Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Politics, Culture, and Power

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. How a company’s politics, culture and power influence individual and team behaviour
and performance.....................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2. Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal.................................6
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3.Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.....................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P4.Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and given business situation....................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
Books and Journals ..............................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
The study of behaviour of people in the organisation is known as organisation behaviour.
It determines the action and reaction of the people that affect the organisational environment.
One of the important resource of organisation is human resource so it is necessary to understand
the behaviour of the human. It helps to predict the nature of the organisational environment so
that organisation can achieve the objectives and goals with efficiency (Khan and et. al., 2020).
This report covers the meaning and purpose of organisation behaviour and it also covers the
organisation culture that influence the individual and team. It includes the philosophies that gives
the differences of effective and ineffective team.(Badawy, Kamel and Magdy, 2017) It shows
the motivational theories that help to achieve the organisational objectives with special reference
to TESCO. TESCO is the multinational company of British that located in England, United
Kingdom. It is the company that deals in the groceries that means it is the superstore.
TASK 1
P1. How a company’s politics, culture and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance.
Organisation Behaviour refers to the study of behaviour of human that influence the
organisational environment. Chester Barnard analysed that every individual have different type
of behaviour that directly affect the organisational behaviour. There are many factors that affects
the individual as well as team behaviour in organisation.(Yusof, Yaacob and Rahman, 2019) It
includes power, culture and politics that are explained in the below points:
Culture:
Organisational culture directly affect the individual behaviour in TESCO, because it is
the multinational company that have number of employees work in the organisation. So it is
obvious for the company that their culture is going to influence the individual and team
behaviour because everyone have different type of mindsets. Culture directly influence the
behaviour as positive culture creates positive environment that motivates the employees and
encourage towards organisational goals. Charles Handy mentioned four types of culture that are
explained below: Task culture:

In this type of culture teams are formed in organisation and after that they target the
particular or specific task that should be complete by effectively. TESCO make teams which
include some members that target some specific task which should be achieve within the time. It
makes easy to achieve the targets. Power Culture:
Power culture refers to the culture where there is one head that spreads the information in
hierarchy. In this type of culture the power is in one hand, it helps to provide direction with
certain rules and regulations.(Guo and Qiu, 2019) TESCO use this culture for top level
management when they take some decisions that announced in the other management levels. Role Culture:
In the role culture, the organisation run their business on rules that's why it is highly
controlled. Every person know their role and responsibilities in the organisation very well due to
this culture. In TESCO, role culture adopted by their board of members because they have the
power of delegate the authorities. Person Culture:
Person culture is adopted by companies like partnership because in this type of culture
persons feel that they are superior to companies. It includes accountants & lawyers type of
profession that uses person culture. This type of culture is not so much worthy for all type of
organisation because person feels that they are more superior to organisation.
From the above discussion TESCO used to make healthy culture for that they provide
clean, top-notch facilities and bright facilities (Srinivas, 2020). TESCO doesn't use person
culture because in this culture sometimes people avoid the organisational objectives. The best
culture form that suited to the TESCO is task culture and role culture because it is the
multinational company that performs many task and roles.
TESCO can be use Hofstede's cultural theory, it is founded by Geert Hofstede that shows
the impact of society's culture on individual and team behaviour in organisation.
Politics:
When people engage in the activities then it is the possibility of starting politics. Politics
is in pervasive nature because it can easily find in anywhere. It influence the member's behaviour
of organisation because it affects the thought process of people. Politics start where the people
involvement is higher. There are both aspects of politics that is negative or positive, it depends