Organizational Behavior: Culture, Power, and Motivation

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1) Analyze the organization culture politics and power influence the individual and team
behavior.......................................................................................................................................3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................3
P2) Evaluate the content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques.......3
LO3..................................................................................................................................................3
P3) what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team........................................3
LO4..................................................................................................................................................3
P4) Apply concepts and philosophies of the organizational behavior........................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
LG corporation is life's good which is a multinational company and was founded in the
1947 by the koo in-hwoi. It is dealing in the electronics items like the television and it is
providing the products like the telecommunication and information technology products as well.
It is spread all over the world and across the 80 countries as well. Company is situated in the
South Korea and from that it is operating all over the world (Landers, and et.al., 2015). The
report includes the content and the process theories which would have effect on the performance
of the individual and team behavior. It also includes the organisational culture and the power,
politics and culture model is applied on the organisation. The effective team importance are
discussed in the report and the concept of the organisational behavior are discussed in the report.
These points discussed in the report would provide the knowledge to the students about the
organisation and the environment of the company as well.
LO1
P1) Analyse the organization culture politics and power influence the individual and team
behaviour
Culture model influencing the individual and the team performance
Organization culture is affecting the performance of the employees which are working in
the company. The culture has the types which include the clan culture, market culture, hierarchy
culture and many more. These types of the culture is implemented by the organisation but the LG
is using the handy culture model for improving the performance of the employees.
According to the handy culture model the company must focus on the power, role person
and task. Power culture is influencing the employees which are working in the organisation
(Reeve 2016). These are some rules in the power culture which would result in the strict
discipline among the employees which are working in the organisation. LG need to control the
employees form the center and the concentrate only upon the few employees which are giving
their best. In the power culture swift decisions are possible. In role culture the employees have
the authorities upon them and their exist no power among the employees. Task culture the team
are formed and the teams are working on the projects. The person cultures the employees feel
free and are superior for the business.
Politics model influencing the individual and the team performance

organizational politics has the impact in the performance of the employees and the
performance of the company as well. There are four types of the politics model which include
the personal, structural, organizational and decision. In the personal structure the employee are
affected by the personal problems. Organizational model is affecting the performance and it
includes the organizational politics. In the decision politics the decisions are depended upon the
higher authorities. In the structural politics the structure of the organizations is changed and the
employees are according the change in the company structure in the effective way. These are
affecting the employee performance and the employees are not encouraged for the team
performance as well. The team performance and the individual performance is affected by the
change of the structure of the organizations LG has now recruited many employees and these
employees are efficient but the structure of the organizations is changing so it is affecting the
performance of the employees.
Types of the power and its influence on the employees
Power is influencing the employees and the team members also but the power are of
many types which include the rewards power, coercive power, legitimate power and many more
(Vitolla, Rubino and Garzoni 2017). Rewards power is used by the organisation for motivating
the employees of the organisation and the employee would work in the effective manner. LG is
using the reward power in which the company is motivating the employees which are working
effectively. The employees need motivation from time to time and the performance of the
employees is being improved as well. In power culture the power is given to the one employee
that one employee is the leader to the power is given to the senior authorities which are working
for the company.
LO2
P2) Evaluate the content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
Content theories are the theories which are discussing the what would motivate the
individual or the team member. The process theory is focusing on how they would motivate the
individual or the team member. Content theories are Maslow needs of hierarchy and the process
theory is Adams equity theory.
Content theory Maslow need of hierarchy