Influence of Organizational Culture, Power, and Politics on Individual and Team Performance in Apple

Organizational Behaviour
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
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INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is based on the academic study that help for identifying people act
within groups. It is considered as a principle that applied in attempts to make enterprise operate
effectively and efficiently. The organizational behaviour may include different areas of research
and dedicated to improve performance, satisfaction and encouraging the leadership. The report
will discuss about Apple company which is based on the multinational technology company that
develop, design electronics items and computer software. It was founded by Steve Jobs in 1976.
The report will discuss about that how organizational culture, power and politics influence
individuals and team behaviour or performance of employee. It will demonstrate the content and
process theories of motivation in which enables an effective achievement of organizational goals.
Furthermore, it will describe about the role of effective team and how it directly opposed to
ineffective team within organization. However, it will evaluate the different concepts and
philosophies of organizational behaviour within business context and improve overall situation
or condition of enterprises.
TASK 1
Discuss about how organization’s culture, power and politics influence individual and team
performance within “Apple”
Organization culture is based on theorized as a collection of principles and belief within
organization that aid to form nature, behaviour of staff members. In another way, it can be
defined as an initiative that categorises the contribution as well as efforts of structural members.
It is useful for understanding about the business goals and objective where employees achieve
effectively. Sometimes, it has summarised the shared process of mind that segregates members
of groups from others. It means that employee coordinating and influencing towards Apple
objectives (Barry and Wilkinson, 2016). Therefore, it easily recognised the link between culture
and performance of business. Nowadays, it is rapidly increasing the digital technology and
globalization that always influence the organizational culture for improving overall business
performance and efficiency. In apple, employee can use various type of advanced technology for
reshaping its working environment or culture.
As per Handy’s model of organizational culture, it is a leading the business culture that can
be defined into different forms.
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Classification of culture
 Power: In context of power culture, Power always influence the individuals those who
are improving business capabilities and abilities. In Apple, Staff members are judged by
what they become achieve rather than how they can do things. The power culture
influences the decision-making in business development even those decisions are useful
for long-term benefits. In apple, it has found that there are facing many issues because of
limited power of individual within organization. in this way, employee will not take
important decision related organizational policies.
 Role: The role culture is based on working of organization that driver force and enables
to run smoothly. in the Apple company, it can be divided equal responsibilities of
employees so that they are performed task. It is highly managed and controlled with staff
members. Through power culture, it has facilitated the open communication of individual
in the business organization. It will be used for decision making and often to handle
overall business operations (King and Lawley, 2016).
 Task: It is associated in the form of teams within apple that are formed to address issues,
problem and progress in current project. It is an essential thing where power within team
often shift depending on the status of project. In Apple, task culture provides an
effectiveness that will largely identified by dynamic team and increase the production of
business in global marketplace.
 Person: Within apple firm, each staff members see themselves as superior and unique.
The company is simply existing in order for individuals to work because person culture is
becoming group of people who happen to be working within same Apple.
In apple, it has seen the effective culture or environment because manager always
support for employee and encourage towards business goals. In this way, it influences for
achieving the business task in proper manner.
Influence of power:
Power is based on the capacity to get other to act on the basis of positional authority. It
always influences the ability to modify that how employee develops, behave and think within
Apple company. There are different types of power exists within business such as positional
power, coercive power, Expert Power and so on.
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