Influence of Organisation's Culture, Politics and Power

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Organisational
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1: Influence of organisation’s culture, politics and power .......................................................4
M1:Critically analyse culture, politics and power to influence individual and team behaviour. 6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P2: Evaluating content and process theories of motivation.........................................................7
Process theory..............................................................................................................................8
M2: Critically evaluate influence of behaviour through motivation theory and concept............9
D1: Critically determine the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation to
prepare effective team..................................................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3: Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...............................................................10
M3: Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the development of
dynamic cooperation..................................................................................................................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P4: Application of concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour Within an
organisational context................................................................................................................12
M4: Evaluate philosophies that help to influence the individual behaviour in both positive and
negative manner.........................................................................................................................13
D2:Critically analyse team development theories to influence individual behaviour...............14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFRENCES ................................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is an essential branch of the management that is based on the
application of knowledge about the behaviours of people within the workplace. It is basically
concerned with predicting, understanding as well as controlling the human behaviour for the
adequate functioning (Burrell and Morgan, 2017). This has emerged as distinct field that leads to
the development of human resource management by satisfying the need of workforce. The main
purpose of this study is to establish the effective relationship by attaining the human,
organisational as well as social objective. For the better understanding of report, Marks and
Spenser company has been selected which is multinational retail store of UK whose headquarter
is in London. The company specialised in selling high quality food and non food products like
clothing, food as well as home decoration items. This report covers topics like analyse the
impact of cultural, politics as well as power on the behaviour of other within an organisational
context. This report evaluates the role of an individual as well as team to attain the goals of an
organisation. Further, determination of the way in which effective cooperation within the team
could be done and application of concept as well as philosophies of organisation behaviour are
covered in this report.
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TASK 1
P1: Influence of organisation’s culture, politics and power
The culture, politics as well as power of an organisation directly impact the motivation
level and performance of both individual as well as team member. Thus, to attain the goals
successfully, Marks and Spencer make sure that they positively influence the behaviour of
manpower by managing the power, culture and politics in an effective way. (M&S, 2019)
Organisation culture defines as the set of shared belief, assumption as well as value that
is used to create unique image of the company irrespective of other. This symbolises strong
influence that help to maintain the unique image or culture by offering certain guidelines to
maintain the behaviour of an individual and team member within organisation. Further, within
Marks and Spencer, it affect the way by which internal member interact amongst one other, with
stakeholders as well as client. Thus, it finally determines how much the staff identifies
themselves with their organisation in which they work. Hence, the company makes vital effort to
retain a healthy culture where each and every member and group renders the internal values of an
organisation.
Hendy’s culture typology
Charles Handy defined four types of culture that vary from one organisation to other and
are used in different phases to determine the potential image. The explanation of each culture is
defined below:
Power culture: Within power culture, the managers follow the centralised decision
making where only few members have the authority to participate in the decision making process
(Coccia, 2014). These privileged members identifies internal and external market through their
foresight vision and allocate the task by coming up with quick decision in order to attain success
and flourish the business. The manager of Marks and Spencer can go for power culture to control
the internal disputes or confusion within individual and team member by just directing them to
function and implement the actions effectively. Although, it reduces the human involvement or
interaction but benefits when decision are need to be taken and implement within short duration.
There are certain demerits of power culture in an organisation such as sometimes authority can
misuse their power and appoint an inefficient candidate in its workforce who may be a known
person to him.
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