The Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on the Behavior of Others in an Organizational Behaviour
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ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR
ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1 Analyze the influence of culture, politics and power on the behavior of others in anorganizational context......................................................................................................................11.1 organizational culture before the new CEO and how did the changes influenced thebehaviour of the individuals, teams and performance.................................................................11.2 What sort of power did the new CEO have and how did this influence the behavior of theindividuals, teams and performance in the organization.............................................................21.3. Explain the organizational politics used in organization and how did this influence thebehavior of the individuals, teams and performance in the organization....................................2TASK 2: Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal.................................32.1. What are the Content and Process theories of motivation....................................................32.2 How would you use these theories of motivation along with any other motivationaltechniques to help achieve the organizational goals and improve team effectiveness?..............4The importance of soft skills for managers and team......................................................................5There can also be an application of contingency theory which states that there is not a singlebest way to manage the employees rather the need is to adopt an optimal technique which isbased on the internal and external situations that are present in the company. However, there isalso an existence of contemporary barriers to effective behavior such as absence of propersystems of communication that was prevalent in th organization during the time of old CEO.This may still act as a barrier if proper step is not taken by the management. Another suchbarrier can be of improper policy enforcement if it is not the one that has been mentioned inpapers. It can thus create a feeling of unfairness and low morale among the employees...........8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
a) Identify and explain the different types of teams within the BBC and why having differenttypes of teams are important......................................................................................................11b) With reference to Tuckman model of team development explain what makes an effectiveteam in the BBC.........................................................................................................................12
INTRODUCTION Organizational behavior revolves around studying the employees in terms of their behavior andactions that put an effect on their overall working within the company (Brubaker and et.al.,2014). The firms are required to study this concept so as to assess what motivates the employeesand how can there overall performance be improved (Kallio, Kallio and Blomberg, 2015). Thepresent study is based on a case about ABC Company whose employees faced issues related todemotivation and low job satisfaction during the span of previous CEO. The newly employedCEO however introduced new policies so as to improve the overall organizational culture. Ateam has been formulated so as to solve the overall problem faced by the employees. Henceemphasis of the study will be on discussing how culture, politics and power have influencedemployee behavior in ABC Company. Focus will also be given on motivational as well as teambuilding strategies. TASK 1 Analyze the influence of culture, politics and power on the behavior of others in anorganizational context1.1 Organizational culture before the new CEO and how did the changes influenced the behaviorof the individuals, teams and performance Before the new CEO the culture of ABC group was of power culture where authority was in thehands of few managers who controlled the entire firm. The management adopted a toughapproach which resulted in low motivation of the employees. The lack of communication alsodecreased the job satisfaction of the employees as they had no one to approach when they facedany difficulties (Ramesh and Ravi, 2017). The managers further treated all the employeesbelonging to different cultures in the same manner which made things worse. The new CEO brought several changes in the culture where emphasis was majorly given oncreating an awareness of cultural-differences among the managers. The CEO further focused onthe fact that due to rise of globalization there has been a presence of employees working fromdifferent cultures. The digital technology has further reduced geographical distances and the useof video conferencing etc. can help in getting work done as a team even if employees are farapart from each other (Abrell-Vogel and Rowold, 2014). He thus made use of Hofstede’sdimensions of culture theory. For example, the employees who were from US had a tendency toshare free information and also gave inputs on account of low power distance. Hence themanagers were told to have low power distance relations with the employees so that they do not1
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