Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation, and Effective Teams

UNIT 12–
ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Organisational culture..................................................................................................................3
Politics in culture.........................................................................................................................4
Power influence individual and team..........................................................................................5
Content and process theory of motivation...................................................................................6
Process theories...........................................................................................................................8
What makes an effective team as opposed to ineffective team...................................................8
Concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour along with its evaluation...................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is basically studied in human behaviour factor who are working
within the organization (Griffin And et. al., 2020). This undertakes the way in which people
interact with different type of group and the principles of this apply to enhance effective of
business. Marks and Spenser is multinational company in retailing sector trying to motivate its
employees and improve the organizational culture. This report will evaluate the organization
culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and performance. Further the
content and process theories are determined. Moreover, concept and philosophies of
organisational behaviour within an organizational context of use and business state.
MAIN BODY
Organisational culture
The organizational culture refers to the practise that assists to create traits which are
useful for the success of the business (Belschak-Jacobs, 2018). Any company who have a healthy
culture can easily grow their revenue and grow more stock as well. The organizational culture is
combination of values and the practises which help to instruct the team members. There are
number of model developed by authors to make organizational culture more efficient. One of
those culture model is discussed below:
Handy's culture model
As per the Handy's culture model the organizational cultures can be divided into four types that
are used by any company.
Power culture: This is a type of culture in which the power is remained with few people who are
at the top-level management in the company (Seel, 2020). These people are only authorized to
take decision in the company. These people who are taking decision are having a privilege that is
limited to them only, and they are most important people for the entire organization. When they
plan something then they further delegate that information to the people working under them in
the company. As subordinate not have any other option rather than following their superior and
the chance of partiality is also can happen in such type of culture.

Task culture: This culture is developed for this organization who are totally focused to achieve
the goal and also resolve the issues in the company. The managers place all the smilier kind
whose interest and skills are same they are kept in the same team to enhance the productivity of
the company. If Marks & Spencer will have this culture then they have to make small team and
also train all the employees so that they can contribute equally. All the employees of M&S will
work together and achieve the target in creative and innovative style.
Person culture: in this culture the people of the organization are more important, and they are
also concern of their own rather than the common goals. When M&S will use this culture in its
organization then they have to face the challenges. As employees nature in such culture is just to
come office to earn the wages, and they have not more concern about the condition of
organization.
Role culture: such culture provide effective role as well as responsibility to its employees so
that they get direction to perform their activity (Blois and Hopkinson, 2017). The employees also
find the best manner to perform the activities and also efficient to face the issues. When M&S
will make use of it then their each employee is reliable for something. All the authority is equally
distributed as per the responsibility to the employees.
As per the handy's model of culture out of all this four culture the most suitable cultures
of Marks & Spencer are task culture and role culture as this are effective culture that will help in
growth and also improve the profit of the company. As the task culture will allow to give
direction to the people and role help to give them authority and responsibility so the productivity
also enhance and employees will be highly satisfied.
Politics in culture
The workplace is also placed where politics happens because employees also come with
their emotions and needs (Kothe And et. al., 2019). As in the organization is also not use to work
according to the one person so this is big reason when the different people are say different about
the same topic then it becomes hard to manage.
Good politics: this type of politics in the Marks and Spenser always improve the system, and
they find a long time solution for any issue (Ling, Kothe and Mullan, 2019). This beliefs in the
unity of employees and keep them connected so that they are more motivated towards work.