Influence on individual and team behaviour and performance from organization culture, power and politics

Unit 12-
Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Influence on individual and team behaviour and performance from organization culture,
power and politics.......................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2 Evaluate the content and process theory of motivation to achieve the goals and objectives
of an organization........................................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
P3) Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context. .........................................5
An effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P4. Application of organisational behaviours with concepts within organisational context and
business situation........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is explained as the process where individual's are evaluated on
basis of their performance and work which they had performed for accomplishing the goals of an
organisation. It is necessary because it directly uplift the standards of employees at the time of
performing any of the task. The chosen organisation for this particular project is TESCO which
is a retail sector industry. It was incorporated in the year 1919 whereas its headquarter is in
Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom. For the purpose of understanding about every single
topics related to Organisational behaviour, several topics will be discussed which is will related
with culture, politics and powers. Multiple number of motivational theories will be explained
which will allow to understand that how performance of employees can be improved.
TASK 1
P1 Influence on individual and team behaviour and performance from organization culture,
power and politics
Organisational behaviours involve set of practices aimed toward gaining the
comprehensibility regarding the human behavioural characteristics in order to develop strategies
related with the employees to keep them motivated toward work. HR manager plays a significant
role in forming up an organisational behaviour by maintaining healthier relationship between
management and employees for forming up effective atmosphere (Fisher and Royster, 2016). In
order to develop effective organisational behaviour TESCO must consider three main elements
such as,
Culture:- An organisational culture is consists of shared beliefs, values, norms, visions, system
etc. that form up the inner working, interactions with outer world and behaviour pattern of
employees. The Handy's cultural typology is implemented to understand the work culture of
TESCO,
 Power culture:- This culture mainly concentrate over keeping power in the hand of one
individual who impose its order and define the manner in which it operations must be
performed. By adopting this culture TESCO would be able to get an environment where
each operation perform in systematic manner.
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 Role culture:- Under this power is determined by the roles and responsibilities that a
person have and highly controlled. By adopting this culture TESCO would be able to
improve the employees performance by providing them power as per their capability.
 Task culture:- This refers to a culture when a task or project required to completed and
power shift among the people involved as per the status of project. By adopting this,
TESCO would be able to keep its employees happy by providing them opportunity to
address the interpersonal issue and developing the healthier relations with other. Person culture:- This culture is mainly found within an organisation where professional
work in their individual capacity and have their expertise in their field (Yuan and et. al.,
2016). By adopting this culture TESCO would be able to assign its employees with the
work in which they are expertise that help in getting positive outcome from each efforts.
Importance of cultural-difference awareness : TESCO is an international retailer that manage a
diversified workforce. This develop difference in view pattern and ways actions performed by
employees, as differences in cultures results into differences in values, beliefs, visions and
expectations of employees. So, it must be consider by management while formulating policies
which support in developing a positive culture that ensure accomplishemnt of organisational goal
along with personal one. It also support in minimising the conflicts and increasing employee
satisfaction.
Hofstede's dimensions of culture theory and its application : This model was given by
Geert Hofstede, which support in understanding the cross-cultural communication so that impact
of culture over organisational behaviour can be studied. This involve six dimensions such as,
 Power distance : It is consider as the extent to which inequality as well as power can be
tolerated. This is mainly determined through the viewpoint of people having less power.
 Individualism vs. Collectivism : It refers to the degree to which people get integrated
within groups. Among them individualism focuses on achieving personal goals and
collectivism focuses on group efforts.
 Uncertainty avoidance index : This dimension focuses toward the extent to which
uncertainty avoidance by people.
 Masculinity vs. Femininity : It involves the preference of society in term of sexual
equality, behaviour etc (Arnold and et. al., 2015).
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