Report on Organizational Behavior of BBC

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
a) Earlier organisational culture followed within BBC by using Handy's cultural typology......1
b) Influence of power, culture and politics on behavior of BBC.................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
a) Content and process theories of motivation............................................................................3
b) Contribution of motivational techniques in increasing the effectiveness of team within BBC
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c) Contribution of improved level of motivation in attaining goals of BBC...............................6
a) Different types of teams and how they are important within BBC.........................................6
b) Methods utilized in making effective team in BBC................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
a) Process of improving team performances and productivity....................................................8
b) Main barriers to effective performance within BBC...............................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior can be simply defined as study of the way in which a person
interacts with another one in an enterprise having the motive of achieving some aims and targets.
Usually, it denotes the smooth way via which a venture is going to operate its business by
considering of micro as well as macro factors and its influences (Adeniji, A. A., 2011). In
addition to this, the working of firm is also impacted by culture, power and politics at greater
extent. Thus, it can be said that organizational behavior is the summary of both employees as
well as organization itself. The present report is based on the organizational behavior of BBC. In
this report, the effect of administrative culture, control and policies has been described in detail.
In addition to this, various theories of motivation such as process and content theories has also
been clarified so that the cited enterprise can adopt this and develop the motivational level in
their workers so that upgrade their whole performance.
TASK 1
a) Earlier organisational culture followed within BBC by using Handy's cultural typology
According to the Handy's model, the earlier culture followed by BBC is described below:
 Power culture: The power is provided to a small group of people or a single person
within the corporation. This culture is so advantageous as decisions are taken in very less
time due to the presence of power in few hands (Bissell and Dolan, 2012). In addition to
this discipline is also maintained here because workers present in lower level has to
follow the order of their supervisors. So, goals and objectives can be easily achieved by
adopting this tradition.
 Task culture: In this type of culture, groups or teams are formed in order to solve the
critical issues of venture. People work together for achieving a mutual goal and this is the
reason, work are performed with in given time frame efficiently.
 Person culture: Some of the firms follows person culture where employees feel
themselves as very important part of their company. Here venture takes a back seat and
ultimately suffers. People consider themselves superior than firms and only visit work
place of having the notion of earning money. They do not take their responsibility
seriously and this is the reason of facing losses by the corporation.
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 Role culture: This is the tradition where workers consist of some specific roles and
obligations as per their educational qualification, skills, expertness, talents, etc. In this
culture, personnel have the power to decide their roles that he or she can perform well
even by facing challenges (Braccini and Federici, 2013). Each and every employee are
responsible to his performance and should handle all the types of conflicts emerges at the
time of doing job.
Smith has done the investigation of BBC's culture and has observed so many serious fall
down in their organisational culture, its communication system and management. He stated that
BBC is not taking seriously even after listening the complaints of their workers. Furthermore,
they are also giving different pays or non-equivalent wages to their employees as they are doing
discrimination on the ground of gender. According to Handy's theory, such activities can only
occur in “persons culture “as here employers are not taking their duties seriously. Each and every
person is thinking about their profits and are considering themselves more superior than the
company. It can be said that BBC should follow “Task culture and Power culture” where power
is given in the hand of some workers so that discipline can be maintained and complainants of
personnel are taken seriously and should also be resolved by giving it more priority. BBC can
also engage themselves in forming team and doing their tasks by allocating to a particular team.
b) Influence of power, culture and politics on behavior of BBC
Culture is a collection of customs, principles, morals, rules and protocols which is followed by
society or team for achieving targets in specified time frame (Burrell and Morgan, 2017). Impact
of official culture on individual and team of BBC is described as follows:
 Behavior of each staff is prominently affected by regulation of management because
it shapes their working capability in diverse manner. For example, if a worker is
going to follow guidelines of enterprise in a given way then it spontaneously forced
them towards attaining spare income as well as protect an individual from any type
of punishment.
 Culture influence on performance of workforces by inspiring them toward their
private as well as professional aims without abusing any policy.
 Furthermore, it also polishes their endowment.
 Encourage them towards decency and politeness.
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