Role of Organizational Culture, Politics, and Power in Individual and Team Behavior

This document analyzes the role of organizational culture, politics, and power in influencing individual and team behavior and performance. It discusses the impact of culture on employee behavior, the use of organizational politics to maintain work culture, and the different types of organizational power. It also evaluates the motivation of individuals and teams to achieve organizational goals.

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Analyse the role of organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and
team behaviour and performance...........................................................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P2. Evaluate the motivate to the individuals and teams to achieve the goals though with
organization perspective.........................................................................................................4
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................7
P3. Demonstrate of the study of effective team can stimulus to the other performance........7
LO4................................................................................................................................................10
P4. By implements the concepts and applications of organizational behavior in a having
situational business criteria...................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
An organisational behaviour is a procedure of systematic managerial study of human
perspective behaviour and attitude with the context of organisation. It compiled the human
attribution linked with the organisation structure that how an individual can behave or contribute
the skills towards the task accomplishment (Schueffel and Vadana, 2016). The study of human
behaviour is determined on attitude and perspective about the individual in terms of situation
arises the steps taken by the individual would give a favourable outcomes or not, as well as it
also mapped the performances through the pursuing of the activity or approaches by an
individual in the organisation evaluate by an manager or expertise in organisation behaviour.
Introduction of company structure
Through the basis of retailer industry the company is obtaining the competition in the
market with other company in retail firms is ASDA plc company which is also comprising to
deal the groceries and basic home décor products sustain to procure the consumers, as it is based
on United Kingdom. The study of Organisation behaviour in Asda company to scrutinize the
employees attributes and their behaviour are suitable towards the organisation aspects or not. The
purpose of conducting is to making assurance the successful work is pursuing healthy and
peacefully manner (Arya and Evert eds., 2017).
LO 1
P1. Analyse the role of organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and
team behaviour and performance.
The specific role of organisation in culture, power and politics in behalf of organisation
behaviour where it customized the characteristics of organisation in the perspective of politics,
culture and power with the context of Asda company. Somehow, it implies through the context
of company for improvising and impact these factor in employee performance and behaviour.
Organisation Culture
This aspect is represent the major core values, behaviour, attitude and other attributes
which are linked in human nature in the relation with organisation premises to evaluate the
performances as per the competencies (Agras and Ates, 2015). Through the people’s reaction on
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the situation arises as the way they represent themselves in terms of knowledge and certain
behavior.
Hofstede Cultural Dimension: The dimension is represented the study about the survey
in primary factor of the workforce values, where it elaborated about their behavior analysation in
factor which are driven organization perspective basis are given below: Power Distance Index: In this stage of dimension it comprises about the exceed level of
the less influencing to others where the power is not distributed equal way, the
description of lower power is delivered the discrimination and biaseness while higher
order of index is indicates the equality of driven power in the society. Uncertainty avoidance: In this event the people are experienced the embrace of the some
event in something which they are not determined where organization usually follows the
consideration of high influencing index behavior and guidelines with views and lower
degree influencing index shared their ideas and visions.
 Individualism vs Collectivism: The group of people are gathered together in the
organization as working to leads their group mates where people are representing the own
perception as in his/her factor, and the collectivism refers about the gathered people are
interrelated with the extended to other traits of group where in these featured of group
have loyalty in unlimited way and they all supported each other within other specification
of group. Masculinity and femininity: By understanding of the dimension is covers the meaning
of the Masculinity is propounded about the goal oriented, high positive influence,
achievement oriented to derives as to known of success. In other aspect of the femininity
factor is derives about the women respect traits and they both helps to reduces the gender
gap in the organization.
 Long term orientation vs short term dimension: According to this dimension it regulates
about the connection within the long terms in high index featured to offers the optimum
solution of the issues and challenges as necessity in the presence of organization. Short
term oriented are reflect the lower degree of the poor economic development which
would not integrated in positive way.
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Above Hofstede dimension culture are discussed about the effective different sources of
featured about culture related in organization perspective where it supported to reduces the unfair
elements that creating the barriers and conflicts within the working objectives as it circulate the
effective positive environment, Asda Company also implies the cultural dimension where they
accumulated with their employees traits and behavior rectify and provided them a healthy
working environment.
Handy’s Model is a prescribed model which describes about the management tools
which is assorting to analyze the organizational culture aspects in terms of individual and team
performance. On the basis of this report of organizational behavior the Handy model is
considered for mapping the scenario of Asda plc company internal structure.
The organizational culture consisting a Handy’s Model that recommends the features and traits
of regarding power, role, task of the employee in organization perspective are explained below:
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Illustratio
n 1: Dimension of Culture, 2020
Source: Dimension of Culture, 2020

 Power culture: In organization the role of power culture having the impact on a major
individual whose the influence spreads towards the organization premises.
 Role culture: In this having a role culture based on the role of the individuals as well as
group which is highly potential and controlled through the roles and responsibities.
 Task culture: This is form with the only motive of to attain the specific addresses the
objective which having provides the organizational task (Dasgupta, Das and Das,
2015).
 Person Culture: The personality culture is certainty of particular person’s culture
which confined the influence in the organization premises through effective workforce,
skills and performances.
As for the Asda retail company they having the power culture where it would generates
the optimum work productivity with positive working environment on that the employees
work and deliverables in the better outcomes and also it leads to guidance about the right
strategy implementation of responsibilities and duties.
Organizational Politics:
The factor of description about organizational politics derives the procedure of human
behavior in the context of high power and authority which can controlled as well as managed in
the systematic manner the work environment of organizational premises, where now the
organizational politics is a technique which it helps to balanced the work and employees
behavior with the work culture.
It is the are four quadrants Metaphors organizational politics which influence the power
as well as maintain the organization activities within the premises, So there are following major
highlight point of organizational politics are given:
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 The Rocks: This is emphasis the power where it implies on an individual employee
through one to one interaction in a formal way in context of providing the title, Job role,
expertise etc.
 The High Grounds: By enhanced about the formally activation of higher authority
implementation within the organization in context of making policies, rules and
regulation with proper guidelines.
 The Woods: By applies the formal procedure and guidelines which can affect the
organization compliances related to norms and policies towards the development of the
safety measures within the work culture (Kuttig and et. al., 2015).
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Source: Four Metaphor Quadrant, 2020

 The Weeds: According to this quadrant it derives the informally activities which are
uncontrolled and flexible by which the organization.
Basic Strength Weakness
Organisational Politics  As the organisational
politics are driven to
the construct the
structured where
similar skills and
knowledge of the
grouped people
together by implies the
compliances employees
performances and other
professionalism
activities get specify or
visualise effective
coordination and
individual employee
performances are
highly effective in
nature.
 It regulates the implies
the disciplinary
working traits in the
premises.
 The influencer of
organisation premises
are not regulatory basis
as sometime planning
of politics moderate
possibility of succeed.
 Individual personality
could reach to meet the
organisation politics
objectives it requires
intelligence ability.
 Majority of unskilled
people could not
prevails effective
politics in the company
premises.
Through having discussion on the organizational politics with the context of Asda company there
would be considered the factor from Metaphors quadrant as The Woods aspect where it
facilitates the good amount of compliance about work and systematic approach to accomplish the
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objectives where the workforce can work according to that rules which bring the discipline in the
company premises.
Organizational Power:
The conceptual theory of organizational power is having the abilities to create the
influencing environment which can affect the behavior and attitude towards the stakeholder
through which it can controlled all activities and undertake authority of all compliance decision
within the organization.
Below there is a type of power elaborated which influenced the organization decision
making effective:
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Illustration 3.: Types of Organisational Power,2020
Source: Types of Organisational Power,2020

 Expert Power: It is emphasis about the proper and effective knowledge on any factor
subject that having with experts where they can assorted to implement the improvisation
in the workforce performances as well in the organization culture activity.
 Reward power: To making the elaboration from the ability of a person by which it
influence the allocation of appraising the incentives within the organization, these
incentives are related with the bonus, increment in the salary, promotional activities and
gaining the positive performance appraisal.
 Legitimate Power: This power is basically hold the position power where a particular
person holds in the context of delivering the suitable job roles and responsibilities within
the organization premises as it have only can puts the inputs by top level of management
who have decision power to enhanced it.
Through the scrutinizing the above power factor in the organization aspect the better and suitable
power can be considered for Asda Company as Legitimate Power which can influence to making
the effective decision as in correct form of way through which organization can work as on the
way of compliances format and top authority will bring dynamic factor as to generate the
reshaping of the organization.
LO 2.
P2. Evaluate the motivate to the individuals and teams to achieve the goals though with
organization perspective.
Motivation: this is the part of management theory as it helps to scrutinize the lacking
part of individual or group weakness where it supports to make stimulus for improvising the
morale values and inner confidence for making them stable where they can achieve or
accomplish the desirable goals of personal as well as organizational aspect. The explaination
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theory of motivation is constructed by McGregor where it described about the role of motivation
in managerial aspects such as in leadership, coordination etc. Motivation has compiled the
important two theories which explains about the function and key role in the management
aspects and business aspects are as Content and Process Theory.
Content theory: The nature of this theory is reflecting of those specific factor of people
who are constantly focuses their objectives or goal for just making it accomplish for gain the
sense of satisfaction in anyways (Kumar, 2015). With the perspective of organization like Asda
company determines the employees goals as well as organizational goal to make fulfill through
right form of approach. As the content theory basically generates the importance about motivates
objectives or they help to provide the guidance to find out the right needs which can related
towards the objective and for that motivation helps to reach to meet up the individual’s
expectation.
It drafts the Maslow’s hierarchy Theory that compiles about the specifics needs which is
considered towards the basic essential factors which can fulfill the needs in right approach
manner
Maslow Hierarchy theory: This theory is defines about the best approaches of attaining
all the needs which are aspect into individuals and group motive which includes the observation
and curiosity of human’s specific needs (Burke, Genn-Bash and Haines, 2018).
 Phycological Need: The factor of the major basic needs of human which is necessary
presence of human life to survival, It enhanced the needs like food, shelter, water, clothes
etc.
 Safety needs: As on the major essential productivity of security measures where every
human being want in his or her life weather it related to personal or professional life
such as insurance, health measures, allowances or other benefits which derives the long
term satisfaction.
 Love and Belongings: This theory is also known as social belonging where after the
basic and safety needs the particular person having a desire to attaining love from
family, friends or at workplace.
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 Self Esteem: This is comprises about the self ego which satisfied the presence of
leadership or sense of accomplishment, the self esteem generates the image and value
of an individual person.
 Self Actualization: By having the satisfaction with own identity after it derives about
the achievement of the satisfactory position with realization of one’s full potential,
individual person having the unwanted desire which can not fulfilled until unless that
person not achieve his or her desirable goals where as it generates the temptation of
achieving more aims in the life.
On the behalf of Motivation Content theory elaborates the Maslow’s Hierarchy need for the
context of Asda plc Company where the all factor of need is comprised in employees
values and dignity to accomplish and having the sort of satisfaction regarding with that as
Psychological needs help to allocating the basic needs which requires at workplace proper
hospitality, optimum resources and positive environment. Safety needs helps to provide the
assurance of employee at workplace in terms of Provident fund and ESIC benefits,
insurance and allowances. Social Needs are emphasis about the loving and coordination of
better environment within the workplace which can make flexible the work culture. Self
Esteem will provides the appraisal, rewards and other factor which gives sense of
accomplishment, similarly Self Actualization generates the sense of achievements in the
next level where still employee gets energetic to accomplish more aspects of needs.
Process Theory:
Through explanation about this idea where it represent the influence power which can
change as well as improvised the entity where it only considered as theories in those on how the
work is happen, what strategies applies towards completion of task with not negative flaws.
The process theory approach contains the Theory of X and Y as it elaborates the
perspective of Asda Company employees as well as their organization Attributes involves in it
where it consists about the effective motivation role influence in the workplace and demotivation
influence at workplace which is given below:
 Theory X: The theory which describes about the different traits of work that driven the
supervision, external rewards with the fines and heavy penalties where it focuses on the
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lacking of work responsibilities and it implies towards the individuals goal oriented not
for group oriented such it highlight the less effective workforce at work place (Hasalama,
2015).
 Theory Y: This theory emphasis about the hard worker employees and managers those
who are internally motivated as they satisfied with their job role and responsibility by
which these workforce are most valuable assets and effective productivity towards the
organization desirable goals as well as they are one of those who doesn’t need the
supervision they efforts generates the profitable towards the company.
With obvious scrutinize between Theory X and Y the Asda Company their selection would
be Theory Y because that influence to make motivate, guidelines in a right approach to
framed the particular work in the systematic manner where the employees are effective and
provides the productivity towards the organization (Çelik and et. al., 2020). Through the
optimum effective supervision or leadership by allotting training should be there in the
organization which generates the effective workforce where they going to provide the
valuable productivity.
LO 3.
P3. Demonstrate of the study of effective team can stimulus to the other performance.
The description about team is the group of people having a variety of skills and
competence to accomplish the goals of the organization with the certain objectives. It
differentiate the attributes that has been carried for wards by teammates to making the task
successful and reduces the flaws that creates the negative outcomes and improvised the better
form of coordination (Paul, 2018).
By co operative with others in organization perspective as Asda Company where it reflects
through team members or individuals by contributing the effective sets of attributes from each
member who are includes in the group or team. A team is comprising the meaning cooperative
segment in the format of effective team as
Effective Team: An effective team having a competence to achieving goal or objective
with the right approach of strategic tools and techniques, it derives the task responsibilities is
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undertaken by the each member of team as well as it improvisation into better coordination
skills.
The importance and role of effective team can enhance the cooperative in effective at the time of
delivering the task to others. There is some key description about the effective Team which can
helps to deliverables the assignment of Asda company employees effectively and efficiently as
follows:
 By formation of optimum leadership which emphasis about the different leaders of
people implement of new strategic to building motivation.
 The factor of effective team can encourage through motivation aspects of the view points
of team mates by further they final discussion among team member and comes to final
conclusion.
 By assessing own strategic process which leads towards the goals and allows to put some
implementation of performance which can improve the work quality.
 Enhancing the appraising to the team mates efforts by attaining sort of achievement in
aspect of common goal (Kirubakaran and Dongre, 2019).
 Although it is very important to enhance the effective team for betterment the further
aspects to bring the favorable outcomes while making assure about there should be not
having the presence.
By enhancing the important factor of Belbin and Tuckman team roles reflects the qualities
of leadership traits and behavior in which it facilitates about the employee and work
assignment features, where the positive environment can make the employee work
completion successfully and generates the superior satisfaction as well as the expectation.
Belbin team roles
The concept of this team role theory is to making the identification of the gaps or the
positive and negative factor of an individual employees that is improvised through the leader
who controlled and managed the performance of that particular workforce (Kriegseinsatz and
Vorderen Orient, 2019). The traits on which the negative flaws get influenced it also allows to
correct and provides the creativity presence of mind to recreate .
As the Belbin team role is scrutinize and assorted by the Asda company to rectify their
employees performances in better way. Some of the factor which follows in Belbin team role are
a s follows:
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Having Action taking roles Sharper: It reflects about the specific employees competencies test that how can
individual use their presence of mind to deliver or accomplish the situational task through
the logical thinking. Implementor: As in organisation some of delegate and work oriented employees tend to
complete the work with perfect format of finishing or to making correct in the right way
of approach by putting inputs of some strategic methods for justification. Resource Investigator: On the part of effective leader and manager who are keen to
looking for the lacking resources which is needful for the organization and employees
during at presenting the task completion or to fulfilling the resource by which the work
can be done through some guidelines or few equipment.
Tuckman team roles
The conceptual study of Tuckman team roles is to getting the formation, managing,
controlling with the stimulus supporting of power ability for evaluating the team performance
and their outcomes behalf of assigning the project as per the facilitating the job requirement .
The Asda company having a Tuckman team role in their group of workforce which enhanced
their performances and making them effective for the other perspective task with tehmotive of
deliverables the favourable outcomes. The features of Tuckman’s team roles support and
influence to get team performance effective way: Norming: By assorting with norming approach it facilitates the supporting helps or the
making the better coordination among with team members by asking for supports in
completion for project (Alves, Segatto and De-Carli, 2019). Through that the feedback
generates that mentioned the flaws and lacking performance wants to immediate
improvisation for an effective team formation before allotting the different situational
based. Storming: It focuses to manage and controlled the barriers and conflicts arises in during
the process of pursuing work or any kind o project that need full to develop the errors
resolve and better relationship with peers with superior.
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 Performing: This concept is indicate about the right format of employee performing who
has been driven a quite good skills and generates the satisfactory outcomes and always
get accomplish the goals in the better performing way.
From above discussion of cooperative work with others with the context of Asda company
through effective team where it helps to making the better coordination among the team
members as in Asda Plc the employees are dealing with customer where individual could not
able to handle bunch of client so Belbin and Tuckman team roles provides the better
understanding about how different formation of team roles can make effective work accomplish
in different situational based (Molla and et. al., 2019). As it emphasis about the team credential
requirement and basic improvement can make a team effective and efficient enough to bring
successful outcomes as it allows to highlight the points of having good finisher, sharp presence
of mind with implies the innovation and strategic approach applied, and allocate the resources
which is essential requirement towards their task successfully executed.
LO4
P4. By implements the concepts and applications of organizational behavior in a having
situational business criteria.
On the basis of organisation behaviour approaches it is described the fundamental aspects
of managerial activities in which different source of concepts and application elaborates along
with company perspective where they acquired and accomplish the task in management method
such as leadership, team work activity and many more. In this criteria of organisational
behaviour the Path goal theory is obtained by the context of Asda company where it will
represent the significance attributes of leadership style to making employees performance
stimulus in positive factor.
The Path Goal Theory is framed and construct by Martin G Evans which propounded
the leadership style and behaviour that comprise the making the promotes to those employees
who are perfect and provide the valuable aspect of outcomes as well as to accomplish the
objectives of organisation. It have formatted the four style of path goal theory which construct
the strategic work implementation and making employee better performances.
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 The Supportive Leader Nature : It reflect the sort of individual behavior represent the
satisfaction towards through employees through needs and preferences, where the care or
concerned shows towards the employee performances. The right Directive path: The attitude which specify the leader’s expectation for its
employees as they will provide expectance performances and elaborate them about to
how approach the task as per the contributing the skills and knowledge and also making
enhance about the behavior of individual employee (Arya and Evert, 2017). The Accomplish nature of Leader: Some of the attributes of leader and manager are
goal achieve oriented attitude and behavior as they only focus to get the successful in task
objective as in any procedure manner through deliver high efficiency of performances by
workforce to having a motive for attaining the expectation of leaders. On the basis of
analyzation of leader that employees are need to get motivate for the soft attributes in
professionalism such as behavior, personality, communication etc.
 The ability of Participation as in form of Leader Behavior: It involves the consulting
program about to get the suggestion from employees or views with related to task and
implies the effective decision making.
Through detailed analyzation of Path goal theory with the perspective of organization behavior
aspect in context of Asda plc company it elaborates about the leader style and having the
prominent attributes which makes it effective form of leadership which stimulus to its employees
for accomplish the task oriented as well as facilitating the enhancement of basic managerial skills
that provides the learning part of professionalism and guidance of optimum direction of the
organizational path ways or which to motivate them as well and they can enhance competencies
towards the work and achieve the goals of the company anticipation (Molla and et. al., 2019).
CONCLUSION
By having proper discussion on theory of organizational behavior with the context of
organization as it come to conclusion that implies many forms of influence about the
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organization culture, politics and power which contributing the basic impact of their workforce
productivity as well as in the team oriented process with allows the positivity and negativity
factor, as the other managerial aspect of organization behavior is motivation influence where it
comprises some sort of understanding that the content and process theory which elaborated about
the employee behaviour and basic needs which can be emphasis the manager or leader to
concerned about that and making the working environment satisfaction on which they can brings
the outcomes. As on final part of framework organisation behaviour enhancement of company is
to invites the formation of team work through different major concept of Belbin and Tuckman
team roles to emphasise the better formation and attributes about the formation of effective team
and apart from it elaborates the applications about the organisational successful outcomes
achieved by workforce.
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