Impact of Organisational Culture, Politics, and Power on Behaviour and Performance

Organisational behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analysing the impact of an organisation’s culture, politics and power on individual and
team behaviour and performances..............................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluation of various theories and techniques of motivation with respect to achievement of
organisational goals and objectives. ...........................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Explain what makes a team effective as well as ineffective..................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Determine different concepts and philosophies of organisation behaviour in reference of
business organisation..................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is referred as the study to determine the way an individual or a person
behave with others in an organisational setting. it is very necessary for the leader and manager to
ensure that all the employees behave well with others at workplace so that productivity can be
improved. This report is based on Tesco which is a British grocery retailer of United kingdom
and offers variety of products and services to customers. This report covers description about the
way the culture, politics and power impacts of behaviour and performance of team and
individuals. it also includes content and process motivation theoriesalong with discussion of
effective and ineffective team. Tuckman team development model is applied in order to develop
effective team within organisation. At last, path goal theory is applied on a specific situation in
reference to business organisation.
TASK 1
P1 Analysing the impact of an organisation’s culture, politics and power on individual and team
behaviour and performances
Organisational culture:
Organisational culture refers to a model of shared beliefs, assumptions and values which
act as a governing body of how people behave in an organisation. Culture within an organisation
has huge impact on the performance of its employees and how they behave. There is not a
perfect or defined model of organisational culture which can be implemented in every
organisation since every organisation differ in terms of its operations, size, objectives, resources
etcetera (Bakotić, 2016). Organisational culture plays a crucial role in success of an
organisation. Many models have been proposed that try to explain the organisational culture, one
of them is Charles Handy’s model under which he has defined four types of culture that may
exist within an organisation. Here are the four types of cultures which any organisation may
practice:
Power culture:
In many organisations, the power or the authority remains only in the hands of a few
people. Only these people are responsible for the decision-making and also enjoy some special
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