as individuals are
not serious about the work, they work only for their benefit not the individual. Individuals are
influences as they do not take initiate foe business productivity. Person culture reduces the work
progress as individuals are not working for LG's benefit.
POLITICS- Due yo politics in LG carrying out business task becomes difficult. It imapcts team
behaviors that people are not given credit for their work as higher authority plays politics. As a
result, workers feels less valuable in the LG. Individual behavior is also influenced as it reduces
the morale of employee and demotivates them to do work (Allameh, Rezaei and Seyedfazli,
2017). Politics reduces the productivity of the LG as employee’s relation are not so good, so they
do not perform day to day task very well.
POWER- Power means that higher authority has certain powers to deal with subordinates with
different punishments when certain tasks are not performed on time. This impacts the team
behaviour as they feel motivated by the reward provided. This influence individual behaviour as
reward keeps them happy on work but in other sense when they are punished, they do not feel
good. So, this impacts in both manner negative as well as positive. The culture impacts work
progress of LG as higher authority makes the workers to do work on time, thus more output is
generated within desired time (Chinomona and Dhurup, 2015).
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Culture influences the team behaviours as when good culture is followed ibn the
organization teams works in more effective manner. When culture followed is not good healthy
relations among staff can not be carried out and thus impacts overall productivity of LG. Politics
plays and major role as there is lot of politics in organization performing day to day task
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