Unit 12 - Organisational Behaviour

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Determine how organizational culture, politics and power influence the individual and
team behaviour as well as performance..................................................................................1
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................5
P2) Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques.......................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P3) Role of effective team in achievement of objectives.......................................................9
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................12
P4) Concepts and philosophies of OB including leadership style........................................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is concerned with the understanding of human behaviour in
work environment and determines its impacts on job performance, structure, motivation,
leadership, communication etc. For this assignment chosen organisation is Debenhams which is
a multinational retailer of UK. It is operating under department store in UK and Ireland and also
having its franchise stores in other countries of world. The headquarter of Debenhams is in
London, England and it deals in a range of households items, clothing and furniture. In this
report discussed about the relationships of organizational culture, politics as well as powers and
its impacts on the behaviour and performance of team and individual. Also, discuss the content
and process theory of motivation as well as difference between effective and ineffective teams.
In addition it is required to study the organisational behaviour concepts and theories.
TASK 1
P1 Determine how organizational culture, politics and power influence the individual and team
behaviour as well as performance.
An organisation ascertained their growth as well as success in the marketplace through
their culture, power and politics which impacts on the performance and behaviour of team
members. Organizational culture refers to the system of shared values and attitudes which sets
that how an individual perform in a business. Within the context of Debenhams, company have
positive and healthy workplace culture which help in increase employees potentiality towards the
work performance. This will directly impacts on the people and their actions and leads to
decrease in the overall company productivity (Balwant, 2018). Whereas, politics defines as a
interference of any firm into political parties or procedures, interest groups as well as non-
governmental etc. which negatively influence the operational activities and complicated to
perform and survive in that kind of surroundings. For example: A company Debenhams leads in
political affairs then it will impacts negatively on their productivity and performances. In
addition, powers are benefited in an organisation because it is the ability to complete things in
effective manner as well as accordingly the individual prospectives. In the context of
Debenhams, company properly uses all powers in order to influence and encourage their
employees towards the completion of tasks in an appropriate manner.
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