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

Unit 12 Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ................................................................................................................................................3
Examine how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.............................................................................................................3
M1 Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour/ performance..................................................................................5
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P2 Process & content theories of motivation ..................................................................................6
M2 Evaluate how to influence behaviour of others through effective application of behavioural
motivational theories, concepts and models....................................................................................7
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P3 Compare effective team opposed to ineffective team...............................................................8
M3 Analyse relevant team/ group development theories to support development of dynamic co-
operation........................................................................................................................................10
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................10
P4 Use & apply concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context and a given
business situation...........................................................................................................................10
M4 Analyse evaluate a range of concepts and philosophies in how they inform and influence
behaviour in both positive and negative ways...............................................................................12
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................14
Books & Journal:...........................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Business sector is wider and broader and is expanding at rapid scale. In this competitive
world, it is essential to focus behaviour and attitude of employee in such a way that decisions are
being undertaken in proper manner. Organisational behaviour is defined as study of individual &
team performance or behaviour (Ayman, 2018). Due to changing situations at workplace, it has
become important to have proper analysis of behaviour. It is essential to examine and analyse their
behaviour so that it is easy to make appropriate decisions. Main aim of this report is to understand
the organisational behaviour concept organisation. Morrisons, a largest supermarket headquartered
in U.K. Firms deals in daily consumable products and groceries items. It also has many competitors
such as Tesco, Walmart, Amazon, etc. This report comprises of organisational culture's politics,
power, content and process theories of motivation, effective & ineffective team and concepts as well
as philosophies of OB.
TASK 1
Examine how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Organisation includes employees who are being considered as asset of firm who provide
benefits at larger scale (Börner, 2018). Team and individual in a particular firm are important which
are required to be focused in appropriate manner. In context of Morrisons, they too have many
departments such a marketing, human resources management, etc. who work with team and
individual people to achieve objectives. In this competitive era, it is crucial to analyse their
performance as well as progress level of both team & employees. So, elements of organisations
culture, politics, power affects individual as well a team & are discussed below-
Culture-
In enterprise, organisation culture is important as culture is defined as group of people,
shared beliefs, values etc. the way people interacts with each other. In corporate sector, people
comes from different culture and also faces different culture in organisation. There are different
types of cultures which are further explained below-
Task culture- It is type of culture in which it depicts culture in which difficult tasks are
being assigned to employees, team members depending upon their level of skills or knowledge. In
relevance of selected firm, leaders and managers of team have responsibility of assigning tasks to
subordinates. This task culture shows that in this culture, it is easy to increase & enhance
kn0owledge of subordinate at higher level.

Person culture- It is another type of culture in which main focus is on individual by
themselves & in such type of culture no support and common goals are present. In context of
Morisons, there are many employees who comes into this category of culture.
Power culture- In this type of organisational culture, it focuses on authorizing or
distribution of power within team members or individuals. In relevance of selected organisation,
managers or superiors has power to distribute further to other employees (Chong, 2018).
Role- In this role culture, it shows that roles as well as responsibilities of person are well
defined. On the basis of these roles, power of person is being used. Moreover, in Morrisons, role
culture is being mainly focussed such as owners, stakeholders have different roles & accordingly
use power.
Impact on individual
Main impact of organisational culture on individual is that employees in company are being
affected by culture because of difference in individuals, perceptions etc. affects their morale &
motivation. In relevance of Morrisons, subordinates are being treated equally & which increase
their efficiency at higher level.
Positive effect
 Culture has positive effect on individual in entity as it help in analysing their behaviour,
values & learning.
Negative effect-
 It has negative effect as it help on individual because due to focus on culture and religion,
low employee engagement is present.
Impact on team members-
Organisation's culture too influences team as because in team wide number of people are
involves and if positive culture is not present then it directly affects behaviour and attitude of team
members (García-Rodríguez, 2017).
Positive effect
 Culture affects team members positively because with wide diversity of culture, team
members are able to increase their knowledge.
Negative effect-
 Due to difference in opninon of of different culture, behaviour of subordinates changes in
negative manner.