Influence of Organisational Culture, Power, and Politics on Behaviour and Performance

Organisational
Behaviour

INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................4
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................4
P1 Organisation culture, power and politics and their influence on individual and team behaviour. .4
M1 Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour and performance...............................................................................6
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................7
P2 Evaluation of content and process theories of motivation in context of Sainsbury.......................7
M2 Critical evaluation of how to influence the behaviour of others through effective
implementation of motivational theories...........................................................................................9
D1 Evaluate of the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that enables teams
and organisations to succeed..............................................................................................................9
TASK 3...............................................................................................................................................10
P3 Understanding of effective and ineffective team and their comparison......................................10
M3 Analyse of team development theories for development of cooperation in various teams of
Sainsbury.........................................................................................................................................12
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................12
P4 Application of philosophies of organisational behaviour in Sainsbury.......................................12
M4 Justification and evaluation of range of concepts and philosophies influence Sainsbury in
positive or negative manner.............................................................................................................13
D2 Critically analyse and evaluate the relevance of team development theories in the context of
organisational behaviour concepts and philosophies that influence behaviour in the workplace.....14
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is defined as the study of human behaviour and performance
towards an achievement of organizational goal or objective in an appropriate manner. Also, it
is regarded as a process which empowers managers or leaders to direct the business and its
operations along with building relationships amongst various functional unit of an
organisation in order to attain sustainable growth. Apart from this, working culture of an
organisation plays significant role as it impact positively or negatively over employee’s
attitude or response towards business objective (Burrell and Morgan, 2019). Also, motivation
is another factor which is considered as an essential aspect which enables managers to
acquire increased level of personnel engagement into business activities that benefits the
entity and enhance their productivity. Hence, in context of this project Sainsbury is selected
which is a UK supermarket chain. Sainsbury is the third largest supermarket chain holding
around 15.3% market share of supermarket segment in UK. The company was founded in
1869 by John James Sainsbury and headquartered in Holborn, London. It is public limited
company and listed on London Stock Exchange and Financial Times Stock Exchange.
TASK 1
P1 Organisation culture, power and politics and their influence on individual and team
behaviour
Organisational culture is guide provided to the members and individuals in company for
managing and influencing their behaviour. It includes experiences, philosophies, values and
expectations of organisation from staff and other related parties. Organisational culture
includes vision and mission statement, norms, systems, symbols and language of company
which members follow and influencing their behaviour. Few cultures present in organisation
are highlighted below:
 Person culture- In some organisations personnel’s believes and thinks that they are
more important than the entity they are working in. individuals are more concerned
about themselves rather than the organisation and others working with them (Chang
and et. al., 2016)Company who has this culture takes a back seat and eventually
suffers as employees become self-centred and they keep themselves and their
objective first rather than the organisation.

 Power culture- There are some organisations in which all the authority and power
remains in few hands that is considered as power culture. This culture has one or two
leaders who hold all the authority to make decisions and control plans or strategies of
company. All rapid decisions are taken by top level management or few people who
has all the power and therefore vertical structure is suggested for company who has
this culture. It will affect Sainsbury teams and its members in negative manners,
employees will start feeling less important and this will demotivate them and detach
them from company.
 Role culture- In this culture roles and responsibilities are assigned to employees in
accordance with their expertise and specialisation. Different functional units are
created by grouping bundle of individuals for attaining specific objectives or goals.
Divisional structure of organisation is recommended and best suited for entities
adopting role culture. For Sainsbury role culture is suggested as it is best suited for the
company because of its various divisions and huge employee base.
Organisational power is an ability or capability of company structure, by which
management utilize all resources effectively for development and betterment of organisation.
Power is basically ability individual have over other to get things done in their way and
required manner, they control them and make them perform task according to them (Chumg
and et. al., 2016). Some types of power which managers have in organisation structure to
manage and influence the behaviour of employees or their teams are as follows:
 Reward power- It a power which leaders have, it enables them to appreciate their staff
and by rewarding them according to their skills or their performances. This power is
useful for motivating people and influencing them to work harder by pushing
themselves to achieve better positions in organisation. This power is applicable in
Sainsbury, managers can use this power to motivate their team members attaining
efficient results and benefiting both the organisation and achieving their personal
goals.
 Coercive power- Coercive power makes personnel belief that they are lacking and do
not have enough competitive skills and they are not complying with the needs of
organisation. It’s a forcing style of getting thing done with all negative effects on
personnel and teams (Coccia, 2015). Practicing this power is not at all suggestive for
Sainsbury as it will demotivate employees and increase dissatisfaction in them.