How does culture, politics and power of organisation affect individual and team performance?

Unit - 12

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Analysing the ways in which culture, politics addition to power of company influence
behaviour and performance of individual together with team.....................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2. Evaluation based on how content along with process theories of motivation as well as
motivational techniques enable achieving organisational goals effectively................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3. Explaining what makes an effective team opposed to ineffective team................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4. Application of certain concepts along with philosophies related to organisational
behaviour in content to a company and business situation..........................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour could be described to a study about how people act in various
group settings. The manner in which individuals carry out operations together in teams has
important impact on overall efficiency and productivity that influence organisational
competitiveness. Technology, people, external environment and structure are major elements of
the concept. Purpose of present report is to establish influences which culture of company and
motivational technique have on behaviours and performance in workplace. For understanding
organisational behaviour, selected company is Boots which was founded in 1849 by John Boots
(Boots, 2021). Its headquarters are located at Beeston, UK and it trades as beauty and health
retailer along with pharmacy chain within UK addition to other countries such as the
Netherlands, Indonesia, Ireland, Thailand, etc.
The report analyses influence of power, culture and politics on behaviours of others in a
company. It further evaluates ways to motivate people and team for goal attainment. The report
demonstrates understanding of ways for effective cooperation and application of certain
philosophies with business situation.
TASK 1
P1. Analysing the ways in which culture, politics addition to power of company influence
behaviour and performance of individual together with team
Organisational behaviour is subcategory of activities of management related to
understanding, forecasting along with influencing behaviour of human resources within business
setting (Furnham and MacRae, 2017). In Boots, managers understand human interactions, find
elements which drives them along with influence them for obtaining better outcomes in reaching
goals. Mentioned below are analysis about influence of organisational culture, power and politics
on performance and behaviour of individual together with team in context to Boots:
Culture:
Patterns of learned addition to shared behaviour, belief, values, etc of specific group is
termed as culture. Organisational culture is assortment of expectations, practices addition to
values which guide, inform, direct and manage actions of all human resources. Handy’s cultural
theory is one of popular organisational culture model that includes following set of cultural type:
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Power culture: It defines organisational culture in which top authority makes rapid
decision along with control directions of whole business (Leigh, 2017). In Boots, if person
culture is adopted then an individual having power delegates certain operations and makes
decision of their own which influences behaviour of individual and team negatively because they
are not included in decision making.
Role culture: A culture type in which structure is defines along with operations are
predictable is role culture. It is highly job oriented and employees need huge security and
stability in the culture. If managers of Boots adopt role culture, then every workforce is
delegated responsibilities as per their interest and specialisation that influences performances of
each individual and behaviour of team members as they are accountable for work assigned to
them.
Task culture: A organisational culture that includes formation of teams to carry out
specific tasks including achieving targets or working to solve critical problem is said to task
culture. If task culture is followed in Boots, then each individual and team have to contribute
equally along with accomplish tasks innovatively that results in positive influence on their
performance and behaviour.
Person culture: A culture of company in which each person is considered valuable and
significant than organisation is said to be person culture. When person culture is followed in
Boots then individual along with team becomes more focuses for self despite of looking towards
business that leads to taking back seat and suffering leading to negative influence of behaviour
and performance.
Among mentioned organisational culture, role culture is followed at Boots in which every
individual together with team have roles and responsibilities in accordance to their specialisation,
interest, educational qualification, etc. In this, employee and team decide what best they can
perform and accept challenges that influences tehri behaviours and performances in great manner
(Lee, Oh and Park, 2020).
Power:
It is the potential for controlling people and situations. Organisational power refers to the
competence for influencing actions of another stakeholder within workplace. Power of a person
is measured through extent they influence others for getting something done. French and Raven
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