Unit 12 Organisational Behaviour

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse of organisation culture, power and politics to influence individual and team
behaviour.....................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2) Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques,
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context...........................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Demonstrate understanding about effective team, as differ to ineffective team....................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Organisation behaviour with it's philosophies and concept...................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The abbreviation OB stand for organisational behaviour which refers to the study of all
individuals and groups who are engaged in company operations and functions. The main motive
to study organisational behaviour is to analyse and understand the behaviour of individuals
within working environment of business. It also refers to the study of individuals to understand
that how people behave with other workers in organisation. This report is written from
perspective of Debenhams. It is a British multi-national retail organisation that operate its
business among various geographical locations. The headquarter of UK is based on Oxford
street, London from where management operates it different brands (Ahmady, Nikooravesh and
Mehrpour, 2016). Further, this report highlights on different theories of motivation to accomplish
organisation goals and understanding about aspects related with effective team and ineffective
team. Different concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour will also included in this
report.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse of organisation culture, power and politics to influence individual and team
behaviour
The term organisation power, politics and culture influence about performance and
individual in an appropriate manner. All factors demonstrate about positive and negative of
business which impact on development and growth of business.
Influence on team and individual related with power aspect
The term power aspect reflects about authority which is given to a particular employee's
for completing their work in an appropriate manner. Within context of Debenhams organisation
manage that individual are given equal authority according to their responsibilities. It helps
organisational team and individuals to perform their work in an effective manner such as to
complete task in a stipulated time period (Campbell and Göritz, 2014). French and Raven's
theory related with power is mention as follow:
 Legitimate power- The scope for legitimate power is limited because legitimate power is
limited and also offered to individuals according to their work experience. In the context
of Debenhams legitimate power generate complexity for individual and teams because of
unpredictable nature of power.
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 Reward power- Authorities of an organisation hold power that provide rewards to all
individuals according to their skill and capabilities. Promotion, rewards and incentive are
some aspects by which individual and team behaviour is impacted.
 Coercive power- The use of coercive power is implement among the departments of
Debenhams to manage and operate all activities and actions in an organised manner. This
refers coercive is also used for managing performance of individuals.
 Informational power- With the control on information it is easy to perform and
complete work according to decided goals of business. The access among financial
reports is an example of informational power (Chang and Lin, 2015). It also impact on
team and individuals as right information helps to improve individual behaviour.
 Referent power- This power undertakes from an individual that helps to obtain respect
all other persons. Example- Celebrities are in power to influence behaviour of other
individuals for purchase of an item. In context of Debenhams leaders utilise referent
power to motivate individual and teams for performing their work with sequential steps.
Influence on team and individual related with political aspect
 Conflicts among employee's- It is demonstrate to the individuals that politics generates
different complexity which generate negative results for organisation. This also define
individual are biased due to change in political aspect related with business.
 Change in workplace- The term politics brings an unbalanced environment among the
organisation due to which conflicts among employee's are raised. This also create
complexity for business to complete work as per organisation culture.
 Difference in employee's behaviour- The change among the organisation behaviour
relates with mind-set of workforce (Chatman and et. al., 2014). This refers employee's
loose its interest due to amendment in the behaviour of employee's which make
demotivation among workforce.
Influence on team and individual related with culture aspect
Handy's culture typology is generated by the organisation for contributing maximum
efforts among employee's to manage all work according to team and individual.
 Power culture- This contribute Debenhams to undertake centralised control among the
business. Further, Debenhams is performing their work at a broader level so it is essential
to control all work of organisation.
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