Culture, Politics and Power in Organizational Behaviour

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................3
LO 1.............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Culture, politics and power which can influence performance and behaviour of
individual............................................................................................................................3
LO 2 ............................................................................................................................................6
P2 Content, process and other techniques of motivation...................................................6
LO 3.............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.........................................................8
LO 4...........................................................................................................................................11
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour.............................................11
CONCLUSION .........................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organization behavior is considered as a study related human behavior as well as all
the actions of an individual that are related to the organization. It focuses on the study that are
related to the behaviors of the human primary focuses on their organizational roles. It
determines the influences of the individuals within the working environment on motivation,
job structure, leadership and many more. The situation becomes worst when the two
employees are not thinking within the same manner. Primark is well reputed Irish fashion
retailer. It's headquarter is in Dublin, Ireland . This firm is a subsidiary of retail firm
Associated British foods and food processing firm. It was founded within the year 1969 by the
Arthur Ryan. It has around 78,000 employees and served within the nation Germany, Austria,
France, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom and many more (Cook, 2018). This report focuses on
Politics, culture and power impact over behavior and performance of team and individual. It
also lay emphasis on motivating employees and teams so that they can easily accomplish
goals. It focuses on Content, process and other techniques of motivation. Furthermore, it lay
emphasis on Effective team and an ineffective team as well as Concepts and philosophies of
organizational behavior (Podsakoff, Mackenzie and Podsakoff, 2016)
LO 1
P 1 Culture, politics and power which can influence performance and behaviour of individual
There are several factors that impact on individual and team performance to great extent.
Culture, power are considered as most essential components that can influence the working of
persona and can also influence the performance of business unit as well.
Impact of culture
Handy's model of organizational culture- This model was given by Charles Handy who
had a leading authority in the culture of organization. This model is divided into four parts of
culture (Hauser and et.al., 2018).
 Power Culture- This aspect of culture states that there are few rules and regulations in
this culture. Primark selects only a few people and assign them with power which
allows them to take decisions that no one else can. People who have high power in the
Primark influences other employees in the Primark to have this kind of power.
Employees are judged on the basis of their achievements rather than their reactions and
process of work in accomplishing the task. This leads to take quick decision making

which may not help the Primark to achieve growth in the market. It means that they
will chose what's best for them not for the benefit of the Primark which can help them
in the long run. This type of culture is considered as one of the strongest culture as
compared to others but it can be toxic as employees can broke the ethics to pursue this
power (McShane and et.al., 2018). If power is in the hand of single person and only
one person can make decisions then it can affect performance of employees because if
top management of Primark is taking decision and promoting biasness then it may
demotivate others hence performance of other employees will get down and they will
fail to work well in team hence that would impact negatively on team performance. If
employees are not working well in team, then it would hamper organizational
performance to great extent (Zhang, 2020).
 Role Culture- It is the culture in which interaction between each team members in
highly controlled by specific company’s rule. Many companies have adopted this
culture as this gives a Primark highly controlled structure and employees working in
the Primark is aware of their roles and responsibilities. Power in this aspect of culture
is judged by what position an individual is working in the company. This culture is
suitable for companies such as Primark as their structure is tall with a long chain of
command. The process of implementing this culture takes too much time. If there are
strict rules, then people feel under pressure which indirectly impact on their working
performance. By this way team goal is not achieved and entity fail to meet its
organizational goal timely (Corr and et.al., 2016).
 Task Culture- This culture helps companies to solve a problem by forming up a team
for a specific period of time or until the task is finished. Power in this culture is
determined on the basis of potential of the team members or status of the problem.
Companies who are adopting this culture must make sure that their employees are
highly skilled and have abilities such as leadership and decision making so that they
can accomplish the task in productive manner (Muchiri, Shahid and Ayoko, 2019). As
person has to perform their allotted work and this task is allotted by considering their
capabilities hence employee feel comfortable in doing that task which help in raising
their performance level. If workers are incapable of doing allotted work then they fail
to meet the standards hence team efficiency will be affected which will create complex