The Impact of Workgroups and Teams, and Power and Politics on the Organization’s Culture

Executive Summary

The report is a practical overview with living example of the Company XYZ that focuses on ensuring the power and politics, work group and team that is closely related to each other and that plays a significant role in improving the organizational culture. Some negative power and politics would leave a negative effect on the environment of the organization. There should be use of the power that will make a beneficial change within the culture of the organization. There should be the use of power and politics which are ethical in terms of the organization culture and behavior. The team work helps the company to grow further. The effective team work will give huge benefits to company in achieving goals and the objective as well as improve the coordination among the employees(Fullan et al., 2014). Team work is considered to be a crucial part of the culture of the organization. Individual employees can't achieve the whole of the target, that's why teamwork is considered to be the vital part of an organization. Both of these important terms have the positive as well as a negative effect on the culture of the organization. These two elements are considered to be the two side of the same coin that pushes the organization to work in the right direction and also helps them to achieve the quality of work at a time. (Pettigrew et al., 2015).Organizational culture refers to the culture that is prevailing in the organization. Culture refers to what are the actual or true beliefs of the employees while working in the organization.

Introduction

In this present paper, we will discuss the impact of the work groups and team, power and politics on the organization culture. The objective of this assignment is to provide the integrative overview on the work group and team, power and the politics of the organization culture. The company chosen in this assignment is Emirates, based out in UAE. All the impact of work groups and team, power and politics will be analyzed in the context of Emirates. . The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways to maintain the positive relationship between the culture and the work group as well as to determine the significance of the organizational culture, organizational team and the organizational work force.The main focus of this paper is to provide the course of the action that helps us in evaluating the understanding that is related to the organizational culture, work group, and the politics.

A work group refers to the collection of the group of people which have common characteristics or which have come together to achieve the common task. The work group or team work consists of a number of people that have collected to identify, interact and engage with one another on determined place and time (Alvesson, 2015). Effective team or the work group helps in achieving the goals and objectives of the organization.

Power and politics are behavior and process in communicating with human which involves authority and power. It is one of the tools that help us to determine the capacity operationally. It also takes into consideration a diverse balanced view of the interested parties. It makes use of the social networking and the power that helps the organization to achieve its benefits and it is vital for the growth of the organization.

Organizational culture plays a vital role in making the people work in the organization. The culture of the organization is the system of values and beliefs of the people that govern that how the people will behave within the organization (Landy et al., 2016). The positive culture pushes the employees to perform well in the organization that will make the organization to achieve its goal at the appropriate time. The politics in the workplace should be removed and this will help in providing the appropriate job satisfaction to the employees. It will also help in bringing the effective team work within the organization. The politics have the effect on the transparency of the organization.

Analysis

Part – 1

This part of the section emphasizes on determining the impact of the work group and the team work, power, and politics on the organization culture. There are various aspects of the researchers that help us in coming to the conclusion that the power and politics, Workgroup and the teamwork affect the culture of the organization or not.

The literature review of the paper emphasizes that the work group and team, power and the politics have a huge impact on the organizational culture. The group behavior is the mixture of several things that is communication, power, leadership politics and the practices. This, directly and indirectly, affecthe culture of the organization (Dombrowski, et al., 2013). The values are the core part of every organization culture. Power and Politics are the reflections of the culture of an organization.Organizational culture is highly determined by the politics, power, group work etc.

The paper helps in understanding that the negative impact of the power and the politics don't contribute really well to the organization growth and the productivity. Even the work group and team if creates the negative impact that is not well for the organizational culture. So the organization needs to speed up their communication that will make the cooperation easy between the employees. (Abbas et al., 2015)The basic aim of the paper is to emphasize on the principles that are essential for maintaining the authority or the leadership formally (Dombrowski, et al., 2013).

The paper is to determine that sometimes the negative power and the politics plays a destructive role in the organization growth. The employees can waste their precious time on bringing the political behavior within the organization. (O’Reilly III et al., 2015) Sometimes the political atmosphere within the organization impacts the morale, innovation, performance and the initiatives. These all are the major part of the organization culture.

The work group and team go hand in hand. So these two components have greater impact on the culture of the organization. They both are two sides of coin that help in running the organization really well.

Part-2

This part focuses on choosing one company in the UAE and then discussing the impacts of the work group and power on the organization culture. The company XYZ is one of the leading organizations of the UAE. With increase in the globalization, work group and power has grown as trend. The impact of work group and the power in the organization XYZ is both favorable and an unfavorable. The organization XYZ has some negative effects on the culture of the organization because of the conflicts that occur within the work groups, and sometimes they find difficulty in achieving the harmony within the groups. There were the positive effects in the Company XYZ because of the strong leader who is rich in knowledge and the skills. The company XYZ consists of the top management that keeps an eye on the workforce and the politics and the power and tries to bring the positive effects within the organization. The top management also focuses on reducing the negative impact on the culture of the organization. The culture plays a vital role in an organization of the UAE. In the company XYZ, there are some standards that are fixed by the managers and that help us in guiding that how the work group and the power or leadership can be improved so as to reduce the negative impact on the company (Gneezy, et al., 2016).

The Company XYZ is one of the multinational and the Westernized Company that set up the multicultural work groups and the team. By analyzing the company XYZ, there is the huge influence of the work team and the power of the culture of the organization. There are small departments that govern the work groups which help in enhancing the communication within the group more effectively.(Baylis et al ., 2014) So this helps us to determine that the work group has the positive impact on the organization culture. The small groups have the leader who has the authority to lead the group and take the major decisions related to the groups. This also somewhere impacts the culture of the organization. The effects of Work Team and politics of culture of an organization that is XYZ which are as follows:

There is negative impact of work team and politics are not followed properly in the organization which is as follows:

• Overall Productivity is decreased

If there will not be proper team work in the organization. It will not help company in achieving the goals and objectives on time (Gneezy, et al., 2016). This will affect the productivity of the Company XYZ. The result will be unfavorable.

• Concentration will be affected

Concentration will be affected in the case when the work team and the politics are not going well in the organization. So the concentration power of the people will be reduced (Gneezy, et al., 2016). It will affect the adverse effect over the culture of the organization.

• Attitude of the Employees are changed

When the more power is given to the one person and he is not doing well with the politics and the team work. (Fullan et al . , 2015)This will make the attitude of the employees to be changed.

• Employees will be Demotivated

The team is not performing very well and they are somewhere unable to complete the targets on time. This will make the employees demotivated. Happy employees are the productive one.

• Increase Stress

As the employees can’t perform really well when they are working under the stress. This will make the employees not to achieve the goals and objectives timely (Luthans et al., 2017). Generally individual fails to trust each other.

• Wrong Information

When there is no proper coordination between the groups in which the employees are working together. (Aime et al. , 2014)The information that is required to do the work is wrong then it will lead to misunderstanding and the confusion within the groups. This will also impact the coordination within the groups.

There will be the positive impact on the culture of the organization when we follow this:

• Be honest
• Person should concentrate on the work
• Don’t manipulate the information and the data
• There should be the smooth flow of the information.
• Set the goals and work accordingly.

The company is trying to bring the efficiency in the team work so that there is the efficiency within the organization. Team work and the politics help us in analyzing the better environment in the organization(Goetsch et al., 2014). The employees that indulge in the appropriate politics help in winning the appreciation from the subordinates. Employees should focus on working hard and this will help in providing the better results. In this, the leadership and the work team also plays an extensive role in the culture of the organization. These have the positive impacts on the culture of the organization which is as follows:

Provide the Job satisfaction to the employees: Employees should enjoy doing their work and they should try something innovative things while working in the organization (Senge, 2014). This will bring the job satisfaction of the employees. It will help in providing the positive culture within the organization.

Transparency: This is must for bringing the transparency within the organization. This will focus on minimizing the bad politics within the organization (Reason et al., 2016). Transparency will make the politics less and it will help in formulating the positive culture in the organization.

Teamwork: The teamwork helps in enhancing the positive environment in the culture of the organization. . ( Senge et al . , 2014) The initiative should be made in order to appreciate the team work within the organization. The team work helps to form the strong communication within the group and this will result in the achievement of the goals and objectives on time Communication: The Communication will help in building the strong platform which will help in making the work smoothly(Gilson et al., 2015). The bad communication makes an issue of conflicts within the organization. Thus the proper communication helps in making the quality of work done within the organization. The communication plays a crucial role in an organization. It will bring the positive change in the organization

Discipline: If the proper discipline will be followed within the organization then it will help in maintaining the good culture in the organization (Fullen, 2014). Culture plays a significant role in making the people work in the organization.

It is really very important to differentiate between the organizational power and the organizational politics. Power same why refers to the authority that one gets while working in the organization. Power is the mechanisms that help in solving the complex problem within the organization. (Alvesson et al. , 2015)Politics has a bad impact on the culture of the organization. Similarly, there is the difference between the individual work and the work group. Team work is the basic sector within the organization.Power and the work group affect the positively in the sustainability of the organization. Generally, power and the work group don't affect the employees negatively and even don't make the employees frustrated

Conclusion

From the above-stated report, it can be analyzed that the tactics power and the work group helps in achieving the goals and the objectives of the organization. Also, there is live experience of the Company XYZ that helps in determining that the effective work team and the politics incorporate the good impact on the working culture of the organization. When there is no effective use of the work team and power or we can say that there is no proper employer employee relationship in the organization, there will be bad impact on the culture of the organization. The team work and power also can influence the organization’s overall success. But if there is no effective work team then there are undesirable results. These two components play the critical role in the culture of the organization (Scott et al., 2015).If there is one element that is successful but the other elements are unsuccessful then the outcomes will not be favorable. There should be the close monitoring of the work team and the power and the politics. (Lyon et al.,2015)This will also make sure that the conflicts can be reduced in the organization. Team Leadership and the power and the politics lead to the successful and the failure of the organizational goals and the objectives. These two elements go hand-in-hand. The managers and the directors of the company should lay more importance on the teamwork or less importance on the politics. The research helps to determine the significance of the organizational culture in the organization. It helps in coming to the useful outcomes and the results. The judgment of this paper helps in analyzing the importance on working in the team in the course of enhancing the culture of the organization.

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