The role of organizational culture, politics and power in effective team performance

Organizational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Impact of organizational culture, politics and power on an individual behaviour and team
performance............................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2: Context and process theory of motivation impact on effective achievement of goals and
targets.....................................................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3: Formulation of an effective team as opposed to an effective group................................6
P4: Concept of path goal theories in order to achieve sales target by the workers................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Every organisation has their unique or different environments number of employees comes with
distinct culture, values, ethics and attitudes and all are work together for organisation success. An
organization is the group of people who comes from different culture group and have different
moral values. It is the duty of the organization manager to know about the various different
attitude of employees in a properly manner so that the work in between the employees is divided
according to their skills and knowledge. The organizational behaviour is primarily focused on the
human attitudes, actions which is quite necessary for organisational achievements. It examines of
human nature during at individual performances, group wise performances and organisation level
performances. To understand deeply about the organisational culture, we take the example of
Samsung organisation it was formed by LEE BYUNG CHUL in year 1938 now its became
multinational company of South Korea. This assignment also shows effects of organizational
environments, politics and competency on the employee’s behaviour and also on his
achievement’s as well as on whole team. An effectual team work always gives better results. The
objectives and targets are achieved by the company and their team in an effective manner when
both support each other in an appropriate manner (Benjamin, 2012).
TASK 1
P1: Impact of organizational culture, politics and power on an individual behaviour and team
performance
Culture means the person attitudes or behaviour, moral values or ethics which used while
performing the task or work to achieve the organisation objectives. The culture also highlights
the employees and managements behaviours towards each other when they handling the business
transactions. The organisation culture mainly shows the employees way to dress, business
working hours, office infrastructure, employees’ rewards both monetary and non-monetary, total
business turnover, and include all aspects which directly or indirectly impacts on business
transactions.
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Organizational culture defined four different kinds of culture:
Power culture: This culture shows the decision-making power of the top- management while
executing the plans in organisation. It’s also include how the top managements use the power to
handle the lower employees for achieving the set goals or targets. In organisation hold maximum
and main power required to utilise their power for the benefits for organisation growth and
employee’s welfare.
Role culture: In this culture the roles and responsibilities of each and every employee clearly
define according to their skills, knowledge and experiences. This culture shows the performances
of both top leader and the employees or members the departments of every organisation acts as
strong pillars for accomplishment of organisation objectives. All the workers of organisation
have appropriate job responsibilities and they work accordingly. The top management always
supports their employees to accomplishment of their roles and achieve the goals.
Task culture: This culture is used in the organization, when the manager assigned task to each
team. Task culture is concerning about to get the perfect workers which works together to
accomplished the assigned tasks. This kind of culture is telling about team work and this team is
lead by the expert which has an expert power.
Person culture: The person culture is mostly used in the organization. In the organization
different culture of individual comes and join the organization and feels that he/she is very
special and unique to the organization. With this culture the organization can achieve their
targets with the different culture of people.
Samsung company culture is the unique culture that’s why the company makes good
goodwill in the market due to this culture. The company has a different culture of group of
people which helps them to manufacture the highly quality products and new innovative
products for the customers with the help these workforces. On the other hand, this effective
organizational culture allows the workers to do their task in more effectual and appropriate
manner (Crommelinck and Anseel, 2013).
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