Organisational Culture, Politics, Power and Motivation Theories in Aston Martin

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1. ...........................................................................................................................................1
P1. Determine how organisational culture, politics and power that influence to the individual
and team behaviour along with performances............................................................................1
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
P2. Discuss the Content and Process theory of motivation that enables to accomplish the
goals............................................................................................................................................5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................7
P3. Discuss the role of effective team in objective achievement. ..............................................7
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................9
P4. Illustrate the different concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within
organisational context.................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
The concept of Organisational behaviour is the practices of human behaviour as in
individual and group within an organisation. This is only examine in the area of behaviour as in
work environment and determines its impact on the job structure, performances, communication,
leadership and motivation factor (Aderibigbe, Nwokolo and Oluwole, 2019). This study helps to
develop an better understanding of the aspect which motivate employees, increase the
performances level through enhancing the effective training and development.
By determine organisation from automotive industry Aston Martin company, it is a
British independent manufacture of luxuries cars and textiles products firm. It was founded in
1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The main headquarter is located Gaydon, England,
United Kingdom. In this report the topics are considered to be highlight on culture, politics and
power of organisation and how its going to impact to the individual and team behaviour, assess
the content theory and process theory to accomplish the organisational goals (Ahmad and et. al.,
2020). Better understanding of effective team and its influence on ineffective team and at last the
concept of organisational behaviour on the business situation context.
Task 1.
P1. Determine how organisational culture, politics and power that influence to the individual and
team behaviour along with performances.
As every organisation is constantly focuses on their success and internal growth in
marketplace through the impact of culture, politics and power on individual and group people
behaviour in company premises. The short description about these organisation behaviour factors
are as Organisation culture refers to the system of shared values and attitudes which plan to
implement the actions that leads to decrease the overall company's productivity (Balwant., 2018).
The politics defines the interaction of any firm into political parties, some interest
communication groups as well as non governmental etc, that influence the negative influence the
operational activities and makes it complicated to perform and sustain in business or any other
form of environment. Apart of it, the powers to an organisation provides benefits in terms of high
competency of skills, designation, personality influence of individual as effective manner.
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Organisational Culture: It helps to enhance better understanding of particular organisational
culture studies in terms of work, certain rules and regulation, corporate traditions which makes
the work attributes in smooth way. It basically diminishes the factors of unwanted practises that
occurs negative influence in premises. In context of Aston Martin company, the effective impact
of culture can support to identify and better control to the workforce performance as well as
behaviour for internal and external perspectives. Meanwhile, the organisation culture usually
instruct about to developing employees performance as skills and forms a healthy relationship
with subordinates and superiors.
To understand the culture, there is Handy typology theory that consists about four kind of
culture are preceded by an organisation such as:
 Power Culture: In this factor of culture, the power is authorised by few individual
whose presence and impact in overall organisation premises. Power culture helps to
form a better strong and better decision making by that individual who is holding the
responsibility (Barbaranelli and et . al., 2019). In Aston Martin, the employees
performances get analyse by the superiors, also they allows to their subordinate for
contributing their view points as per to abiding the guidelines and direction of
supervisors.
 Person culture: According to this culture, the individuals are analyse themselves as
unique and superior in the organisation. An organisation relates with the person culture
is really just a collection of individual who is reliable to be working in the similar
organisation. Employees and other staffs are truly effective, professional and well
trained as they performed in systematic manner.
 Role Culture: In this type of culture, it highlights the performance and role culture
based that highly controllable where each employee known their duties in organisation
to perform. Similarly in Aston Martin, every person recognize their roles and
responsibility towards their job role. Whereas, the important uses of certain education
credentials, skills and job experiences (Burnes and et . al., 2018).
 Task Culture: In this culture, it is based to having clarity about the job duties perform to
the individual employee to achieve targets and resolve the critical issues. As in Aston
Martin, the influence of Task culture in team member where they optimise the task in
creative way as to accomplish a common objective.
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