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Organisational Behaviour Concept

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ORGANISATIONALBEHAVIOUR
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3LO1..................................................................................................................................................3Influences of culture, power and politics on the behaviour of individual and team performance.....................................................................................................................................................3Evaluation of motivating individuals and teams to achieve goals..............................................6LO3..................................................................................................................................................8Understanding of co-operation effectively with others...............................................................8LO4................................................................................................................................................10Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour ..........................................................10CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviour is the study of understanding human resources and theirbehaviour in business environment. Organisations adapt to this study so that they can understandfactors which influences human behaviour and their performance. British BroadcastingCorporation(BBC) is an organisation providing services related to broadcasting. It broadcast invarious countries on radio, television and on internet. BBC sells its programmes to various othercompanies of broadcasting in world-wide. In this study report, influences of culture, power andpolitics on behaviour of individual and team performance is explained. Ways of motivatingindividuals to achieve organisational objectives are also discussed. Different types of teams andtheir importance is shown in the report. The report further explains concept and philosophies oforganisational behaviour.LO1Influences of culture, power and politics on the behaviour of individual and team performanceOrganisation's culture, power and politics greatly influences behaviour of employees andteam performance. BBC believes that creativity is the lifeblood of company and therefore it triesto establish creative ambition and attempt new things and also embrace advance technology. Influences of culture on individual behaviour and team performanceVarious culture adopted by organisation have various effects and influences onperformance of employees as everyone has different perception. Handy's typology explains fourtypes of culture are being followed by the organisation and it is explained as follows:Role culture: this culture basically follows rules and regulations provided by the organisation.Roles and responsibilities are distributed among employees according to their position and BBCfollows this culture to manage proper work flow.Task culture: organisation adapt to this culture in order to perform some specific or complextask. Task culture aims at completing task and roles are distributed among employee'saccordingly(Coccia, 2014). BBC adopting to task culture may brings negative behaviour fromemployees as management only focuses on completing the task and avoids employeescontribution and behaviour. Power culture: Authority and power remains with top management or higher authority oforganisation and they bring influences to performance and behaviour of employees. Top
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management may do favouritism with employees and neglect providing opportunities to capableone, this leads to creation of dissatisfaction among employee(Steers, 2016).Person culture: personal culture adopted by organisation aims at treating every individualemployees with uniqueness and respect, this makes them comfortable and satisfied towards job.But this culture makes employee dependent on leader and lacks innovation and effectiveness inbusiness activities. BBC aims at adopting to culture that motivates and encourages people and leads toachieve overall objectives(Kuhlman, 2015). Hofstede's cultural dimensions are adopted byorganisations which are explained as follows:Power distance: this dimension explains that employees with less power and authority assumesthat power is distributed unequally in the organisation. Individualism Vs. Collectivism: this dimension aims at questioning i9f people like to work inindividual or collectivism. Individualism refers to loose-knit framework and socialism relates totightly-knit framework. Uncertainty Avoidance: employees feel uncomfortable when treated with uncertainty andambiguity. Organisations with low uncertainty avoidance makes its employee happy andsatisfied towards job, whereas BBC failed to maintain and resulted in high employee turnover.Short-Term Vs. Long Term Orientation: lont-term orientation generally deals with virtue ofsociety and short-term orientation aims at having strong and great concern with truth. BBCfollows short-term orientation as truth is the foundation of BBC and they treat everyoneimpartially. Masculinity Vs. Femininity: this dimension refers to values which are considered essential insociety. Masculinity explains preferences such as heroism, material rewards and appraisal.Femininity explains preferences for modesty, cooperation, taking care of weak and also qualityof life. Influences of power on individual behaviour and team performanceThe power of individuals or top management of an organisation make great influences onindividual behaviours and also on their performance level(Hunter and et.al., 2018). According toFrench and Raven, there are five forms of power and described as following:
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