Organisational Cultures and Workforce

Organisational Cultures and
Workforce

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
LO1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Impact of organisation culture, politics and power over individual and team behaviour
in company.............................................................................................................................3
LO2............................................................................................................................................5
P2. Impact of content and process theory of motivation technique in goal achievement......5
LO3............................................................................................................................................7
P3. Differences between effective team and ineffective team...............................................7
LO4..........................................................................................................................................11
P4. Concept and Philosophies of organisation behaviour....................................................11
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is about the behaviour of individual in context to corporate
organisation. Emphasis of the organisation behaviour study in on the individual behaviour
and attitude in respect to culture of corporate organisation (Aga, Noorderhaven and Vallejo,
2016). This report is based on the case study of Primark Company. Company is a Ireland
based company operate its business operations in retail sector. Company inititiated its
business operations in the year 1969. Arthur Ryan was the founder of the company.
Henceforth, this report wills emphasis over the influence of culture, politics and power of the
company over the objectives and goals of company. Impacts of content and process theory of
motivation and motivation techniques over achieving organisation goals and objectives.
Furthermore, this report will also project the differences between effective team and
ineffective team. In the later part of this report concepts and philosophies of organisation
behaviour will also apply in context to the Primark Company.
LO1
P1. Impact of organisation culture, politics and power over individual and team
behaviour in company
Hofstede Cultural Theory
Hofstede cultural theory is an effective model emphasis over the impacts of culture of
company in achieving over business objectives of company. This model has an emphasis over
the following cultural aspects of the Primark Company.
Power culture: Power culture is an effective tool used under the organisation hierarchy of
Primark Company. This model has an emphasis over allocating power in the organisation
structure of company only to few peoples regarding crucial decision making and other
effective processes to operate the business operations. As per the theory management body of
Primark Company allocated powers too few peoples in every operational department in
regards to all the crucial decision making related to the respective departments.
Task Culture: Task culture is also a part of the organisation structure of Primark Company.
Based on the concept of task culture management of Primark company form teams time to
time to operate certain tasks in the company (Chiu, Owens and Tesluk, 2016). Based on the

needs of the individual tasks team are formed in the company. Task culture improves the
individual and team bonding in the company
Person Culture: Person culture is also a crucial aspect of the organisation behaviour of the
Primark Company. Due to the person culture in the organisation structure management of the
Primark Company give equal opportunities to all employees in company in order to develop
and grow in company. Person culture in company improves the value of employee’s in
company that also drives employee’s motivation to work more efficiently.
Role Culture: Role culture is also a crucial cultural aspect of the Primark Company. This
cultural aspect drives the company management to allocate defined role related to operational
functions of company. Allocation of defines roles and designations in company enables
employee’s of company to work in a specific direction with clarity in mind. This cultural
aspects supports employee’s to achieve higher operational efficiency in company.
French and Raven theory of Power
Management of Prima Company follows the concepts of French and Raven theory to
maintain an effective power culture in the company. This theory has an emphasis over the
following powers in context of corporate organisations.
Legitimate Power: Legitimate power involves authorised powers of individual employee’s
in company. As per the theory all employee’s in company get some authorised power to meet
all responsibilities attached with the job role.
Reward Power: Reward power also use in the organisation culture of Prima Company. As
per the reward power all employees in company involved with high productivity and
efficiency get effective rewards and performance based incentives from the company in
against to the productive and efficient performances (Corbets, Willy and Bischoff, 2017).
This power motivates employees of company to perform more productive operations.
Expert Power: Expert power is associated with allocating powers related to the decision
making process in organisation structure. Based on the skills, experiences and efficiencies of
employee’s employee get this power in the company to improve the operational efficiency.
Referent Power: Referent power is also a crucial power involved in power culture of
company. The entire employee’s of company involved in productive performances get
benefits of this power. This power involve in conducting promotional activities in Prima