Costco Organizational Behavior

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Introduction
This paper is presented in partial completion of unit:12 Organisational Behaviour and will be used to analyse how an organization's culture, politics, and power influence individual and team behavior and performance. There is an old saying: "It's not what you know; it's who you know." Business politics one would say is getting ahead by being noticed and liked by the right circle of people (Rawes, n.d.). Culture, power, and politics play a critical function in business, it influences how decisions are made and how staff interacts with each other. In any type and size of organization the impact of culture, power, and politics reflects whether employees influence others in the organization negatively or positively. Politics can …show more content…

Positive power in an organization results in executive level position growing in power through the respect and communication of employees. While negative power is when executive level position lacks the respect of employee needed to uphold their status. This was evident in the merger of Costco and BJ's case, where the vice president of BJ's resigned as his weaker power base could not propel his ambition and responsibility (Zeiger, n.d.).
Politics played a key factor in the Costco and BJ'S merger case. According to Omisore and Nweke (2014, p.8) "Organizational politics relates to behaviours that are outside those in which the organization has taken a specific position for or against, the behaviors are intended to obtain selfish and individual ends that are opposed to the ends of others in the organization. " This kind of political behaviour was observed when the organization was divided, staff vied for the vice president they wish to see come out on top (Omisore and Nweke, 2014).
i) Individual behavior and …show more content…

It also establishes a standard in regards to what employees should say and do." An organization culture is a form power, it is seen as a control mechanism used to influence the external and internal conception. However, power may also present itself in an organization as one party influence over another. In such context, power an individual or group has in an organization can alter the existing culture of the organization. For example, in the case of Costco and BJ's the rivalry between the two vice president as a result of the merger change the dynamic of the organization culture. There was no clear structure, and the organization's culture was in a chaotic state as there was a division among staff (123helpme.com, n.d.).
The competition in the organization fostered political behavior among employees. Politics lead to employees in the organization to put personal interest and favoritism ahead of rational protocols. In this context, employee may find it difficult to focus on their assigned work and productivity level may decrease. The culture of the organization may be ignored by a number of employees until a competitor is eliminated and procedures return to a set structure (Managementstudyguide.com,

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