Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behavior

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................3
LO1.........................................................................................................................................3
P1. Culture, politics and power influence individual and team behavior......................3
M1. Culture, politics and power of an Marks & Spencer influence individual and team
performance...................................................................................................................7
LO 2........................................................................................................................................7
P2. Content and process theory of motivation that enable effective achievement of
goals...............................................................................................................................7
M2. Evaluation of influence on the behavior and application of behavioral motivational
theories...........................................................................................................................9
D1. Relationship between culture, politics and motivation...........................................9
LO 3......................................................................................................................................10
P3. Effective team opposed to an ineffective team......................................................10
M3. Group development theories to support the development of cooperation...........14
LO 4......................................................................................................................................14
P4. Concepts and philosophies of Marks & Spencer behavior....................................14
M4. Concepts and philosophies of Marks & Spencer behavior that influence the behav-
ior.................................................................................................................................16
D2. Relevance of team development theories, concepts and philosophies that influence
the behavior in the workplace......................................................................................16
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
The organization behavior can be defined as the study of an individual and group to
analyze the activity of an Marks & Spencer. The Marks & Spencer are affected by several
factors that should be analyzed. This report includes the organization different company
factors that can be political, social and cultural and it also includes the content and process
theories of motivation that enable effective achievement of goals and also the discussion
about the teams that is effective and ineffective and what makes an effective team as op-
posed to an ineffective team and the different types of theories will be explained such as
path goal theory, network and system theory, Herzberg's motivational theory and the
Vroom's Expectancy theory. In order to accomplish the aim of the study, researcher will be
taking Marks & Spencer which is an multinational retailer situated in UK. M&S is an spe-
cializes in offering the high quality services or products are home furnishing, clothing and
food products. At last, it describes the different concepts and philosophies of the Marks &
Spencer behavioral that helps in giving the success to the organization and also stabilize the
future of the company for the longer term.
LO1.
P1. Culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour.
Every Marks & Spencer in this world are having different types of business ideas
and the products and solutions to full-fill the needs with the customers and the better
feedback and the support from the customers makes the Marks & Spencer supportive and
organized and customers are the only one who contributes in the growth of an Marks &
Spencer. But there are several factors by which every company can be affected that can be
political, social, cultural, and power which impact on the Marks & Spencer in a positive
and negative way and also influence the team or an individual (Coccia., 2015). The
following factors can be affected by the following ways-
 Culture
The goal of every Marks & Spencer is to get the maximum profit and returns so that
the company can get the success and also stabilize the Marks & Spencer. The cultural
difference is no longer significant now and also the culture affects on the company by
several ways such as-
◦ The pace of business.

◦ Business protocol or the certain rules and regulations of an Marks & Spencer.
◦ Decision making process and the negotiation.
◦ Employee management
◦ Tendency of risk taking and the risk management
◦ Marketing, sales and the distribution channels
These are some factors that can be helpful in maintaining the productivity of an
Marks & Spencer and also gives the long term success but if the company is not able to
handle these cultural functions then it can create the problem in the growth of an Marks &
Spencer. The cultural difference awareness is very important in Marks & Spencer and the
cultural difference can create the problems in the coordination in between the colleagues
and this can affect the whole team and the cultural difference can be improved by proper
communication in between the people, cultural impacts and the analysis of how people
view time and deadlines, response to the management and authority and decision-making in
between the different cultural employees (Kitchin., 2017).
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory
This cultural theory is a framework for the cross cultural communication which de-
scribes the effects of culture on the society and on the values and the behavior of the peo -
ple. There are mainly six dimensions on which any Marks & Spencer that are as follows-
 Power distance
This cultural dimension analyses or express the degree in of less powerful employee
of an Marks & Spencer accept and expect the power which is distributed unequally. The is-
sue regarding every Marks & Spencer is that the improper distribution in the power always
affect the employees and also creates the distance in between the colleagues. In companies,
people with power tries to equalize the distribution and power and justification of demand
for the inequalities of power. UK, China, and Saudi Arabia are having high power distance
index.
 Individualism
This term defines the relative importance of an individual and also the groups. The higher
side of the team which is called individualism in which the employees only take care of
themselves and of their related colleagues. The society positioned itself in terms of the “I”