Unit 12: Organisational Behaviour

Organizational
Behaviour

Contents
Organizational Behaviour............................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1Impact of key organizational aspects upon individual and team conduct............................................3
M1 Critically analyze how power, culture and politics influence individual or team behaviour..............6
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................7
P2 Evaluate how process and content theories of motivation enable attainment of goals within
organizational context..............................................................................................................................7
M2 Critically evaluate how these theories influence behaviour of team and individual..........................9
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................9
P3 Effective and ineffective teams..........................................................................................................9
M3 Analyze relevant group and team development theories to support the development of dynamic co-
operation................................................................................................................................................11
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................12
P4 Concepts and philosophies of OB within firm and any situation of business...................................12
M4 Evaluation and justification how these theories influence behaviour of team in both negative or
positive ways.........................................................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour can be identified as the prediction, understanding or
management of human behaviour both in a group or individual that happens within the firm.
While working within the firm, it is essential to understand others behaviour in order to make
others understand as well. With the help of this people can maintain healthy working
environment within the workplace. On the other hand, firm is required to adopt positive
environment so that they can understand themselves along with able to achieve their targeted
goals and objectives in an effective manner. Thus, concept of OB can be easily understood. This
report is based on Marks and Spencer which was formed in 1884 by Michal market and Thomas
Spencer which is headquartered in UK (Stewart, Courtright and Manz, 2019). This firm
specializes in selling high quality of home products, clothing as well as fast food products or
many other services. Additionally, there are so many culture, power and politics that influence
behaviour of individual or team, after this understanding of how they can cope up with each
other’s. At last, so many philosophies and theories along motivation of team or individual
concepts will get covered in this assignment.
TASK 1
P1Impact of key organizational aspects upon individual and team conduct
Organisational behaviour is defined as a process that aims towards comprehensibility of
individual behavioural characteristics with an aim to design strategies and measures in order to
motivate their behaviour in a well defined manner. In this, HR of entity play essential role to
develop positive relationship among employees and employers (Lee and et.al., 2019). Along with
this culture, power and politics are some of the essential elements that have impact of on the
performance of team as well as individual. Mention below all these elements are defined in
context with Marks and Spencer:
Culture
It acts as formative combination of ideology, believes and value that prevails within an
organisational workplace structure. In relation with Marks and Spencer, HR manager have
responsibility to ensure that there is cooperative culture prevailing in workplace. As it they
perform their task in collaborative way them performance of team and individuals can be

maximised in a well defined manner. As with the help of positive culture teams and individual
both can motivated towards hard work and can accomplish organisational goals effectively. In
addition to this, it is also increase make significant increase in entity profitability. It mainly gets
affected by culture, power and politics that prevail in entity working structure. Concept of culture
is defined in context with Marks and Spencer:
Role culture:
In this manager possess responsibility to allot responsibilities as well as roles to
individual and team in an organisation as per their interests, skill, expertise and knowledge. By
adopting role culture in Marks and Spencer overall productivity of employees can be maximized.
As if they conduct any task in accordance with their expertise and interest then work efficiency
can automatically increased. It benefit organisation to increase quality of their task. Along with
this it increases team and individual efficiency to attain objectives of organisation in a well-
defined manner.
Task culture:
In this form of culture, team has been developed with a workplace as to resolve a conflict
that sustain in entity. By applying task culture Marks and Spencer, can ensure support from all
workers and can encourage their behaviour in a positive direction. It further increases motivation
among team and individual that increases their overall productivity in best effective way
(Lyskova, 2019).
Person culture:
In this an individual consider themselves superior against entity, as in this they give more
importance to them self comparatively to organisational objectives. Implementation of person
culture in Marks and Spencer however can increase employees output on an individual level but
it affect profitability of company. This culture can decrease overall productivity of entity in a
significant manner.
Power culture:
In this form of culture power to undertake decisions are mainly lies within few executive
of top and middle level management of entity. With the execution of this culture in an
organisation, can increase efficiency of their decision-making but can disrupt creativity among
employees and team. Along with this it decreases motivation within employees and can affect
their productivity level.