Influence of Organizational Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Performance

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1. Influence of organizational culture, politics and power on individual, team and their
performance.................................................................................................................................3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
P2. Content & process theories and techniques of motivation that enable effective
achievement of organisational goals...........................................................................................6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................7
P3. Factors that make an effective team different from an ineffective team..............................7
LO4................................................................................................................................................10
P4 Concepts and philosophies of OB........................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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·INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is the academic study of human behaviour at the organizational
setting. It is the study of how a human behaves in the organization and the groups. It helps in
developing understanding the behaviour of employees that impacts job structure, performance,
communication, motivation etc. Asda is a British supermarket chain which was founded in 1949
by Peter and Fred Asquith. It deals with all kinds of grocery products, general merchandise and
financial services. It has its headquarters in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It is the wholly owned
division of Walmart. In the further report the following points will be touched upon:
organizational culture, politics, and power of Asda. Theories and techniques of motivation that
enable effective achievement of organizational goals. Also, light will be thrown on what makes
an effective team opposed to an ineffective team and various concepts and philosophies of
organizational behaviour within Asda in a given situation.
·LO1
·P1. Influence of organizational culture, politics and power on individual, team and their
performance.
·Organizational Culture : Organizational culture consist of all the values, beliefs, norms and
assumptions of the organization. Every organization is unique and that uniqueness of Asda is the
culture of it. Asda adopts Handy's culture in their organization which is of following types:
·Power culture – This culture is like spider web and the key to whole organization is centre. In
Asda there are few rules and regulation in power culture and control radiates from the centre.
Individual feels motivated as they have the power of decision-making but sometimes may feel
pressure as they are judged based on their performance which leads to decrease employee morale
and sometimes high turnover. In case of team they get demotivated as decision-making power is
with some people so there comes the lack of creativity in teams which impacts their
performance.
·Role culture - In this culture power comes from the position or role of the person. This
organization are based on rules. Role culture of Asda are build on detailed organizational
structure. Individuals have no confusion regarding roles as it is clearly specified in this culture

therefore performance enhances but in case of team this culture may lead to chaos as every one
wants to use their powers and this will lead to decrease performance (Anitha, 2016).
·Task culture - This culture is adopted to address specific problems or projects. The objective
of Asda to adopts this culture is to bring together the resources and the right people for
attainment of the objective by solving critical problems. As team members will give priority to
the task for which the team is formed so it will enhance performance of both team and
individual.
·Person culture – In this culture individual are given priority and are the focal point in the
organization. In Asda person culture individual believes themselves unique and superior to the
organization.
·Organizational Politics : It is the process to influence decision-making of an individual in an
organization to obtain one's preferred outcome. Asda refers organizational politics as an
influence by individual which serves their personal interest without regarding their effect on
organization. There are two types of politics in an organization which is good and bad. When the
employees of Asda engages in publicizing one's complements, volunteering and complementing
others is a kind of good politics and individual feels motivated to perform better and team unity
also increases which ultimately enhance their performance. When the employees engage in
spreading rumours, not telling important information, building networks for personal gains etc
all comes under bad politics. Politics is the lubricant that oils the gear of organization but if
done only to obtain personal gains can be highly destructive (Jain. and Ansari, 2018). Individual
feel left out if others are talking behind their back and also team may not be able to perform at
its full potential as concentration will be in gaining personal gains.
·Organizational Power : It is the ability of an individual to influence others. Asda defines
power as the possession of authority and to influence others. There are five types of power in an
organization which are as follows:
·Legitimate power – It is the power which is derived from the formal position as per the
hierarchy. In Asda it is held by the top authorities. Individuals can look up to the people with
power as their role model and in case of team if there is frequent interfere then members may get
demotivated and sometimes leaders can also abuse their powers (Сафаров, 2020).
·Reward power – It is the power to give rewards in return of their good performance. In Asda
this reward can be given in monetary as well as non-monetary terms and the role is played by the