Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation, and Effective Teams

Organisational Behaviour

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
Organisation Culture....................................................................................................................3
Politics.........................................................................................................................................5
Power...........................................................................................................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Individual and Team Motivation............................................................................................5
P3- understanding of what makes effective team, as oppose to an ineffective.......................10
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................12
P 4 concepts and philosophies of OB within an organizational context and a given business
situation......................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is considered as the academic analysis of a group or organisation
about how the people behave in workplace(Harwiki, 2016). It is mainly consists of various
primary business principles that can be used by the organisation to run the business in more
effective way. This report is about Waitrose & Partners. Waitrose & Partners was founded in
year 1904 and later it was changed to Waitrose Limited. Founder of the organisation are Walace
Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor. The head quarter of the organisation is in London United
Kingdom. Mainlyorganisation food related retail services to the customer. The culture of
organisation and impact of power and politics will be analysed in report. Various content and
process motivational techniques will be studied in report. Concept of effective team and process
of building effective team will be analysed in the report. Various concepts and philosophies of
organisation behaviour will be studied in report to for different organisation situation.
LO1
Organisation Culture
Organisation culture can be considered as the shared values, assumptions and beliefs of
organisation that governs the behaviour of people within the organisation. These aspects of the
organisation can affect or influence of people and their performance in internal operations of the
company. The role of the organisation culture in maintaining behaviour of people can be
analysed using Handy’s culture model(Ponnuswamy and Manohar, 2016). According to Handy
organisational culture can be classified in four different types which are Power culture, role
culture, people culture and task Culture. These are main types of culture that are followed in
business organisation. Impact of these cultures isdifferent on the people of organisation.
Power Culture
In this type of culture power of taking decisions is limited to the top leaders and
managers of the organisation. There are some rules and regulation are followed in this type of
culture. Employees are judged by the result that is achieved by them not by how they appear in
organisation. The process of decision making is much faster than other cultures. The decisions
that are considered in this model are based on short term targets of organisation. In this kind of

culture employees motivation is quite low because the power of taking decision and appreciation
is lies to the top leader of organisation.
Role Culture
In this type of culture a specific culture is followed by the organisation where some
authorities are delegated with ability to take decision for organisation.This type of culture
provide more control on the people of organisation. The power of individual person is derived
from their position in the structure of organisation. Most of time high educated people are
provided with higher position in organisation(Foster and Taylor, 2016). The role culture is based
on the rules that are followed in organisation. Roles and responsibilities of the people are
effectively classified and well organized structure is followed in this kind of organisation culture.
IN this type of organisation employee are more satisfied and motivated.
Person Culture
In this type of organisation culture power of the individual person is much higher than the
whole organisation. This type of culture are used by the organisation which provides special
services to the customers and these services are provided by the people who are highly skilled in
the particular field. Employees in organisation have less power and motivation level of the
people is also low in this type of company because power exists on the top level of the
organisation.
Task Culture
In the Task culture organisation is formed to deal with specific kind of problem of
progress projects. Execution of the task is more important for this kind of organisation culture.
The power in this kind culture is divide in the people of a team and this delegation is depended
on the role of people and type of problem that is targeted by organisation. Various attributes of
can be used by the organisationto gain higher productivity. This is one of the most effective
culture to keep motivation of the employees high.
Different organisation different type of culture with in their workplace. In Waitrose
Limited Task culture is used because togenerate effective performance in organisation company
need efficient team operations.