Hewlett-Packard: A Critical Analysis of Organizational Behaviour

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Unit Number & Unit Title Unit 12ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Assignment Title HEWLETT-PACKARD
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
TASK ONE................................................................................................................................4
1. Critically, analyse how HP’s culture, politics and power would or have influenced the
behaviour of individuals or teams in the organisation...............................................................4
2. EVALUATE HOW MASLOW’s Or HERZBERG’S CONTENT THEORIES AND
VROOM’s PROCESS THEORY OF MOTIVATIONAL TECHNIQUES ENABLE
EFFECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT OF GOALS IN HP OR ANY OTHER ORGANISATION
YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH..................................................................................................7
3. Critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective
application of behavioural motivational theories, concepts and models. You may support your
points with practical examples, from any organisation............................................................13
4). Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that
enables teams and organisations to succeed, providing justified recommendations...............15
Conclusion................................................................................................................................18
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INTRODUCTION
The term “Organizational Behaviour” refers to the process of managing and maintaining all
the organizational aspects in an effective manner. Organizational behaviour allows a
company to measure the performance and activities of a group and individual inside the
company. This specific study helps to determine human nature, behaviour inside the
workplace and how it makes impact on the structure of the organization, job, interaction
process, management and leadership, other different perspective (internal and external).
This assignment emphasizes on identifying and analysing the impact of politics, culture and
power on the behaviour of a team or a group within the workplace in the context of Hewlett
Packard (HP). In this assignment, two different organizational theories are selected in order
to explain how those are related with the workplace and how those help to manage
organizational aspects. The last part of the assignment includes the relationship among
organizational culture, power and politics and they influenced the company towards success
are also provided along with proper recommendations.
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TASK ONE
1. Critically, analyse how HP’s culture, politics and power would or have influenced the
behaviour of individuals or teams in the organisation
OVERVIEW OF HEWLETTPACKARD
HP (Hewlett Packard) is one of the renowned companies across the world for its excellent
quality products (e.g. hardware, software, networking components and others) and services.
HP is an American MNC, which headquartered in Palo Alto in California. In the present day,
HP is providing various hardware and software components to their clients (e.g. small and
medium businesses, government agencies, health and social cares and normal customers)
(Miner, 2015).
In the year of 1979, HP was founded by Hewlett and Packard in one-car garage in the Palo
Alto and firstly, the company manufactures different electrical components (especially
electrical test component). Form the year of 2007, HP became the leading PC manufacturer
company across the globe. The company is also involved in manufacturing data storage,
computing, networking related hardware, software designing, printers and many other
products.
CULTURE AND HP CULTURE
The term “organizational culture” refers to the process of reflecting the traditions and ethics
of an organization through its working activities inside and outside of the workplace (Luthans
et al., 2015). As HP is a multinational company and includes a massive market share and
profit share inside the market, therefore the company includes a large number employees and
most of them are of different background. Therefore, a diversification among their cultures
can be identified. This diversified culture inside the workplace leads the company towards
failure as due to cultural difference of the employees, they are failed to communicate with
each other effectively and as a result, the teamwork inside the workplace is hampered along
with working efficiencies of the company.
POWER AND HP POWER
In case of power, it has been identified that HP likes to maintain the hierarchical structure in
its working environment and therefore, the administration and management of the company
hold the highest power and their orders should be followed by all the employees. The main
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