Organisational Behaviour of A David & Co. Limited : Assignment
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1. An organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour andperformance.................................................................................................................................1TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3P2. Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effectiveachievement of goals...................................................................................................................3TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an effective team...............................6TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9P4.Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational contextand a given business situation.....................................................................................................9CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour assists in predicting and understanding individual and groupbehaviour within company. It is essential to understand the employees’ attitudes as they cometogether from various culture, style, backgrounds and so on (Alfes and et.al, 2013). The chosencompany for this report is A David & Co. Limited which deals in food and beverages. The aimof his report is to understand the culture, politics and power of company that influence thebehaviour of team as well as individuals behaviour and their performance. Content and processmotivational theories as well as techniques enable effective achievement of goals will beunderstood. Difference between effective team and ineffective team is identified as well in thisreport. Along with this application of concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour incompany into business situations. TASK 1P1. An organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour andperformance.Organisational behaviour is considered as a management activities subset relating withpredicting, influencing and knowing behaviour of people within firm. In company, variouspeople comes from different culture and has well-defined knowledge, attitudes towards its job.Therefore, it is necessary to examine the people behaviour so that work can be done as per theneeds of company. Organisational culture:This includes the rules, values and beliefs that should be followed by whole people whoare working in company. (Barry and Wilkinson, 2016). A David & Co. Limited have their ownculture which is need to be obey so that can do work according to the wants of company. Thiscan be explained with the help of Handy's culture of organisation theory. This is developed byCharles Handy and is divided into four elements. All these are mentioned below:Power culture: The senior authority of A David & Co. Limited has power to makeessential decisions for the growth as well as expansion of firm. Overall operations are handledand directed through management according to the needs of culture. Through this culturebehaviour of individuals and team are influences as it lead to attaining objectives of firm. Also,their performance can be improved.1
Role culture: In this culture, roles and responsibilities of employees are to assigned bymanager and it is performed as per the capability, skills etc. of individuals. Due to this,workersas well as team perform effectively towards the accomplishment of organisational objectives. Task culture: This culture is formed to fulfil requirements of a specific task or activity.(Chumg and et.al, 2016). Here, roles are decided according to employees skills and knowledgeso that workers can do their work as per the requirements of A David & Co. Limited. Thus, eachand every individuals and team perform efficiently in order to attain objectives of firm. Person culture: In this, individuals are more concerned about itself rather than firm. Staffcome office simply to for money and not at all attached with organisation. This culture is used byA David & Co. Ltd. For creating value, focused towards people and involve them in order tomeet self actualisation needs. It is generally executed while some activities such asdiscrimination occurs in organisation. Due to this workers concentrate towards their work, do notconcern about group members. This minimise behaviour as well as interest to do work of teamamong all employees.French & Raven's power:As per this theory, power can influence the employees behaviour within company. In ADavid & Co. Limited most of the power is given to manager and it is accountable to manageoperations of business. Some are as follows:Legitimate power:As per this, the higher authority of A David & Co. Limited isaccountable to make whole decisions regarding management. The policies as well asplans are formed by manager as power as making any decisions is vested intohands ofmanager.Rewards power: In order to motivate the employees, this power is utilised through firmmanagement so that they can perform effectively. A David co. limited managerencourages their workers by facilitating rewards that involves bonus, incentives etc. as aoutcomes both team and individuals its more efforts to accomplish the targets ofcompany.Referent power: It explains that people has capability to influence others through theirpersonality, qualities that attract another people towards themselves. (Cosh, Fu, andHughes, 2012). A David co. limited can utilise this particular power to encourage as wellas influence the employees. This is utilise by company to motivate staff to perform2
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