Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behavior and Performance in Unilever

Organisational Behaviour

INTRODUCTION
Organisation Behaviour is basically the study of performance of individual
working in the company and different groups working together based on different
activities set by the organisations (Wood and et.al., 2016). Present study is based on
the organisation Unilever that is a food and beverages, consumer goods company
having its headquarter in London, UK. Company was founded in the year 1929 by
William Lever and presently there are 155,000 working employees. Report will analyse
culture, politics and power of the organisations and its influence with respect to the
individual and team behaviour and performance. Further report will evaluate the way the
theories of motivation and different techniques leads to effective achievement of the
respective goals in Unilever. Report will also evaluate about the difference in effective
and ineffective team with the help of group development theories. At the end report will
to also implement different concepts and philosophies with respect to organisational
behaviour in Unilever.
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Influence of culture, politics and power over individual, team behaviour and performance
Organisational culture:-
According to Elsmore (2017) Organisational culture is basically psychology,
attitudes, experiences, cultural and personal beliefs of an organisation. It is collection of
different values and norms that people in an organisation share among themselves and
this helps in controlling the way they have interaction with each others as well as with
the stakeholders that are outside the firm.
According to Handy's Model of organisational culture, there are various cultural
aspects in an business and these cultural differences are having a great influence on
the individuals working in the organisation, its team behaviour and the respective
performance in following ways:-
Figure:- 1
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 Power Culture:- In Unilever there are some individual people who are able to
influence others working in the firm due to their high pace like different leaders of
Unilever. Different rules and regulations are set in the respective power culture
that other working employees have to follow. This type of culture is influencing
the individual employees that are working in Unilever, as they work on bases of
different rules and regulations that are set by the respective leaders that are in
power. This culture is also have a great impact on decision making of the team
as it helps to solve the conflicts by increasing the capability of the team . For the
same team follow the rules and regulations that leaders have set and this results
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Illustration 1: Handy's Model of organisational culture