Determining the Influence of Politics, Culture, and Power on Team Behavior and Performance

Unit 12: Organisational
Behaviour

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P 1. Determining how politics, culture and power tends to influence team behaviour,
individual and performance. .......................................................................................................1
Power culture...................................................................................................................................3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P 2. Evaluating various theories of motivation and techniques of motivation which helps in
attaining goals.............................................................................................................................4
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................5
P 3. Evaluating what makes effective team opposed to ineffective team...................................5
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................5
P 4. Analysing the philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour...............................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is considered to be as an effective strategy as it helps in
effectively evaluating the human behaviour in the working environment. This helps in providing
better understanding of why people behave in such a way in the organization (Osland, Devine
and Turner, 2015). This is very useful in determining complex nature of the human being in the
organization. This study will focus on determining how politics, culture and power tends to
influence team behaviour, individual and performance. This study also highlights on evaluating
various theories of motivation which helps in attaining goals. Furthermore, this study also helps
in developing better understanding on how to effectively cooperate with other individuals in the
group. Lastly, this report also helps in analysing the philosophies and concepts of organisational
behaviour.
Tesco is a multinational British grocery and retailer which was founded by Jack Cohen in
the year 1919. This company is headquartered in Tesco House, Hertfordshire, England. This
company deals in clothes, internet services, grocery, furniture, toys, software, telecom, petrol,
electronics, financial services, etc.
LO 1
P 1. Determining how politics, culture and power tends to influence team behaviour, individual
and performance.
Organizational behaviour helps in providing better understanding of why people behave
in such a way in the organization. It helps in critically examining the complex behaviour of the
individual within the organization.
Organisation's culture
Organisational culture is considered to be a system of shared values, beliefs and
assumptions which intends to govern the behaviour of individual within the organization. Tesco
tends to develop an organizational culture by effectively taking into consideration various factors
associated with the preference and value, demand of the industry, goals and assumptions
(Newton and LePine, 2018). Organisational culture helps in delivering the best level of services
and it also helps employees to come on a common platform in order to achieve set goals and
objectives of the Tesco company. Organisational culture is very crucial as it helps in shaping the
understanding, behaviour and perception of the employee. It helps in determining the
environment within which employees work. This in turn helps in improving team behaviour,
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individual and performance. Tesco company tends to focus on creating a positive work
environment with top-notch facilities and it also focuses on supporting healthy avenues of
communication. A positive work culture helps in encouraging effective work life balance for
employees of Tesco plc. It is also useful in effectively building healthy and positive interpersonal
relationship. A positive work culture helps employees of the Tesco company to be more engaged
towards work which in turn leads to higher performance and productivity of the business
(Company Culture, 2019). Tesco company tends to focus on creating a diverse company culture
where all kind of people come together in order to thrive in an affirming and rewarding
environment. Another effective culture of the Tesco company is to promote growth and
challenges within the organization (Musringudin, Akbar and Karnati, 2017). Tesco company
tends to focus on nurturing professional and personal development of the employees by
effectively promoting training and development and offering challenging task (Company
Culture, 2019). This in turn helps in improving team behaviour, individual and performance.
Organisation's politics
This is considered to be as the use of power within the Tesco company in order to
achieve certain changes that are beneficial for the organization. Positive organizational politics
helps in improving the individual performance and team behaviour. On the contrary, negative
politics in the organization tends to lower the individual capability to perform particular task.
This in turn results in delay in meeting the goals and objectives of the Tesco company. Politics
ion the organization tends to affect the environment of the company which in turn affects the
team behaviour and also in turn affects the interrelationship between the parties. Politics also
tend to change the attitude of the employees or individual in the organisation. Politics at
workplace results in demotivating employees which in turn leads to increased level of stress and
engagement to misleading information. This in turn helps in improving team behaviour,
individual and performance.
Organisation's power
Organisational power is the ability to make things happen in accordance with the
prescribed guidelines (Gelfand and et.al., 2017). It helps employees to perform certain task
within prescribed guidelines. Power is considered to be one of the crucial factors as it helps in
accomplishing the goals and objectives in a systematic and efficient manner. Power within the
organization is important as it gives power to the individual to assign roles and responsibilities to
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