Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Organizational Behavior

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................2
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyse how culture, politics and power can influence individual and team behaviour and
performance ...........................................................................................................................3
M1 Critically examine how power, culture and politics of a business entity influence
performance and behaviour of team and individual...............................................................6
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
P2 Assess how process & content theory attain goals and objectives of an organisation......6
M2 Critically measure application of these theories influence others behaviour..................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Discuss what makes a team effective and ineffective.......................................................8
M3 Examine effective theories of team development..........................................................10
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................10
P4 Apply various philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour in context of
organisation..........................................................................................................................10
M4 Investigate and measure how concepts & philosophies influence behaviour in positive as
well as negative manner.......................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is defined as application & study of behaviour of individual,
teams and groups at workplace. There are number of activities involved in OB such as
understanding, controlling and predicting an individual's behaviour. This is a filed which
provides analysis of individuals, groups and structure on behaviour of the organisation. This
knowledge is applied for increasing efficiency and profitability of the company. This concept is
related to various organisational issues like employee performance, incentives, business
environment, etc(Mueller, Renken, and van Den Heuvel, 2016).
The company considered in this report is Sainsbury Plc. This is a British multinational
groceries and general merchandise retailer which has headquarters in UK. This is the second
largest supermarket chain which was started in the year 1869. This company was started as a
shop in London. In the year 1922, it was found that it became the largest retailer of groceries.
The present report will discuss about cultural, political and power effect on the organisation and
management. Also there are relevant models and theories mentioned which are used by
Sainsbury to provide positive environment at workplace.
TASK 1
P1 Analyse how culture, politics and power can influence individual and team behaviour and
performance
Organisational behaviour is defined as study that measures effect on individual's
performance because of different factors such as power, politics and culture. Organisational
culture is a term that includes values, beliefs and attitudes that are possessed by an organisation.
Each and every organisation has different way of working and functioning. There is different
strategy adopted by different companies in order to achieve organisational goals. Different
managers have their own way of motivating employees and increasing employee satisfaction.
Employees working in the company are affected by politics, power and culture that is followed at
workplace(Rashid, Gul, and Khalid, 2018). Sainsbury is a supermarket chain of UK and it offers
variety of products to customers. It has to provide positive work environment to employees so
that it is able to achieve desired goals of company. The concept of organisational culture, politics
and power are mentioned below -
Culture

This is of working of different organisations at workplace. There are both negative and
positive impact on individuals due to culture followed in that company. If there is positive
environment at workplace and all employees are treated equally, it increases employee
satisfaction and loyalty. In some organisations employees do not have freedom to express their
thoughts and views with senior managers of the company. This decreases employee involvement
in decision making of the company. It is essential for organisations to have positive environment
at workplace. In context of Sainsbury, there are different kinds of culture adopted by managers.
These are described below - Power culture – As per this culture, there are few regulations and rules followed by all
employees. Few employees or managers are given power to make decisions. Employees
are judged on the basis of what they achieve. This leads to quick decision making. This is
a strong culture for Sainsbury Plc to use for making quick decisions(Szabó, and et.al,
2018). Task Culture - This is formed when teams of the organisation are formed for addressing
specific problems or projects. Task is most important aspect thus, power within teams is
often shifted and this depends upon mixing of team members. Person culture – In such case of person culture, individuals are considered as unique and
superior to the company. Organisations exist for making people work. This is simply
collection of individuals who will be working for same organisation.
 Role culture - This culture is based on few rules. These are highly controlled and every
individual knows what are their roles and responsibilities. These type of organisations are
generally bureaucratic.
It is important that Sainsbury must provide positive culture to employees for increasing
their efficiency and performance. When employees are given rewards and appreciation for
whatever good they are doing for company, this creates positivity in mind of others to more hard
work in attaining organisational goals(Skinner, and Stewart, 2017).
Politics
This is known as nuisance activity which is generally done by non performing employees
of the organisation. Their motive is to gain attention and distract hard working employees. There
is case of internal politics in almost all organisation. Politics of organisation is categorised into
four type i.e. weeds, rocks, high grounds and woods. Weeds include personal influence and