Organisational Behaviour - Sample Assignment

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Assessment of organisational culture, power and politics on performance or behaviour of
individual or team. .....................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effective
achievement of goals...................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Understanding of what makes an effective team, as opposed to an ineffective team............6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context and a given business
situation.......................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Organisational Behaviour is a set of various activities, which helps the management team
of the company in understanding behaviour of employees. With the help of this, company can
improve employee’s efficiency by predicting and controlling human resources working for a
common organisational goal (Ullah and et.al., 2017). Organisational behaviour is concerned with
understanding, controlling and directing behaviour of employees of an organisation. The current
project is based on Waitrose & Partners, it is a British Supermarket chain which provide food
products. Its headquarter is located in Bracknell, England and about 353 stores across United
Kingdom. Along with this company export its products in approximately 52 countries. This
report provide detailed information about how companies productivity and performance get
influenced by politics, power and culture. Along with this, further discussion is included about
different theories and techniques of motivation, which will help management team of the
company in influencing and motivating employees, so that they can perform in an effective
manner. In addition to this, effective and ineffective team with their roles while cooperating with
other employees at workplace has also been discussed. At the end of this project, organisational
behaviour concept and philosophies will be discussed, as a result it will help managers while
dealing in various situation which happen at workplace.
TASK 1
P1 Assessment of organisational culture, power and politics on performance or behaviour of
individual or team.
Organisational behaviour is a study about how an individual act within an organisational
premise. Main aim of organisational behaviour is to analyse and understand the actual behaviour
of staff members. So that, manager can motivate or direct them according to the requirements
and needs of a company (Illien, Golestanian and Sen, 2017). Waitrose & Partners is a Super
chain market which is supplying their food products within UK. Human Resource manager of
the present company realise that each and every employee is not performing their task
effectively. In this regard, manager of the enterprise planned to improve organisational culture in
order to enhance performance of workers. Performance of individual or group can be influence
by culture, power and politics within an organisation are as follows:
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