Organizational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power

Organizational behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1 Organization's culture, politics and power influences individual and team behaviour and
performance.................................................................................................................................3
P2 Effective achievement of goals through content and process theories of motivation and
motivation techniques..................................................................................................................6
P3 Components that make an effective team different from an ineffective team: ......................8
P4 Philosophies and concepts of organizational behaviour applied within organization in a
given business situation.............................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour deals with the study of human behaviour at the workplace. It is
a systematic application of knowledge about how an individual or group behaves in
organizational settings. It is the area of study that examines the performance of human resource
in a work environment. Morrison's is one of the leading supermarket and its headquarters is in
Bradford, UK. It was founded in 1899 by William Morrison's. They deal with food, drinks,
clothing, books, magazines etc. As per the survey of 2019 they employee 110,000 employees
each week and serve to 11 million customers too. In the further report it is to be analysed the
influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others in the organization, evaluating
motivational theories to enable achievement of organizational goals, the factors which make an
effective team and applying concepts and philosophies of organizational context and given
business situation .
P1 Organization's culture, politics and power influences individual and team behaviour and
performance
Organizational culture and its influence: Organizational culture is the sum of the
beliefs, values, practices, ideologies and philosophies of an organization. It is a collective trait of
an organization that defines what it is. It basically defines what an organization is, what they
stand for and what they do. Handy's culture model has the following kinds of culture:
 Power culture: The power concentrates with few individuals who have influence in the
organization. Individuals are assessed based on their achievement only and not based on
the quality of work this demoralizes them and increases turnover at individual level.
Morrison's from years is following this culture only. The power remains with the
Morrison's family and after 50 years Ken Morrison's has stepped down, and they have no
Morrison's family member in board or executive level. Employees get motivated by the
power but at the same time can get demotivate by the pressures. For team level there is a
problem of coordination with other departments and also with the upper management as
well. If managed the power properly it also leads to team building and satisfied
individuals (Elsmore, 2017).
 Role culture: The power in this culture is determined by the role or position in the
organizational structure. People are controlled by the roles and responsibility. Morrison's
is also shifting to this culture as it has a hierarchical bureaucracy and with the highly

defines structure people have clearly delegated authority this reduces the chances of
conflicts at both the individual and team level. But is more effective in case of individual
(Wong, 2020).
 Task culture: It is formed when the organization has to perform specific task or a
project. Morrison's is also adopting this culture as there are various tasks which have to
be performed in the Morrison's supermarket therefore in this culture, power will shift
depending on team members, their skills and personalities. This culture is advantageous
for teams as it promotes team work and make workplace more interesting as bonds are
formed and problem solving is done together. But the drawback is individual
achievements and contribution go unnoticed therefore it is more effective in case of team.
 Person culture: In which people of the organization believes them to be superior to the
organization. Morrison's is not in favour of adopting this culture as organization with this
type of culture is just a collection of individual who just work for the same organization
and the power lies in every group of individual. For individuals this culture seems to be
best as it provides them security and a way to work without pressure. This culture is
generally not found in businesses.
So, Morrison's from many years was following the power culture but has now shifted to
role and task culture. It has also adopted learning work culture as it has long term business
sustainability and work performance. Learning culture is a set of organizational practices, values
etc. that stimulates organization or individuals to enhance their ability, knowledge and
performance (Anitha, 2016).
Organizational politics and its influence: It is the use of powers in informal way to
affect the decision-making in an organization or on behaviour that are non-sanctioned. Managers
at higher level of Morrison's use power to influence the behaviour of others. There are no good
or bad politics it is just the way people use it. Morrison's uses the politics in a good way by
building connection with powerful people of the organization, Bad politics are designed to
achieve personal gain at the expense of others also of the organization (Jain. and Ansari, 2018).
Morrison's defines bad politics as spreading rumours, talking behind someone's back etc. All this
causes some bad effects like decrease in Productivity: individual and team as it lowers the
output. Decrease in the overall productivity – politics lowers the individual output and individual
who play politics. High performance pressure increase stress and anxiety- individual and team