How an Organisation's Culture, Politics and Power Influences Individual and Team Performance

And managing people
in organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context...........................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team............................8
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and a given business situation......................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour can be referred to as the study of the individual and group
performances and the activities which take place within the organisation. It mainly study the
human behaviour in the working environment and determine the impact of the behaviour on the
job structure, communication, performance, motivation, etc. Studying the human behaviour in
the enterprises gives the insight of how workforce perform and behave in a workplace. A better
understanding is built in order to motivate the employees and enhance their performance. It also
help the companies to establish the trustworthy and strong relationships with the employees. It
can be said that it is an inter disciplinary approach which focuses on studying the human
behaviour at the work (O'Grady, 2018). The organisation chosen for this report is Burberry, a
luxury fashion house in London, UK. It is a fashion industry which currently distribute and
design ready wear clothes, leather goods, accessories, eye wear, cosmetics and fragnances. This
report shall cover the influence of power, politics and culture on behaviour and performance of
employees, motivational theories, effective and ineffective teams and philosophies and concept
of organisational behaviour.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Organisational culture is referred to as the collection of the expectations, values and the
practices which guide and inform the actions of the team members. The culture of the
organisation sets the expectation as to how employees must behave, work and function as the
team.
Organisational politics is the self serving behaviour which workforce uses to enhance the
probability of obtaining the positive outcomes in the company. This may affect the performance
of the organisation in a negative way and leads to demotivation of employees and increase the
stress level (Pathak and Srivastava, 2020).
Organisational power is referred to as the ability of a organisational structure that utilises
the mandatory resources in favour of the company's development. It is mainly the ability to
influence the human behaviour . The power can be measured by an extent where an influence in
made on the stakeholders to do or not to do anything.

Influence of culture
In order to identify the organisational culture, a model is made by Charles Handy which
has defined four kinds of organisational culture which include the following- Power- Under this culture, the power is held within few people of the organisation whose
influence is spread throughout the workplace. The rules and regulations are decided by
the people who have power in their hands and the employees are judged by what they
have achieved rather than how they make things happen or react. The process of decision
making is quick as power to to make decision lies in few hands. This power culture is a
strong one but can be turned out to be toxic sometimes (Zhuang and et. al., 2020). Role- In this culture, the employees know about their roles and responsibilities. The
power in this culture is determined by the position of the individual that is, its role in an
organisational culture. There lies a long chain of command and the decision making
process tends to be slow. The organisations with role culture are normally bureaucratic. Task- This culture is mainly formed to address the projects or problems. Teams are
formed in this culture which address the problems and projects. In order to make this
culture effective, it will be determined by a team dynamic. Having the right mixture of
the skills, leadership and personalities, the culture can turn out to be effective as team
work will be creative and productive.
 Person- Under this culture, the individuals feels they are superior and unique than the
organisation. It is made up of the different people who work for the same company. It is
suitable for the lawyers or accountants. Here the power lies in the hand of each group of
the individual (Althonayan, 2017).
Burberry follows role culture in their organisation where power lies in the hand of the
person according to its position or role in the workplace. This culture helps the company to make
developments and each individual work to grow and develop one another. The employees share
their knowledge, passion and experience so that work can be done in teams and trust,
appreciation and great relationships are build which helps in motivating one another. This culture
helps Burberry to improve its productivity and enhance the efficiency of the employees. Like
this, it impact the individual and the team.