Organisational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual Behaviour

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body .......................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyse how an organisation culture, politics, and power influence individual behaviour. .3
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context...........................................6
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...........................8
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and given business situation...........................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
Books and Journals...................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
According to studies, organisation behaviour it is the study of human behaviour in an organized
organisation settings or in other words it can be described as behaviour of individuals while
being in organisational roles and their main roles are to build up organisational theory and
develop better ideas and concepts for an organisation.
Tesco company is taken in this report and it is a retailer company which is engaged in business
of insurance service and retail banking therefore Tesco is well known British multinational
company whose headquartered is located in Welwyn garden city, England. This report would be
covering political,cultural, and power effects on the management, even models and theories are
explained in this report which are barely utilized by Tesco to spread out positive environment in
an organisation.
Main body
P1 Analyse how an organisation culture, politics, and power influence individual behaviour
As per studies organisational behaviour is defined as evaluating employees behave and perform
at work place, in this way it is quite helpful and at some point it develops an understanding of all
the aspects that could motivate employee’s, so this encourage employee’s and brings enthusiasm
in them so that they can increase their (Kitchin,2017) performance and helps organisations to
build a honest, trusting and strong relationship with their employee’s.
Importance of organisational behaviour
Motivation- every person have different personality according to their knowledge and
experiences, even organisational behavior have ability to help their leaders and employees to
understand motivational tool to reach their potential.
Performance- According to studies there are many factors which affects performance ,it is said
that people with positive attitude are more creative in comparison to peoples existing with
negative thoughts , and rudeness such (Gkorezis,Petridou,2017) kind of negativity disturb their
performance.
Culture – There are are many different kinds of organisations are available across the world, and
they have positive or negative impacts on individuals who all are working in any organisation .If
every employee is treated equally and given positive environment at work place, so this increases
employee’s encouragement and and motivations and enthusiasm of working and the job
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satisfaction. There are several organisation which do not give freedom to their employees due to
this reason their employee's could not express their feelings or views to their managers or cannot
speech in direct manner so this decreases their involvement in all activities of decision making.
In the relevance of Tesco there are different kinds of culture which are implemented by their
managers.
Power culture – As per studies there are many rules and regulations which are obeyed by
employee's of an organisation. Always power is given to few peoples at workplace this means
they are authorized to take decisions and they are judged on behalf of their achievements or
performance or their developed skills. Consequently this is defied as strong culture of Tesco.
Task culture – In this organisation groups or teams are made for resolving problems as well as to
achieve organisation targets, in this all the individuals with specific interest and specializations
or skills they come together to make a team, in this culture Tesco contribute equally and fulfil
every in a proper way .
Person culture – In this culture, every individuals observe themselves as superior to the company
such kind of organisation letting peoples to work, (Waribo,2020) they just do collection of
individual who can work for the same organisation.
Role culture – This culture is mainly based on rules. These cultures tells their employee's what
are their responsibilities and roles towards their organisation. Having a reputed position is a
power in role culture. Role culture is mainly built on regulations or detailed about organisational
structure which are quite tall but not flat and following a list of long chain of commandments. It
's becoming very essential for Tesco to give positive atmosphere to existing employee's in an
organisation so that they can improve their performance because if employee's are given bonus,
promotions, or appreciation this might increase positivity(Salas-Vallina, Alegre,Fernandez,
2017) in their minds, so that they can work harder by putting all their efforts.
Politics – This defines a obstruction activity which is performed by non performing
employee's,their important aims are to drag attention of employee's with that diverting their
minds as well as distracting ambitious employee's. The politics of an organisation have 4
metaphors they are divided into woods, rocks, high grounds, and weeds. The power in rocks
gives many sources of authority like role,title, expertise these rocks symbolize a base that always
keeps their organisation steady during a crisis. High ground states few terms they are , policy,
rules, structures, procedures and guidelines they all together form a foundation of political
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