Organisational Behaviour

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Part A...............................................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1) Impact of organisation culture, power, and politics on performance of individual and
team member..........................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P2) Assess how content and process motivation theories, enable appropriate accomplishment
of goal in context of company................................................................................................7
Part B...............................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3) Demonstrate an understanding of what makes an effective team, as opposed to an
ineffective team......................................................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P4 Philosophies and concept of organisational behaviour..................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour signifies the study of individual behaviour which enforces direct
influence on function of organisation. It signifies attitude of individual person imposes direct
influence on structure of job, leadership, diversity as well as performance of company. The
current assignment is depending upon Waitrose. It is the British retailing company which is
located in England, UK. This assignment involves impact of culture, politics and power which
imposes impact on performance level of company. There is a discussion regarding how different
aspect has impact on the individual and behaviour of team within company. There is an
explanation regarding various motivational theories this is mentioned in this report (Aderibigbe,
Nwokolo and Oluwole, 2019).
Part A
TASK 1
P1) Impact of organisation culture, power, and politics on performance of individual and team
member.
Organisation politics, power as well as culture have influence on performance level of
individual and team member. There are various elements which have both favourable and
adverse influence on growth and success of company.
Influence on team and individual Person
Power imposes direct impact on authority just because of position of an individual person
in company. It is imposed by management team to influence individual person to execute
particular task and then perform their work in appropriate manner. It signifies authority such is
appraisal and promotion that are given to subordinate as per their efforts are contribution. There
are different theories which are used by Waitrose that is given below:
Coercive power it is determined as a power where individual person handling daily activity
of company. In context of Waitrose, this power is given to increase performance level of
individual person.
Reward powers this power allotted to individual person who provided reward on the basis
of performance of individual person. This kind of power is allotted to BOD to provide reward to
subordinate as per level of performance.

Referent Power it is the power which is allocated to influence behaviour of an individual
person in company. This power is imposed by leader in front of employees who perform they
work in various level.
Informational power this power possess by individual person who have a capability to
handle information that manage all kind of assignment. This power is given to CEO to handle
such kind of reports and functions such as financial department, functions related to audit and
many more (Balwant, 2018).
Influence of politics on team and individual
Politics signifies attitude of individual person to take decision. The management team in
Waitrose take decision which is necessary for welfare of company and handle political aspects.
There are various factors or elements that impose direct impact on political team and individual
behaviour that is given below:
Organisational culture it imposes direct influence on culture of company if the occurrence
of politics is high and that create adverse atmosphere which imposes direct impact on whole
productivity of subordinate.
Changing attitude politics increases the rumours that lead to change in behaviour of
subordinate. The subordinate lose their interest in executing their role as well is responsibility
related to jobs.
Impact of culture on team and individual
This is an element that enforces direct influence on values of company. The culture of
Waitrose is maintained by contribution of employer as well as employee. Therefore, the culture
is discussed by adopting Handy’s culture typology that is given below:
Power culture it is connected to centralised control which is imposed by organisation and
they perform their work with larger subordinate. Therefore, it is necessary to have larger
authority to impose control over subordinate and increases performance of company.
Role culture it signifies the responsibility as well as role of management team to perform
their work in various functional department related to Waitrose and their main focus is to
allocate as per skill and knowledge of subordinate within company.
Task culture signifies various teams who perform their work in respect of objective and
goal and also the focus is on resolving all kind of conflict and grievances. The task culture of