Organisation Behaviour: Understanding Organisational Culture, Motivation, and Effective Teamwork

ORGANISATION
BEHAVIOUR
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
PART 1............................................................................................................................................4
Understanding organisational culture and motivation over the behaviour and performance
within workplace..........................................................................................................................4
Critical analysis of organisational culture and motivational theories and the way it influences
the behaviour within organisation................................................................................................4
Overview over organisation’s culture, politics and powers.........................................................7
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8
Explaining what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team:............................8
Assessing the benefits of working in a team: identifying the mix of knowledge, skills and
experience necessary for a team to fulfil its functions in an organization:..................................9
Demonstrating and discussing the benefits of working in a team as a leader and member
towards specific goals, dealing with any conflict or difficult situations to develop roles during
teams:.........................................................................................................................................10
Applying concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour within an organizational
context and given business situation: 300..................................................................................11
Critically analysing at least two group development theories to discuss the effectiveness of
teamwork in achieving the goals:..............................................................................................11
Concluding analysis with critical reflection on the value and relevance of effective team
working for influencing behaviours in the workplace:..............................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour can be understood as study of human behaviour within corporate
settings, it is often understood as interaction between human behaviour and organisation and firm
itself. This study helps in understanding how people interact with others and its standards that
makes the business perform more efficiently (Azeem and et.al 2021). OB helps in predicting the
organisational life, it also helps in understanding the nature and process of workplace culture.
Organisational culture plays a significant role in studying OB where having strong and better
culture will lead to productivity. Unilever a British multinational merchandise with headquarter
in London, company sells numerous range of product to their consumer worldwide. Following
study will be done in two part where first part will discuss about organisational culture and
motivational theories and its implications over behaviour within organisation. furthermore, report
will cover benefits of working in team along with discussion over group development theories
for the effectiveness of teamwork.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Understanding organisational culture and motivation over the behaviour and performance within
workplace
Organisational culture (OC) refers to collection of values and expectations; it is the set of
values that shapes the behaviour of every individual who are at workplace. Having set of
principles within cultures will helps the firm to accomplish their desired goals (Bayanova and
et.al 2019). Culture defines how to behave in certain manner and by concerning with business
ethics as well, it has greater influence over the individual as a result their specific behaviour and
attitude with distinct job roles in organisation. this culture generally consists of shared beliefs,
ethics values that is fostered by leaders and then communicated and strengthened it through
different methods, ultimately it concerns with shaping the perceptions, behaviour of employee.
Unilever itself a biggest juggernaut in their sector, it is essential for them to have corporate
culture where business values and other ethics are being found in order to operate successfully.
Motivation can be referred as internal force which impacts the intensity, tolerance of
human’s voluntary behaviour. It is the efficient process which mainly encourage the person to do
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any task with efficiency, it guides them to manage the goal oriented behaviour. At workplace it
has greater influence over the employees where if they are feel motivated then ultimately it
reflects in positive outcomes (Slijepcevic and Krstic, 2020). Leaders are those who are in charge
of this motivation factor where they manage their team and always tell them to move forward by
using their creativity and knowledge. Having a corporate culture with good values makes a
productive workplace where employees looks encouraged in their work, it all depends on the
thing which firm provide in terms of monetary as well as non-monetary benefit. Unilever has
such arrangement at their workplace which motivates their workers to create innovative and
other successful opportunities for them.
Critical analysis of organisational culture and motivational theories and the way it influences the
behaviour within organisation
Organisational culture has a greater role in business success as well as poor culture will
lead firm to failure, motivational theories also assists in providing the better insight into what
arrangement are required to make employee perform efficiently. Some of organisational culture
model and motivational theories are discussed below:
Clan culture: It simply can be understood as family type corporate environment which concern
with commonality of objectives and business values, it is one of the collaborative and less
competitive culture (Balli, Ustun and Balli, 2021). In such employers are more responsible with
their work and they behave properly with their employees, it drives greater employee
engagement and loyalty.
Hierarchical culture: It emphasize the greater term business stability, consistent workplace
environment and also promotes the shared values among employees. It is typically focused on
firm structure by execution of the specific processes and set of rules and duties within
organisation. major benefit of this type culture is that there is more transparency at workstation
where clear lines of administration is found, employees are more accountable towards their job
role.
Adhocracy culture: This culture is based on ability to acquire the knowledge and certain change
conditions rapidly. Adhocracies are determined by the agility, worker empowerment and greater
concern regarding individual initiatives. It simply encourages the people to show their creativity
and to bring certain growth opportunities for the business.