Organisational Behaviour Assignment : Amazon
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ORGANISATIONALBEHAVIOUR
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK1 ..........................................................................................................................................3P1. Organisational power, culture and politics influences the individual and teamperformances...............................................................................................................................3TASK2 ..........................................................................................................................................6P2. Content and process theories of motivation..........................................................................6TASK3 ..........................................................................................................................................8P3. Effective team as an opposed to an ineffective team. .........................................................8TASK4...........................................................................................................................................11P4. Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour...........................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour is the process of examining the behaviour of human beings andtheir relationship with the organisation. Therefore, it has direct relation with the understanding,predicting and controlling the behaviour of human beings. Organisation undertaken in this reportis Amazon which has initiated its business from 1994 and deals in cloud computing, e commerceand many other digital and software related industries. This report will concentrate on theinfluence of the culture, politics and power o the behaviour of others in an organisationalcontext. This will develop various measures in order to develop motivation in individuals andteams and various goals in order to accomplish them. It will also demonstrate and understandingof the manner in which the individuals need to cooperate with others. The last part of the reportwill concentrate on applying concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour in order toaccomplish business goals and objectives.TASK1 P1. Organisational power, culture and politics influences the individual and team performances.Organisational culture is concerned with the core philosophy, assumption, standards andconduct of exchanges which contributes to the distinctive social and physiological atmosphere ofan organisation. The success of the business enterprise is largely dependent upon the culture ofthe organisation. Good and effective culture creates a roadmap for accomplishing business goalsand objectives whereas bad culture can adversely affect the company and leads to poorperformances and attitudes of the team and individuals. Therefore, the culture of the Amazon will have a strong influence on the team andindividuals. This is because the good culture has a strong emphasis on communication which isvery important in present business scenario. It helps in making clear individuals and teams withthe respective goals and vision of the company so that they work in accordance with it. Theorganisational culture can further be understood by using Handy’s culture model.Handy’s culture modelCharles Handy has developed the culture model in the year 1932 which depicted the fourdifferent types of culture which must essentially be used by the organisations. Power culture: This type of organisational culture is concerned with the belief that underthis, the power of taking decisions and other important elements remains with the few
individuals working in the organisation and not every member can take decision. Theseindividuals are generally of senior position in an Amazon and enjoys a credibleprivileges. In such culture, the co workers and supervisors have to follow the order of thesuperiors and performs the actions accordingly. Apart from this, the organisations whoadopts this culture will have the capability to rapidly adopt the contingent events of thebusiness atmosphere.Task culture: This type of culture is concerned with when different types of teams arebuild to accomplish the desired objectives or tasks of the company. In this, individualsand other experts works together in order to accomplish business goals and objectives bysolving the reliable problems. Apart from this, every team member works with their bestlevel and have equal contribution in order to achieve the targets. The primary motive ofthis culture in an Amazon is to accomplish business motives by getting the work done asper the requirements. Person culture: Under this type of culture, the importance and value is given to theemployees rather than organisation. In this, the employees gives themselves mostimportance and they do their work only for the purpose of getting money, they have noother interest or attachment with the work. Role culture: Under this type of culture, each and every member working in theorganisation has certain type of roles and responsibilities which are assigned to them bytaking into consideration their skills, qualifications and capabilities of performing thework. Power is the ability of the individuals and teams in order to perform the actions such thatthey can meet with the business goals and objectives. In other words, it is related to the power ofinfluencing others in order to do something. These powers are of different types which can bepracticed in the Amazon in order to accomplish business goals. The following are the varioustypes of power discussed below:Coercive power: This power is related to the forceful actions in which the individual orteam is forced to do something. Under this, the idea or purpose is to force people and letthem do something which they are not favouring to do by letting them go against theirpotential. This type of power is abusive in nature and can leads to improper anddissatisfaction working atmosphere.
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