Impact of Power, Culture, and Politics on Organizational Behavior

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1 Analyse how power, culture as well as politics impact on team and individual behaviour of
an organisation............................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P2 Process & content theories of motivation in an organisational context.................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3 Effective and Ineffective teams.............................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P4 Concepts & philosophies of organisational behaviour in an organisational context...........11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is termed as the study as well as application as well as
knowledge about behaviour and performance associated to various factors of a company such as
technology, structure, social system and so on. In addition to this, it create an insight which
influence staff members, raise their performance & develop a strong and effective relationship
between workers (Aderibigbe, Nwokolo and Oluwole, 2019). For the present report, Sainsbury's

is chosen as a base company. It is second largest supermarket chain in UK which was established
in the year 1869. The company has superstore, forecourt shop, convenient shop and at present it
has around 1430 shops globally. The report will cover the impact of culture, politics and power
on behaviour and performance of teams as well as individuals. Along with this, different process
and content theories were described in context to an organisation. Furthermore, there is a
discussion about effective and ineffective teams along with team development theory. In the last,
concepts as well as philosophies of organisational behaviour is elaborated in the report.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how power, culture as well as politics impact on team and individual behaviour of an
organisation
It is expressed that organisational behaviour has direct impact on the productivity and
profitability of an organisation. There are different factors that influence on teams and
individuals performance such as power, politics, culture and many more. These factors is
described below in context to respective organisation:
Power:
It is basically an authority or right of an individual to assign task, manage project and
control activities of an organisation. In almost every company, the power is in the hands of high
level authority due to which all the activities is implemented in a systematic manner. As per the
view point of French and Raven, power is mainly of five forms, which are as follows:
Legitimate power: In this type of power, higher authorities, CEO and owners of a
company has the right to participate within the decision making procedure (Balwant, 2018). In
context of Sainsbury's, adoption of such type of power develop negative mind set of emp0loyees
and arise issues at workplace.
Reward power: It is determined that in this type of power, the higher authorities has the
right to give awards, appreciation, recognition to the staff members as per their performance
level. The managers of Sainsbury's ensures that its employees get rewards of their performance
which motivate them to work towards achievement of objectives within stipulated time period.
Expert power: Herein, the decision making power is in hands of professional and
experts in order to execute activities. It develop positive mind set of staff members and boost
their morale that impact positively on their performance as well as productivity level.

Referent power: In this, the power is in the hands of few people to take decision,
manage and control activities. This impact negatively on mind of employees as they did not have
right to participate due to which their creativity level is declined (Barzoki and Rezaei, 2017). It is
significant for Sainsbury's to give rights to all the deserving employees so that they can
implement activities and attain objectives of company.
Coercive power: Herein, the top level authorities impose staff members to follow
guidelines and instruction effectively and properly. In addition to this, they also have the right to
punish employees if instructions is not followed by them. This arise a negative mind set of staff
members which in turn reduces performance and profitability of respective organisation.
It is analysed from the above discussion that an appropriate and suitable type of power
for Sainsbury's is reward power. It help company to motivate its employees to work with full
potential in order to achieve objectives within given time frame.
Politics:
It arise when communication and interaction take place between the employees of an
organisation. It is basically of two forms that is negative politics and positive politics as well. In
relation to Sainsbury's, negative politics may arise issues and conflicts and occur lack of trust
within the employees. In addition to this, it also develop a competition in employees that affect
negatively on the performance and profitability of an organisation. On the other hand, positive
politics enhance the performance of subordinates and also develop positive working environment
at workplace.
It is analysed that development of positive politics within the company develop strong as
well as healthy relationship between the staff members of Sainsbury's. This will directly leads to
raise in market performance and profitability of respective organisation.
Culture:
It is defined as norms, values, beliefs, opinions, ethics, ideologies of an individual
prevailing within an organisation. In addition to this, it is significant for an organisation to
provide positive working culture to staff members and ensure that an effective relationship is
build between the employees (Dunphy, 2016). With the help of Hnady's Typlogy, culture is if
four types that is given below in relation to Sainsbury's:
Power culture: In this form of culture, the decision making is in the hands of few
members of company that is CEO, managers and so on. This develop conflicts and issues