Relationship between culture, power, politics and motivation in organizations

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Relationship between culture, power, politics and motivation that enables companies and teams...........3
Critical evaluation of Content and process theories of motivation...........................................................9
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................................9
Team development theories in context of organizational behavior..........................................................9
Philosophies and concepts influence behavior in workplace.................................................................13
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior refer to procedure of motivating staff and improving their skills,
it implies for learning of activity and performance pertaining to group and one applicant.
The current report is based on TESCO, is leading supermarket chain in UK with different
outlets in all over the world. This study explain how culture, power and political influence team
and firm to success, and also define how motivational theories as well as techniques help to
achieve organizational goals. Furthermore, it also clarified team development theories and
concept & philosophies of organizational behavior that influence behavior in workplace
negatively and positively.
PART 1
Relationship between culture, power, politics and motivation that enables companies and teams
Organizational culture, power, politics and motivation relationship is based on their
outcomes, it help to develop and team and make firms able to sustain for longer. The culture of
organizations play vital role in development of team, it might be impact positively or negatively.
By using appropriate theory the impact of organizational culture on individual and group define
below-
Hand’s Model of organizational culture-
This model is consist with four different kinds of culture exist in companies such as
power, role, task and person.
Power culture-
In company with this culture, power is held by just two or three applicants whose
influence spreads throughout the company (Rutihinda, 2019). There are few regulations and rules
in this kind or culture, those who have this power to take decision impact negatively or positively
on team and firms. For example, when person used their power for taking decision without
making any differences and provide fair change to make group able to progress, it can impact
positively and also allow firm to gain competitive benefits with strong team. On the other hand,
when power for taking decision are used unfairly it impact negatively on team they cannot be
able to succeed.

Role culture-
Along with above culture, many companies had role culture in workplace that influence
and enable team as well as businesses to succeed. Firms with this culture are based on rules, they
are extremely controlled with everyone in company knowing what their accountabilities and
roles are. Roles cultures are established on detailed organizational structures such as TESCO
which are usually big with a long chain of command. Power is divided according to the role of
applicants in company, as it impact positively when decision taken by person according to their
role is right, that influence team and drive them towards success such as identify needs of
training for everyone. On the other hand, decision making in this type of organizational culture
can often be harmful and companies is less likely to take risks. In simple words, firms with roles
culture tend to be very inflexible (Al Badi, 2019).
Task culture-
This culture in companies are forms when group of applicants in workplace are formed to
identify specific issues. It enables team of achieve their business goals and objectives in effective
manner. In task culture work has been divided in company based on abilities of teams and skills
of their members which work effectively and provide many benefits to organization such as
increase productivity, profitability and bring innovative ideas to solve issues.
Person culture-
Person culture in companies enables individual to succeed but does not allow team to get
better success in their lives. According to this organizational culture individual think about their
own work and objectives, they are less interested for supporting and helping other applicants that
impact negatively on team and companies success.
Raven and French bases of power-
With the help of this model the influence of power on team and companies to succeed
will be defined.
Legitimate power-
It is traditional power within TESCO, where a manager or leaders has due to status of
their position. Legitimate power cater abilities to link some notion of feeling and responsibilities