Influence of Workgroups, Power, and Politics on Organisational Culture: A Case Study of Hilti Corporation

management

Executive summary
Every company has a defined organisational culture by which goals and objectives can be
attained and achieved. The culture of the organisation refers to values, assumptions, and
beliefs, which are collectively shared by all the team members of the company. Teamwork is
renowned in a sense to affect the character of the organisation as it affects the organisational
structure, performance, and values. Organisational culture is a framework by which an
organisation can achieve the goals. If the company lacks its organisational, culture and is
confused for its operational processes. The effectiveness of the team severely depends on
organisational culture. Apart from this, interest groups have their personal interest, which has
conflict between employees that ultimately hampers organisational goals. As a result,
aggravation of infrastructure and structure regarding the achievement of crucial goals of the
business enterprise. By considering relationships between several teams, politics, power, and
corporate culture where report analyses the influence the workgroups, power, politics, and
team on organisational culture.

Contents
Executive summary...............................................................................................................................1
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Influence of workgroups and teams on organisational culture.............................................................3
Influence of politics and power on the organisational culture..............................................................6
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................9
References...........................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
This report discusses on cultural journey in “Hilti Corporation” which will study the cultural
journey that will analyse the advantage of some initiatives. This discussion will carry specific
measures, which will consider corporate culture and focus on developing employees and
managers. Hilti designs and makes leading-edge technology, services related to software that
finally empowers the professional construction industry (Hilti Corporation, 2018a). The
company is global and it is based on 120 countries with more than 28000 employees (Lai,
Lam, and Lam, 2012). The company offers 360-degrees service for construction purpose that
starts from software for designs, tools for work sites to train, test, consult, and repair.
Moreover, in order to ensure products with high quality and standards, Hilti Corporation
produces its own products in its factories with the external partners. As the company is
privately owned founded by Martin Hilti in 1941 (Hilti Corporation, 2018a). The report
undertakes the discussion on critical discussion on organisational culture that is being
influenced by workgroups and teams and power and politics. Hitli Corporation is a company
that has positive organisational culture regarding to power and politics. Leadership affects the
work culture; a leader can exercise the power to affect the organisation culture (Hilti
Corporation, 2018b).
There always exists struggle for the scarce resources in every organisation. According to
Cooper, C. and Barling, J. (2008), Politics and influence are the common actions, the
behaviours through which potential power can be exercised more. Power is mainly the ability
to get things done the way one wants them to be done. This report will first observes
efficiently how groups and teams affect the culture of Hilti Corporation and then it will
discover the influence of politics and power on the company`s culture (Hilti Corporation,
2018a).