Organisational Behaviour - A David & Co Assignment

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1 Influence of organisation's politics, culture and power influence individual and team
performance and behaviour .......................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P2 Process and Content theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effective
achievement of goals in A David & Co......................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Effective team as opposed to and ineffective team................................................................7
TASK 4 ...........................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concept and philosophies of organisational behaviour within situation...............................9

CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is a process which investigates the overall impact of individual
behaviour within an organisation (Ashenden and Sasse, 2013). It also study the internal and
external factors that affect productivity. This will benefit in defining roles and responsibilities for
employees and helps a manager to effectively influence behaviour of workers in formative
manner. Present case study has been conducted on A David & Co which is deals in food and
beverage industry and are engage in food whole selling business. Company mainly provide fresh
food, vegetables, dairy items and bakery products to consumers. In this project, overall influence
of an organisation culture on team as well as on individual performance has been mentioned.
Whereas, various theories like, process and content theory of motivations are included in this
report. Along with this, philosophies and concept on the context of organisation and various
concepts of team effectiveness are covered in this report.
P1 Influence of organisation's politics, culture and power influence individual and team
performance and behaviour
Organisational behaviour is a continuous study of human behaviour their attitude and
performance in an organisation. Main objectives of organisational behaviour are to develop
formative approach with the help of which performance level of employees can be maximised.
Organisational behaviour includes different types of factors such as power, politics and culture
which directly or indirectly affect behaviour of team and performance of an individual. In
relation with A David & Co their top management have implemented Handy culture in their
organisational working culture as to cope up with the effect of these factors. There are various
factors that affect functioning of an organisation which is mentioned below in descriptive
manner:
Organisational culture: Organisational culture consists of various set of assumptions, beliefs
and values with the help of which behaviour of an individual can be judged. In a culture of a
company there is a formative set of organisation values, system, norms and vision.
Organisational culture affects the way in which an individual and a group interact with company
clients and shareholders or an individual in an organisation. Culture mainly includes a company
norms, values, systems and vision. Organisational culture mainly impact upon the way in which
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