Influence of Organizational Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behavior and Performance

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Ways in which organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance..........................................................................................................1
Critically Analyse ways in which culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour and performance.........................................................................3
Evaluate ways in which content and process theories of motivation and motivational
techniques enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context..........................3
Critically evaluate way to influence the behaviour of others through the effective application
of behavioural motivational theories, concepts and models........................................................5
Effectiveness of an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team ........................................6
Team group development theories for supporting development of cooperation within teams...7
Tuckman theory: .........................................................................................................................7
Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context
......................................................................................................................................................8
Evaluate ways in which concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence behaviour
within a given business situation.................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS............................................................................9
Recommendations........................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour can be defined as a kind of study that can help in understanding
behaviour of people within an organization so that study of overall performance of employees
can be done and ways in which organizational activities can impact employee motivation,
performance, job structure, leadership, communication and many more can be analysed
(Buchanan and Huczynski, 2019). It is extremely important for company’s to have brief
knowledge of organizational behaviour as it can help in analysis of behaviour and performance
of employees, factors that can directly impact performance and motivational level of employees
and ways in which overall relationship of employees and firm can be strengthened. This
assignment will lay emphasis upon provision of advice on organisational behaviour as a concept
and practice to Primark organization.
Primark is an Irish fast fashion retailer that was established in 1969 who’s main
headquarter is in Dublin, Ireland. It is also a subsidiary of a British food processing retail
company known as ABF (Associated British Foods Plc). This assignment will focus upon e
influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others in an organisation, ways to
motivate individuals and teams, ways to cooperate effectively with others, and concepts and
philosophies of organisational behaviour.
MAIN BODY
Ways in which organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance
Influence of Organizational culture
Organizational culture is a kind of a system which is collection of expectations, values,
and practises that helps in informing and guiding actions of all team members and other
employees of an organization (Buchanan and Badham, 2020). It can also be defied as collection
of traits that provides support to company so that it can achieve their defied organizational
objectives. It further helps in fulfilling customers expectations, and develop more accurate level
of interconnection with outside world. There are three main types of organizational culture that
are:
 Power culture: In this type of culture power is handled by only few people who are at top of
hierarchy. Such kind of individuals can influence productivity level of organization in both
positive and negative manner (Davis, Hennes and Raymond, 2018). This type of culture
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directly influence individuals working within an organization as in such type of culture lower
position people do not have any kind of power and has to accept this difference in power.
 Task culture: It is a kind of culture in which different kinds of teams are developed in order
to resolve different kinds of problems (Lund,Cohen and Scarles, 2018). It is one of the most
common type of culture that can directly influence team behaviour because in order to
resolve problems effectively it is important for teams to perform properly and behave in an
effective manner.
 Person Culture: In such type of culture people see themselves as unique personality and more
superior than firm. This type of culture influences overall performance of organization
because people of this type of culture feel that they are superior then firm due to which their
performance can impact their as well as organization performance
It is important for organizations like Primark to have positive and appropriate
organizational culture as it will help them in developing strong relationship with employees,
develop strong bond between teams as well as will further help them in enhancing their
employees and organization overall performance.
Influence of Organizational politics
Organizational politics can be defied as an irrational behaviour of individuals within an
organization that can directly impact or influence teams, individuals, as well as their overall
performance in both positive and negative manner (Nayak, Armitage and Andrachuk, 2016).
Behaviour of teams and individual can be influenced due to organizational politics as people can
criticise each other for their own profit or can participate in negative activities of pulling leg of
others.
Positive and negative influence of organizational politics: Positive organizational politics can
help in gaining competitive advantage if people have positive political skills. Political skills can
help in motivating employees and help in enhancing their overall performance. Whereas negative
organizational politics can create conflicts among people because of which overall performance
of individuals as well as team performance as well as behaviour can be influenced (Zhu, Gardner
and Chen, 2018). Organizational politics within Primark can either help in achieving their main
organizational goals and objectives and strengthen relationship of employees with employer or
can create conflict within organization because of which overall behaviour of teams can be
impacted.
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