Effects of Culture, Power and Politics on the Organisation : Assignment

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1. Influence of culture, politics and power in the organisation.................................................1
A) Use of Handy’s cultural typology to determine the cultural in BBC.....................................3
B) Analyse of power, cultural and politics and its effect on BBC...............................................4
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluation of content and process theories of motivation......................................................4
A) Content and process theories..................................................................................................5
B) Role of motivation in achieving organisational behaviour. ...................................................7
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Feature of an effective team against ineffective team ...........................................................8
A) Different type of teams.........................................................................................................10
B) Elements to form effective team..........................................................................................11
TASK4...........................................................................................................................................12
P4. Application and concepts of organisation behaviour...........................................................12
A. Path Goal Theory to improve team performance. ................................................................12
B). Barriers in effective team performance of BBC.................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Culture is a set of knowledge, morals and social behaviour which is performed by
particular group in the society. Organisational behaviour is the study of human behaviour in the
organisation. Through it company can analyse the performance of its employees. In the
organisation, persons comes from different backgrounds and culture. All people have different
attitude towards the work so its important for the company to identify the behaviour of its
employees for the efficient work in the organisation (Strongman, 2013). This report discuss
about the organisational behaviour of BBC. British Broadcasting Corporation is established in
United Kingdom and it is a broadcasting company. The aim of this assignment to analyse the
organisational behaviour and culture of BBC. This reports covers the following topics like-
influence of culture, politics and power in company, motivational theories, and different types of
team in the company. Apart from this, report also talks about the organisational theories for the
better performance and productivity of staff and it helps in improving the performance of
organisation.
TASK 1
P1. Influence of culture, politics and power in the organisation
Organisational behaviour is important to evaluate the behaviour of persons in the
company. An organisation cannot survive without its staff and for that it is essential to analyse
the behaviour of its employees so that they can be channelised in the right direction. All
companies have its own working culture and persons have to perform according to the culture.
Organisations have its own plans and policies which are to be followed by all employees .
Organisational behaviour is the study of the way persons interact within group. Organisational
culture is the culture of a company and its include rules,beliefs and customs of an organisation
which is need to be followed by its staff. BBC has its own culture in the company. Handy's
organisational culture are as follows-
Power culture:
Power is consist in the management and top level authorities in the company. Only they
have power to take decisions in the organisations (Karsh, Waterson and Holden, 2014). In BBC,
power is vest in the hands of manager and they can take decisions.
Role culture:
1