Influence of Organizational Culture, Politics, Power, and Motivation on Behavior and Performance

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1 Ways in which organization's politics, power and culture influence individual and team
behavior and performance............................................................................................................4
Influence of culture......................................................................................................................4
M1 The culture, politics and power of an organization influence individual and team behavior
and performance...........................................................................................................................7
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P2 Ways in which process and content theories help organisation to achieve their goals...........7
M2 ways to influence the behaviour of others through motivational theories.............................9
D1 Relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation providing justified
recommendations.........................................................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3 Factors creating effective team as opposed to ineffective teams..........................................10
M3 Team development theories to support the development of cooperation within effective
teams...........................................................................................................................................13
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour in organisational context..............14
M4 Concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence behaviour within a given business
situation......................................................................................................................................16
D2 The relevance of team development theories, concepts and philosophies that influence
behaviour in the work place ......................................................................................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour refers to study of attitude and behaviour of individuals and
groups within an organisation. Organisational behaviour is a sum total of politics, power and
culture in business affecting individuals and teams. The following report is carried upon
Sainsbury's which is the second largest chain of supermarkets in UK. It was founded by John
James Sainsbury in London (Yadav and Punia, 2016). The report discusses a number of different
topics including the culture followed in organisation. There are a number of different theories of
motivation that are used by organisation to motivate employees in order to achieve
organisational goals. Along with it report discusses importance of team and various models
related to development of team. At the end of report discussions on philosophies and concepts in
relation to organisational context is made.
TASK 1
P1 Ways in which organization's politics, power and culture influence individual and team
behavior and performance
Vision statement of Sainsbury’s: Vision of organisation is to be most trusted retailer where
people love to work as well as shop.
Mission statement of Sainsbury’s: Mission of Sainsbury is to be the consumer’s first choice to
shop food and products of outstanding quality at great competitive costs.
Influence of culture
Organisational culture defines values and behaviour that are contributing to unique and
psychological requirements of a business. Handy defines culture into four different kinds which
are mentioned below:
 Power culture is a strong culture in organisation that is only held by a few members who
are influencing people throughout the organisation (Kaluza, Boer and van Dick, 2020).
 Role Culture is a culture that is defined by rules and responsibilities that are vested on
the hands of different individuals in an organisation.

 Task Culture cultivates in an organisation when teams in business are formed which
addresses specific projects.
 Person culture can be seen when an individual in organisation are looking at themselves
as superior or unique to organisation.
Cultural difference awareness is important in Sainsbury's as the organisation is
operating at different locations. People from different countries are representing their cultures in
business. Cultural difference awareness in organisation will enable Sainsbury's to deal with
limitless pool of talents, opinions, viewpoints and ideas (Thomsen, Karsten and Oort, 2016).
Hofstede's Model
There are different dimensions in Hofstede's theory which are mentioned below: Individualism/ collectivism: It is necessary for Sainsbury's to make sure that they are
focusing on individual goals of employees along with the group, team or organizational
goals. Masculine/ feminine: Sainsbury's needs to develop a feminine culture where the
difference between rules for men and women are less and they are treated as equals. Uncertainty/ avoidance: Sainsbury's develops low uncertainty avoidance so that the
employees are comfortable with changing systems. Time perspective: Sainsbury's is successfully adopting long term vision for sustainable
growth and short time period in order to deal with present scenarios.
 Indulgence/restraints: Sainsbury's uses indulgence as its culture so that they can
successfully allow gratification of basic drives that helps them to enjoy life and have fun.
When taking the vision and mission statement of Sainsbury’s into consideration
the organisation is majorly focusing on Task culture. Along with it they can also be
linked to individualism and collectivism effectively.
The Rise of Globalisation and digital economy have made organisations to deal with
multiculturalism. Organisations now require to make sure that they are creating cultural