Organisational Behaviour Concepts and Philosophies
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ORGANISATIONALBEHAVIOUR
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................1Identify organisation’s culture, power and politics influence individual and team behaviourand performance. ...................................................................................................................1TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3Measure theories of motivation and motivational techniques change effective achievement ofgoals in 4com plc....................................................................................................................3TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6Justify what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..............................6TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational and a givenbusiness situation....................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12.......................................................................................................................................................15.......................................................................................................................................................16.......................................................................................................................................................17
INTRODUCTIONOrganizational behaviour is a type of management activity which is branch of socialscience that describes the act of people. It is concerned with understanding, controlling andpredicting the behaviour of people in a company. An entity focuses on motivating its employeesso that objectives of the organisation can be achieved. In this present report, 4com plc is chosenfor assessment. It is a medium sector telecommunication company founded by Dean Cartledge.Its turnover is about £ 20M to £ 30M. It provides its services in telecommunication sector in theUnited Kingdom. I this report will analyse influence of culture, politics and power on thebehaviour of others in 4com plc as well as this report will also evaluate importance of motivationin building team in company. Furthermore, content and process theory will also be discussed inthis report. TASK 1Identify organisation’s culture, power and politics influence individual and team behaviour andperformance. In every organization, power, culture and politics plays major role in knowing success andgrowth of the company (A. Agarwal, 2014). Management and leadership completely depends onthe power and politics. In every business, power has two majorly aspects, which can be used inpositive way to influence others or the same power can be used in negative way as well.Handy Model of organizational culture: Charles Handy has defined that a dominant group builds and determine the culture within anorganization, which may either decline or improve the work and performance of a company. Asper Handy, there are four types of culture in an organization: power, role, task and person.Power culture: This culture can be determined or said as a “web” which means powerand decisions are spread out like a network from the centre to rest of organisation.This cultureis adopted by 4com plc, where few people has only the rights to take decisions and powerremains in their hands (Fleming and Spicer, 2014). Employees of 4com plc has to strictly followtheir superior's guidelines. Workforce has no rights to share their thoughts and new ideas to themanagers of company and seniors can be partial to anybody as decision lies in their hands whichwill result in demotivating employees. Power culture has so many advantages and disadvantages:Advantages of power culture: 1
Fast decision making: If such culture is adopted by any company where decision lies inthe hands of few people, then decision can be taken fast because if more people areinvolved in decision making, everyone will have their own perception and that will delaythe decision making process.Few rules and little bureaucracy: If company follows this culture, than few rules arerequired to be followed and taken in to action.Disadvantages of power culture: Employees does not have the rights to express their views and thoughts in the company.People working in the organisation are strictly required to follow all the decisions of theirseniors which does not give job satisfaction to employees.Task culture: 4com plc follows this culture where all the problems related to anorganisation are solved by forming a team and assigning them problem and specific targets. Insuch a culture, a task is given to the team of specific people who shares same degree orknowledge. Every member of the team is required to contribute equally and a leader will beappointed to them who will look after the work of the team members. To follow such culture anorganisation must have these basic things:Company should believe in team working than only task culture can be adoptedPeople with common interest and have skills of leadership and working in a team willgive very positive results to the entity.Team must have their own goals and every member of the group should contributeequally to solve the problems. This culture is those of a matrix.In task culture employees and team members at 4com plc works collectively in order toattain common objective related with the task Person culture: In this culture, people consider themselves as better and superior to theorganisation. Such Companies exist so that people can learn work form there seniors. Here noemployee is devoted towards the entity, everyone comes for their own growth and learning. Inthis type of environment people just come for money and are not emotionally attached to it. Butevery employee should keep in mind that company comes first and every other thing such as2
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