Organisational Behaviour.

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 How an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
and performance.....................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2 How content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is considered as the application and study of information about
the way people react and interact within an organisation. This is executed widely to the
individual behaviour in all sort of company. Evaluation of organisation behaviour assists in
management of employee and maximise the team and individual work outcome. 4Com is
undertaken in this report as it is small telecommunication service provider founded in 1998 in
UK that deals with businesses and user both (Wood and et. al, 2012). The services and products
of company include digital handsets, telephony integration, call reporting and management,
phone system, broadband services etc. Under this report, influence of power, culture and politics
on team and individual’s performance and behaviour will be studied. This will assess how to
stimulate teams and individuals to accomplish the goals within 4Com. This assignment will also
apply several distinct philosophies and models of organisational behaviour to understand the
basic aspects of this.
TASK 1
P1 How an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
and performance
A company is highly influenced by its power, politics and culture as these shapes the
behaviour, operations and practices operated by organisation. The effective administration of
personnel is acknowledged as crucial determinants in creating sustainable competitive edge
within 4Com. These factors include culture, politics and power that impact on the behaviours in
numerous ways which is mentioned as below:Impact on Organisational Culture
A culture shapes the innovation, products, structure and operations of organisation in
numerous manners (Robbins and et. al., 2013). Culture impact on individual and organisation is
direct manner if an employee has different culture that impact on business and an individual. In
order to understand the culture’s influence, Handy’s typology is an effective method that can be
optimised which is elaborated below:
Handy’s Typology: Charles Handy defined culture in four distinct kinds i.e. role, person,
power and task.
 Power Culture: Under this, few essential individuals of organisation held company’s
power that has influence on firm. If 4Com apply this culture then their employees is
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being judged on the basis of achievement. Hence, this creates quick decision making
of organisation even though the judgement is not beneficial for organisation for its
longer interest.
 Role Culture: Under this, culture relies on rules and is controlled by each and every
individual who understand the duties. If 4Com comply this, role culture is determined
via an individual’s role and responsibility in the structure of organisation. In context
of this, the decision making of organisation will be slower in this culture as risk is
tried to be reduced at its best in this.
 Person Culture: Under this, Business manager treat employees as an essential and
main assets of the company(Schnurr and Chan, 2011). Such companies exist for some
people to work. In this type of culture, individual happen to perform in the same
organisation in order to achieve same purpose.
 Task Culture: This culture is develop for which teams are constructed to specifically
aiming at certain projects and problems. This is an essential elements that extent the
power of team on the basis of problem statement and team members. Effectiveness of
task culture is determined through team dynamics which can be followed by 4Com in
order to meet creative outcome.
4Com follow the task culture procedure as the organisation is able to achieve its business
objectives within the limited period of time. This culture have great influence on the team
working of company as this mainly concentrate on the completion of task within determined
period of time. On the other hand, individuals become more efficient in the company due to the
task-orientated behaviour but this sometimes restrain the innovation and creative methods of
working. Although, 4Com has been benefited from task culture as this promote more
productivity and profit to company.IMPACT OF ORGANISATIONAL POWER
Power influences functioning of organisation entirely by impacting on individual and
team working of a company. As 4Com follow the task culture, the power of teams and
organisation is held by their leaders who are accountable for managing their work within the
limited resources. Having a combination of less powerful and powerful people in a group, or
having entirely composed powerful team, both can create negative impact on the performance. It
is inevitable that more powerful people are less effective in performing the task and but are
needed for better work performance. 4Com acquire their power in expertise form and comply
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