Organisational Behaviour Assignment - Unilever

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Ways in which culture, power and politics affect the behaviour and Performance..........1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Methods to motivate individual and group of employees.................................................4
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P3 Demonstration on Effective Team as compared to Ineffective Team.............................10
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................12
P4 Concepts and philosophies of Organisational Behaviour...............................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Behaviour of an organisation and people who are working in it reflects equal importance.
In order to get proper attitude of human resource in a company, its employers need to provide
good working environment as well as equality to them. This process will be helpful in achieving
business objectives and goals in a limited period of time. In context with organisational
behaviour, it reflects the impact of an individual, employees and employers have within the
company. Further, this concept shows how persons within an enterprise interact with each other.
Positive behaviour of individuals is beneficial for getting better organisational culture which
assist superiors to get higher productivity of them as well (Fagbohungbe, Akinbode and Ayodeji,
2012). Along with this, study of behaviour of firm is useful for management of a company in
order to manage people by applying appropriate scientific approach. In order to measure
behavioural pattern of an organisation, a company like Unilever has taken in this report. It is a
retailer firm of UK whose business is based on consumer goods organisation including products
like food and beverages, some household goods like cleaning agents, personal care commodities
etc. Its HRM uses several approaches in order to get positive attitude of workers. Along with
this, it is also discussed in report about how culture of company and its policies are affected by
behaviour of human resource.
TASK 1
P1 Ways in which culture, power and politics affect the behaviour and Performance
An organisation is a place which consists many people in a structured way in order to
meet a certain goals and objectives. All enterprises whether dealing in retail, manufacturing or
constructing business have own management structure which determines the relationship among
various activities done by people according to their roles and responsibilities. In context with
behavioural patterns, it defines as the way of people interacts with each other which creates great
impact on working environment as well as performance of organisation. Therefore, in order to
get positive attitude of every individual management of a company like Unilever has to provide
proper training to them. It includes induction training program also which is helpful for
employees to understand their roles and responsibilities along with values of business objectives
in an appropriate manner (West and Lyubovnikova, 2013). Further, some portion of a company
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