Organizational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power

Organizational Behaviour

TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
1.0 Influence of culture, politics on the behavior and organization culture, power influence on
the behavior and performance.....................................................................................................4
2.0 Motivation for achieving the goals and its related theories...................................................6
3.0 Effective team versus ineffective team and its cooperation..................................................8
4.0 Concepts and Philosophies of Organizational Behavior.......................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
Books and Journlas....................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organization behavior helps in understanding the people who are working in a better way
also helps in developing the positive relationship between the employers and the organization.
Through positive organization behavior employees are creating the proper working environment
around their work environment. Apart from this, the organizational behavior helps to motivate
their employees by developing the organizational performance as the individual are differs from
each other and helps the managers for applying the appropriate the motivational tools for them.
The tools and techniques helps in achieving the goals effectively. The report is divided into many
different questions as it contains the culture, politics and behavior of the other employers in the
organization by influencing the team and individual performance. Further, the analysis of how to
motivate the team and individual in achieving the goals and the related theories and techniques
are identifying. Apart from this, the understanding of how to cooperate with the others in the
organization and the ways that makes the effective teams opposed to ineffective teams in the
organization. Moreover, the concepts and philosophies are identifying in this report of the
organizational behavior and these are such that the behavior is within the context of the
organization.
MAIN BODY
1.0 Influence of culture, politics on the behavior and organization culture, power influence on the
behavior and performance
Culture – Culture is the factor that decides whether the organization's climate is good or not.
Culture of an organization is created by the employees out there, as they are the one who creates
culture by their behavior. Top-level managers play a very important role in making organization
culture good. The organization runs effectively and efficiently if its employees deliver the best
culture to the company. Employees also work in those companies whose culture attracts them. If
any organization has to do work without or with fewer conflicts then it has to make the
organization culture very happy and joyful. People are always happy with those people who
make them feel happy so it is the same in the organization also if infirm there is a happy
environment then it will be very good for the organization as well as individuals. Tesco provides

a great culture to its employees due to which they work with their best efforts. Top-level
managers of Tesco give their best efforts in creating the culture very comfortable. It is a fact that
when organizational culture is good, employees feel motivated and also do all their work in a
very good manner with nice coordination.
Handy’s culture model explain four several types of culture that are present in any
company.
Task culture: this is the culture in which higher authorities give task to people and ensure
that they utilize their skill properly to complete the work. This makes them comfortable and they
feel happy. This improves their working performance and company gets positive results.
Role culture: Each person has different role which encourage person and raise their
professional skill. This improves their behavior and performance in business.
Power culture: This is the culture in which power is in hand of the superiors and lower level
employees have to work as per the direction of seniors. This sometimes create burden and people
do not work well hence they become negative in business.
Person culture: each person works according to own norms and do not like to listen others
views,. This increases conflicts situation in business and team coordination gets affected.
Tesco has role culture where each person work according to own guidelines. This
improves individual performance and positively affect company’s performance.
Politics – Politics in an organization is that thing that directly impacts the climate of it.
Politics is always played by those who want to get things without doing hard work, as they think
that they can achieve many things by making good relations with seniors and getting them on
their side. The top-level also giving promotion and rewards to those who are in good relation
with them, then they also become part of the politics. The main thing about the politics in the
organization is that it creates a big change in the nature and attitude of all employees either who
has got a promotion by politics or the person who deserved a promotion but didn’t able to get it.
Due to politics in the company, the behavior of other employees gets affected as they do not feel
good with the person who has played politics and the one which has supported such activity. The
person who is doing hard work for getting the achievement but wasn’t able to get due to politics
will change his attitude by ignoring high authority and also by not doing work with full efforts.
On another hand, the person who has got a promotion without giving big efforts in the
organization will also change his attitude towards the organization, as he will feel that hard work