Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power

Organisational Behaviour

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual as well as team behaviour
and performance..........................................................................................................................1
M1 Critical analyses of the way culture, politics and power influence behaviour and
performance of individual and team...........................................................................................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P2 The way content and process theories of motivation enable effective achievement of goals
in an organisation........................................................................................................................6
M2 Critical evaluation of different ways to influence behaviour of others with application of
behavioural motivational theories and concept...........................................................................8
D1 Critical evaluation of relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that
enable team and organisation success.........................................................................................9
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9
P3 What makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.........................................9
M3 Team and group development theories that support development of cooperation within
effective team............................................................................................................................10
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................11
P4 Application of concept and philosophies of organisational behaviour within the
organisation...............................................................................................................................11
M4 Evaluation of the way concept and philosophies of OB inform and influence in the
organisation...............................................................................................................................11
D2 Critical analyses and evaluation of relevance of team development theories, concept and
philosophies that influence behaviour to improve business performance................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is the study if both the individual and the group in the
organization(Wood And eta.l., 2016). This study generally used to define the behaviour of
human in the work environment and try to determine the impact on job structure, performance,
communication, motivation, leadership, etc. Present study is based on the organisation Unilever
that is British transnational consumer goods company having its headquarter in London, UK.
This report highlights the impact of organizational culture, politics and power influence on the
team behaviour and performance in the organization with the help of applying the Handy's
culture model and French and the Ravens theory. After that the report goes on to highlights the
way through which content and process theories of motivation and motivation technique enable
effective achievement of goal in the selected organization. After that the report highlights role of
effective team with the help Tuckerman and Belbin theory and comparing the ineffective team
performance with the effective team in achieving the organizational goal. In the end the report
goes on to highlights concept and philosophy of organizational behaviour within organization
context and the given situation.
LO 1
P1 Organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual as well as team behaviour and
performance
Organisation culture:- There are some values and beliefs that people in an organisation share
among themselves and these values also govern the behaviour of working staff at Unilever. This
system is known as organisation culture.
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Illustration 1: Handy's four classes of culture

According to Charles Handy, there are four types of culture in an organisation and are as
following:- Power:- Organisation having power culture usually have few individuals that are in
power to easily influence working people and there are different rules and regulations
that are set for working staff. Here, the culture radiates from the centre and little
bureaucracy is there(McSherry and Pearce, 2018). Role:- The organisation having role culture is generally based of different rules and all
working staff is having delegated authorities. Here, power of an individual is based on the
position that person is having in organisational structure. Here the hierarchical
bureaucracy is seen and decision making is quite slow as they avoid taking risks. Task:- An organisation is having task culture whenever any team is formed in order to
deal with some problems or projects. Here, power is in hand of experts till the team
requires expertise and no single power source is there. Team is set free to have their own
risk and objectives in hand.
 Person:- Organisation with person culture is having employees with same backgrounds
and expertise. They believe themselves as superior and power lies within them.
Unilever is having Power culture where the leaders set different rule and regulations in
order to make the employees work effectively. Many times task culture is also been implemented
in the firm in order to complete various projects or to solve different organisational problems.
Organisation is also having person culture as all the working staff is expertise in there fields and
feel that they are superior(Govender, 2017).
Organisation Power:- It is basically the ability of an individual to make things happen
according to their own perspective. Leaders and managers at Unilever are having power in hand
to make the employees work according to there perspective.
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