Influence of Organization's Culture, Politics and Power on Individual and Team Behavior

Organization Behaviour
Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1 Influence of an organization's culture, politics and power on individual, team behavior and
performance............................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Process theories of motivation and motivational techniques............................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Effective and ineffective team...........................................................................................7
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P4 Concept and philosophies of organization behaviour.....................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organization's behavior is study of human behavior in organizational settings, and its
influence on organization or organizational process and growth. This study determines the
impact of human behavior on job structure, performance, communication, motivation, leadership
and much more (Wilson, 2017). This project is about the role of individual as well as team on
organizational behavior in a well known firm Arthur David and Company Limited that provides
production and distribution of fresh fruits, vegetables, bakery items and so on, as well as delivers
on daily basis in to hotels, restaurants, schools, etc. Apart from this, it shows motivational
theories to boost enthusiasm of employees individually and teams. Therefore this project mainly
aims on team efficiencies at A David co. ltd. Furthermore, this report also discuss about
philosophies of OB in various situations in a company.
P1 Influence of an organization's culture, politics and power on individual, team behavior and
performance
Organization's culture refers to fundamental beliefs, assumptions, values and
communication that contribute in psychological environment in a business, whereas power and
politics in business play huge role from directing or implementing decision to communication
among employees (Barry and Wilkinson, 2016). In every big or small businesses, impact of
power and politics depends on employees power, whether they positively use their power to
influence others or negatively. Organizational culture has a guiding role at A David Company, as
it does not directly affect long term goals of a company but target on individual's goals for
organizational objectives. The objective of A David Company allows its employees to feel value
of work and inspire them to get succeeded. Culture also restricts and set standards for employee's
behavior as some rules and regulations are necessary in organization. However is still not
possible to standardize each one's behavior in team or organization as whole in A David. In
addition to this when a certain organizational value is understood by A David's employees, it
become their priority and generate a sense of loyalty towards the enterprise. Also organization
culture not only affects inside an enterprise, but has an impact on society through various
channels like symbols, advertising, architecture, products and services. There are many channels
for A David Company to radiate society and the employees will understand the deeper values of
an organization. Great enterprise culture provides a working environment that attracts
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innovation, promote difference, and endure failure. Furthermore, rewards and appraisals also
impact on team performance and behavior of selected company.
Handy Culture Model: This model was given by Charles Handy that was a leading
authority on organizational culture proposed 4 different kinds of culture. These are:
1. Power Culture: This setup is defined as when power is in hands of few people of top
level authority and they are solely authorized for taking decisions (Gagné, Sharma and
De Massis, 2014). Like in Arthur David co ltd. Managers are supposed to take decisions
as per their power and then delegate. Employees have no choice but to follow guidelines.
2. Task Culture: This type of culture forms when organizations come together to achieve
some specific tasks. Powers in task culture can be shifted according to mix of team
members and status of problem, because task is a major thing to be considered very
importantly.
3. Role Culture: Organizations with role culture are based on roles. For instance, in Arthur
David co ltd. degree of control is high in role culture because everyone knows their roles
and responsibilities. Power in this culture is determined according to tasks and roles
assigned.
4. Person Culture: Some organizations are there in which individuals think that they are
more important than organizations. In such situation, Arthur David co ltd. Follow person
culture where employees can work for money only and never gets attached to the
company. Arthur David co ltd. should always make feel their employees that company
should be more important to them in every aspect.
Impacts of Handy Culture model: There can be so many impacts of this model in various
ways because they proposed 4 types of culture in organizations. Arthur David co ltd. also follows
this model and these 4 kinds of cultures leave impacts on individuals and team behaviour.
Following points show impacts of model in following ways:
Impact of Power Culture: This culture depicts that power is in hands of few people of top
level management. This situation will let differences among employees because here decisions
are to be taken by superiors and employees have to observe them and work accordingly (Gyekye
and Haybatollahi, 2015). One more big impact will be that few people cannot manage whole
decision making process and this will lead organizations towards disorganization in
management. This will also affect employee’s behaviour because they will feel unnoticed.
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