Organizational Behavior: Structures, Cultures, Leadership Styles and Management Approaches

Organizational behavior

Introduction
Organization behavior is regarded as the study of both group and individual performance and activity within in an
organization.
Internal and external are two major perspectives through which organizational behavior can be comprehended.

Task 1
a) Compare different organizational structures and
cultures
I) A multi- national company
 Associated British Foods plc is a British multinational food processing
and retaining company.
 In terms of organizational structure, different departments have been
made which manages different functions and in which employees are
authorized to perform different activities as per their job roles.

ii) A government agency or department
 The Government Communications Headquarters is a British
intelligence and security organization.
 It provides signals intelligence and information assurance.
 The organization has been following centralized structure.

iii) Organization that encourages flexible working
 Tesco is a large multi-national organization and it has been working in
UK from past many years.
 In terms of organizational culture, Tesco is one such entity that has
flexible working conditions.

Contd..
 Centralized structure is the one in which only top authority can direct other
people and lower management is not involved in organizational decision making
processes.
 However, on the other hand, in decentralized structure, management gets opinion
from the subordinates as well and those people are also involved in decision
making process.