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HNBS 312 Organisational Behaviour

   

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HNBS 312ORGANISATIONALBEHAVIOUR (1&2)

ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................31. Analyzing how organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behavior and performance...........................................................................................................32. Evaluating how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques help in achievement of goals.......................................................................................................43. Explaining what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.........................74. Applying philosophies and concepts of organizational behavior............................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTIONOrganization behavior becomes crucial for firm as it influences overall performance of workforce. Present report deals with Google which is a giant in technology sector offering wide variety of products and services. Report will discuss need of adequate organization culture in Google for attaining goals. Moreover, organization’s culture, power and politics influences individual and performance of team will be explained. Content and process theories of motivation along with motivational techniques will be enumerated. Significance of effective team will be discussed as opposed to ineffective team. Concepts and philosophies of organizationbehavior applying to company’s situation will be explained. MAIN BODY1. Analyzing how organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behavior and performance The organization culture has much influence on individual and team behavior, performance also influences. Google has diversified employees which carry out their duties in the best way possible. It becomes essential for the company to earn profits and at the same time initiate better culture, politics and power so that organization culture may be maintained in a better way (Kitchin, 2017). The analysis of organization culture, politics and power influence on team behavior and performance is listed below-Influence of cultureThe Handy’s Model of organizational culture can be analyzed on how it has influence on company’s individual, behavior of team and performance. The four kinds of culture are described below-Power cultureThe power is held within few people in Google whose influence is spread over the others.Employees are usually judged by what they can achieve and it is ignored how they act. The bad consequence can be happen in which quick decisions are to be made. This is a strong culture which has influence over individuals and their performance (Mester, Andrews, Allen, 2018).Role culture-As the name suggests, everyone in Google are assigned with respective roles and they perform accordingly. They are highly controlled and power in role culture is effectively assessed by position or role in firm. However, consequence arises as company is likely to take less risks.Task culture-

Teams are united for attaining specific projects in task culture. Task is an crucial thing and power will not remain in one’s hand and will shift among others based on adequate mix of members. Thus, right mix of individuals possessing skills, leadership is enhanced and projects are accomplished.Person culture-Individuals seek themselves as superior to firm. They are banded simply for accomplishment of tasks and collections of people are formulated for completing the work within stipulated time.Influence of politicsThe politics in firm is termed as actions not approved by management for influencing others to meet personal interests (Burrell and Morgan, 2017). It includes controlling access to information, making a favorable impression towards others, cultivating support base for personalbenefits. Moreover, blaming others and attacking to them. This effectively leads to negative atmosphere in company and Google need to resolve the same as people gets disheartened because of such allegations and bad politics in firm. It requires that people should be offered with healthy environment for work so that they may achieve desired productivity. Thus, influence of politics is much on team behavior which ultimately leads to affect overall performance.Influence of powerThere are various types of power which influences team behavior. Reward and coercive power which is individual’s capacity for controlling reward and punishments. Legitimate power is recognized right of employee for exercising authority over others as position is assigned in a hierarchy. Another one is expert power that is control on the basis of skills and knowledge. Thus,these types of power lead to influence performance of people and team behavior. While, another power is referent power highlighting that employees who are liked by others can alter their actions to directives paved by employees (Silberzahn and et.al., 2018). Thus, power leads to influence team performance, behavior of individuals in organization.2. Evaluating how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques help in achievement of goalsContent theoriesThe content theories are termed as needs theories as they are concerned with an person’s needs and analyses what driving force motivates him to do work and what they do for accomplishing satisfaction. Various content theories widely used are as follows-Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

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