Organizational Behaviour - Arcadia group Sample Assignment

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1 ................................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Impact of culture, politics and power of an organisation on the behaviour and performance
of the individual and team......................................................................................................3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P 2 Content and process theory of motivation that help to motivate employees to achieve
target.......................................................................................................................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P 3 Effective team as opposed to ineffective team ................................................................8
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................10
P4. Applying concept and philosophies of OB....................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
Tuckman: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing model........................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour refers to the set of some activities consisting in management
study. In which the different kind of knowledge is being consider such as action of people within
an organisation. It refer as the tool that give benefits to the human or employees of the
organisation. It considers with the production, control and understanding of the human behaviour
in the organisation. This study of organisational behaviour is based on the Arcadia group, which
is British multinational retailing company. Headquarter of Arcadia group is in London, United
Kingdom. This Arcadia group owns different high street clothing retailers like Dorothy Perkins,
Evans, Topman, Wallis and Miss Selfridge and also the out of town chain outfit, which work as
the line chain outfits and sells lines from other group. Arcadia group has more than 2,500 outlets
within the UK.
This study will consist, analysis the influence of different politics, culture and power on
the behaviour of the employees within the organization. This will explain how to motivate
employees to work effectively by applying the motivational theory. Furthermore this study of the
organizational behaviour of Arcadia group demonstrate how effective team work and element
that make effective team as opposed to ineffective team. Lastly concepts and philosophies of
organizational behaviour within Arcadia group.
LO 1
P 1 Impact of culture, politics and power of an organisation on the behaviour and performance of
the individual and team
Organizational politics refer to the variety of activities and process that consist with the
influencing of organizational and personal interest in improving the tactics in organization.
Where power in the organization refer to the authority in an organization, that affect the
thoughts, have ability to influence other employees by its process. It is the right to influence
other person in the organization (Musringudin, Akbar and Karnati, 2017). Organizational culture
includes the different expectations, value, philosophies and experience of employees that help to
interact and inner working condition of employees in organization.
Politics in the organization

Politics in the Arcadia organization refers to the irrational behaviour of the team and
individual in the organization that can not be controlled by the organization. This politics in the
Arcadia group create negativity at workplace.
Politics in the organization arise when employees of the Arcadia group do not want to
work hard, and they create the politics in the organization to make security of their position in
Arcadia group company (Pentland and Hærem, 2015). Another reason that create the politics by
the employees of Arcadia group is that, when employee want to popular in organization and also
want to come in lime light and also want attention from their seniors of the Arcadia group.
Influence on team and individual
As politics is the irrational behaviour of employees in the Arcadia group, that affect the
productivity of the organization by affecting the teams and individual in the organization.
Individual who want to gain attention from the top management and seniors of the Arcadia group
without doing any hard work and this affect the working capacity of the individuals as they do
not pay attention n their work, and as the team is consisting with different individuals of Arcadia
group, then the individuals who play politics in the organization also affect the working capacity
of whole team, they do not understand their role in the team, not actively participate in the group
decision. Individuals mostly concentrate on leg pulling of other employees and criticize them
(Miner, 2015).
This affect the performance and behaviour of the team and individuals. As by leg pulling
and criticizing, moral and confidence of other employees has reduced they do not concentrate on
their work affectivity. Because of this relation among the different employees also get spoiled,
and they do not work effectively as a team to achieve a common goal for the Arcadia group. As
individual mostly involved in politics and spoil the image of other employees in front of their
seniors. This situation affects the other employees that the attitude of the employees changed
because of the politics in Arcadia group and also dislikes by other as well. They do not
concentrate on their work but more concentrate to spoil the work of the others. This whole
situation and politics in Arcadia group affect their performance and behaviour of team and
individual as they do not behave positively in the organisation and relationship between
employees and superiors get spoiled. Superiors do not concentrate and try to terminate them.
This also influence the team behaviour, as individuals not cooperate with team members and
whole productivity get decreased and overall target not be achieved.