Influence of Culture, Politics, Power on Performance and Behavior

Unit 12 –
Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Influence of Culture, Politics, Power of organisation on the performance and behaviour of
Individual & Team .....................................................................................................................3
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P2 Impact of Content and Process theories of motivation techniques on accomplishment of
organisational goal .....................................................................................................................7
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3 Define Effective & Ineffective Team .................................................................................10
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................12
P4 Philosophies of Organisational Behaviour in context of Business Situations ....................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organisational Behaviour refers as an useful aspect which is helpful to understand the
each and every activities related to the performance of individual and group members. It is
consider as a systematic method and application of essential knowledge that is demonstrate that
how individual and team members behave within an organisation. There are four elements of
organisational behaviour like structure, people, technology and internal & external environment
of the organisation. In this report, Marks & Spencer organisation behaviour will be analyse. It is
a British multinational company that mainly operate their business in retailing sector. This
company established in 1884 and the headquarter in London, UK. M&S is selling various
products related to home, food, cloths etc. This report will define the influence of culture,
politics and power of organisation on the individual and team performance and behaviour.
Beside this, analyse the importance of techniques of motivational theories and define the
significance of effective and ineffective team. Moreover, evaluate the philosophies of
organisation behaviour.
TASK 1
P1 Influence of Culture, Politics, Power of organisation on the performance and behaviour of
Individual & Team
It is mandatory to analyse the impact of organisational culture, politics and power on the
performance and behaviour of individual and team members. All these elements can affect
performance and behaviour of M&S individual and team positively and negatively both that are
discussed below-
Influence of Culture on performance and behaviour of Individual & Team -
Organisation culture mainly influences the value , self esteem, politeness ,belief, and
assertiveness. Through useful consideration related to the individual and team, it can affect the
over all performance and behaviour (Aderibigbe, Nwokolo and Oluwole, 2019). M&S can use
Handy's Model for the effective practices of organisational culture within internal environment.
The description of this model are given below-
Handy's Model of Organisational Culture
This model given by the Charles Handy that explained four types of culture including
power, role, task and person. All these culture types are essential for to create the effective

organisational culture. M&S use this model for better organisational culture which are discussed
below-
Illustration 1: Handy's Model of Organisational Culture, 2018
 Power Culture – The power of culture is lead by some individual that influence the
success of organisation directly. This consider some rules and regulation that are need to
consider for effective powerful culture. M&S culture is very powerful and the power of
the company determined by the managers and higher management employees. Power
culture is a strong culture enhance the productivity level of organisational individual and
team (Aliyu, et. al., 2020). Role Culture – Individual and team members of the organisation delegated with the
effective role and the power of the individuals are determine by their position and role
that they used to play within an organisation. M&S role culture consider the effective
organisational structure that mainly tall with a longer chain of command. Task Culture – This culture follow when team of the organisation are facing specific
issues. All the task of the company are completed by the skilled personalities. The power
in the team can shift to the other team members who are more capable to complete the