Organisational Behaviour Assignment - 4Com Plc company

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Organisational culture, power and politics: .........................................................................1
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................4
P2. Content and process theory of motivation:...........................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Evaluation of what makes an effective and ineffective team.................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P4. Concepts and philosophies(Path Goal Theory) of organizational behaviour:......................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is all about the study of individual and groups behaviour
working within the organization. It is very important to study organization behaviour as it helps
in understanding about the fact why individual behave so in the organization. In this assignment
the company which is taken into consideration is 4Com Plc company so as to explain about the
importance of organization behaviour(What is organizational behaviour?. 2017). This company
was established in 1999 in United Kingdom with the aim of improving communication services.
In this assignment a brief explanation is being given about the influence of organization culture,
politics and power upon the team behaviour and about the different motivational theories used so
as to influence workforce to achieve target goal of the firm. Lastly, the file focuses on the
concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour(Alvesson and Sveningsson, 2015).
TASK 1
P1. Organisational culture, power and politics:
Organisational culture:
Organisational culture is a study of valued, norms and beliefs of people which contribute
in social environment of the company. Organisational culture includes assumptions, values,
beliefs, language, social norms, symbols, systems, location, habits, vision etc. This is a set of
common assumption which guide what happens in company by describing proper behaviour for
several situation. Also, this culture affect that how much workers determine with their
organisation. If culture of an organisation is positive and adopt the new innovative ideas in their
organisation then its affect the efficiency of the individual as well as team.
Handy's typology of organisational culture:
This culture was introduced by the Charles Handy's in 1999. He divided this in major
four culture such as power, task, role and person culture.
Power culture: Power culture refers as culture in which power is delegated to only few
people who have authority to give orders to their employees and employees have to follow their
orders in appropriate manner. If power culture exist in 4com plc and if employees take their
manager's orders in positive way, then they can enhance their performance and achieve better
results(Barry and Wilkinson, 2016).
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