Organisational Behaviour Analysis of Unilever: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation, and Effective Teams

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................1
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context...........................................4
P3 Explain what makes an Effective Team as opposed to an Ineffective Team .......................6
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organizational
context and given business situation...........................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is study or observation of the behaviour of individual or group of
worker on workplace and their effect on the work output of the staff and profitability of the
organisation (Aigbavboa, Akinshipe and Mutshaeni, 2020). These studies help to find the
adaptation of persons according to the personal history that the will able to do work assigned to
him. By matching the required behavioural skill Human resource department choose the best
talent among the available pool of potential work force. It is very helpful in testing the pressure
tackling quality of the personnel. In this report Unilever company has been taken into
consideration for organisational behavioural analysis. Unilever is a UK based MNC which deals
in majorly in many product category which include Foods and Refreshments, Home Care, and
Beauty & Personal Care. Unilever was founded in September 1929, By the merger of the British
soap maker Lever Brothers and the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie. Following report
include organisation work culture observation, internal politics and power dominance on
individual as well as group behaviour and performance. Then estimation of how employees get
motivated according to motivation literature and how it contribute in the achievement of
organisational goals. Then in the report differentiation is done between effective and in effective
team in order to find the corrective measure to turn ineffective team into effective one. Unilever
behavioural analysis will be conducted and Problem detection and solution recommendations is
provided in conclusion.
MAIN BODY
P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Charles handy gives us a Charles handy model of organisation which enable us to find the
organisation culture, through observing the Four factors which includes the following :-
 Culture:- mean the decision taking process which consist of authorities and
responsibilities provided to take decision is spread over person or centralised to one or
one body of persons (Alblas and Wijsman, 2021). Both have their pros and cons if
company follow centralise management then it take fast decision but compromise on
mutual consent. If they fallow decentralised structure then decision lays and loss of
opportunities will be faced but easy acceptance by work force. In context of Unilever
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adopted hybrid version of management in which the palace needed fast decision making
they centralised it and the palace where delay can be tolerated decentralised management
adopted.
 Task Culture:- Is the formation of teams company adopt in order to accomplish the task
assigned. So they team up with specialized and generalised personnel in a proportion that
the cost of such team will be least and operational efficiency to the highest. Unilever
follow a team head with specialised knowledge and other member with general
knowledge.
 Person Culture:- In this culture personnel give preference to their interest over
organisational goal. So they are working for sake of money only. They will
definitely so things due to which company have to suffer. In case of Unilever
company only choose loyal persons over more talent but not loyal. They see their
past records with other companies to find their nature.
 Role culture:- In this culture every personnel is assigned a job or task in which
they are specialised and willing to do with all responsibilities as that work is
owned by them. Unilever follow this culture as well. They assign specific heads
for particular function in order to make a effective and specialised management for
organisation. This will also train future high post management staff.
Culture of Unilever influences productivity to 2x level as they follow balanced
power according to the requirements of the departments. They provide target to
employees to make them more effective. Personal culture not present in the organisation.
Roles are designated so in problem of confusion and miscommunication so company
work smoothly.
Politics
It refer the way the management or the personnel use their power and position in
the organisation. Management can exploit the power in order to influence organisation
toward success or it can be destructive at times. Michael Jaraett provided 4 type of
politics are:-
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