Organizational Behavior: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Individuals and Teams in Tesco

Organizational behavior

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS..............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1 Presenting how organization’s culture, politics and power may influence the individual and
team..............................................................................................................................................3
M1................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Evaluating the content and process theories of motivation in Tesco.....................................5
M2................................................................................................................................................8
P3 Explaining what makes an effective team through models and theories................................8
M3..............................................................................................................................................10
D2 Critically analyzing team development theories..................................................................11
P4...............................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior (OB) is the academic study of how people can interact with
other people that helps to makes the organization more effective. Also, it is important because it
assist to analyze the effect of social and environmental factors that affect the team work. The
chosen firm for this report is Tesco which is one of the top and international firm in UK and
offers range of products to their customers which includes clothes, furniture and financial
services. The report will shed a light upon different theories used to motivate employees and
generate the best outcomes for the welfare of a firm. Also, the report will analyze how the
organization’s culture, politics and power may influence the team behavior as well as its
performance. Further, with the help of different content and process theories, current study let
Tesco know how to enable effective achievement of a goals. Moreover, through effective model,
report will determine what makes an effective team and how it can be opposed to an effective
team as well. Lastly, it will apply different concepts and philosophies of OB within an
organizational context by using an effective theory.
P1 Presenting how organization’s culture, politics and power may influence the individual and
team
Organisation's Culture defines as all the collection of value, practices and expectations
that can be informed and guide about the action of each individual in an organization. There are
various examples of entity's culture in terms of philosophy, experiences etc. it is necessary to
maintain specific customs, attitudes and beliefs for developing the business. According to
Charles Handy's organisation theory it is defines as cultural in four such categories role,
person, task and power.
Power- It refers to their situation where power only in hand of few people such as
managers, seniors etc (Fahlevi and et.al., 2019). only they have take special advantages of power
with enjoyment of privilege. In this cultural subordinates have no right to give their opinion in
front of others.
Role- It is a culture where the roles and responsibilities of the employees are authorized
according to the specialization of the person with the qualification his experiences. Role culture
also helps employees or subordinates to face the challenges and respect others by his capability.

Task- This is a system where four- five people come together in order to make the team
for particular task. All employees have specialization and knowledge about the task so that they
can help each other to complete it.
Person- In this cultural employees are not concerned about the organization but only
focus on his personal life (Abdullah and Anwar, 2021). The main motive is to earn money not to
attached with the organization in terms of loyalty and trust.
There are two types of politics in organization, both have different aspects such as:
Positive politics- It has been identified that positive politics related to skills that can be
done better for organization in order to manage the stress or workload within firm. It is also
provided competitive advantages to those who are well skilled.
Negative politics- This is situation where individual is not happy to with the job and
afraid of uncertainty and ambiguity by no self- interest to do something innovative or participate
in organizational task. It impacted bad on the job performance as well as low down the morale of
a person.
Raven and French five forms of power that includes with coercive, reward, legitimate, expert,
referent and information power.
Coercive- It is the power where forcing someone for doing something without their will,
this can be achieved by the punish someone. In this power employees can leave their jobs when
it is exceeded out of limit or abused.
Reward- The second power is related to the reward, it is the power related to providing
gifts or benefit to someone in order to appreciate. It is totally opposite to the coercive power, the
main motive is to influence other by getting reward for doing something (Janke and Handy,
2019).
Legitimate- This power is related to the position or formal relationship, like top-level
management elected as per the hierarchies and getting all the power for making rules for
workplace and society.
Expert- It refers to the power of individual expertise for influence others and trustworthy
for them, it is the last long power anyone can have by getting good and positive response from
the others.