Organisational Behaviour Concepts & Philosophies

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1 Organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour ..........1
P2 Process and content theories of motivation and motivational techniques for effective
achievement of goals...................................................................................................................3
P3 Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..................................................................5
P4 Concepts and Philosophies of organisational behaviour , suggesting how team
performance and productivity could be improved within ZARA...............................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour is a systematic study of human behaviour in an organisation. It is
mainly a scientific approach that is essential for every company to implement in their culture.
This is a systematic approach that aims towards organisational goals and objectives.
Organisational behaviour deals in interactions of humans in workplace. In this report, chosen
organisation here is ZARA which is a retailer based company mainly deals in clothing sector.
This companies provides their services worldwide with more than 7,475 stores. In this report
discussions have been made on organisation's culture, power and politics that influence on team
behaviour and performance. Content and process theories of motivation has also been examined
in this report. Various concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour in a organisation
are also evaluated in this project (Coccia 2014. ).
P1 Organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour
Organisation is a common platform where people form different culture and backgrounds
accumulate together to work towards common objectives and goals. There are various factors
that affects functioning of organisation. Some of these factors are briefly described below:
Organisational Culture:
Handy's Model of Organisational Culture: Organisational culture defines as an beliefs and
systematic principles of organisation. Certain culture that is follow by any organisation has deep
impact on their employees and on their relationships (Coccia 2014). Different types of
organisation have different kinds of culture prevailing in their workplace. Therefore , it is
necessary for employees to understand that culture and adjust well to deliver remarkable job
performance. There are various kinds of culture that are examined below with the help of
Handy's model:
Handy's Model of Organisation culture
According to this model, there are four types of culture in a company:
Power Culture: In this culture, power lays with only few individuals whose institutions
have to be followed by employees in a workplace. Individuals who have power with them
delegate work to their subordinates. Managers who work in this type of culture environment may
become little partial to some workers.
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Task Culture: In this type of environment, organisations who involves in creating teams
in order to achieve pre-determined goals and targets of company take help of problem solving
techniques to attain those targets. In this, required resources are accumulated in the hands of
right person for the completion of any particular task. It benefit company to increase their
productivity and fulfils their targets in effective time frame (Dobrow 2013.).
Person Culture:In this type of culture employees those who are working in a company
consider themselves as more important than company. In this people mainly focus on
accomplishing their own objectives rather than targets and objectives of organisations. In this
types of culture, employees only work for money they do have any kind of loyalty towards
company.
Role Culture: There are different types of people working in a organisation who have
various kinds of roles, responsibilities and skills. Employees are having their own interests and
specialisation. This will benefit them to perform a task with extra effectiveness. They will start
adopting various risk and challenges. In this employees are only responsible for their roles and
responsibilities.
In relation with ZARA, company have implemented corporate culture where different
types of authorities and responsibilities are defined to each and every individual. Company Top
management have adopted various techniques to formulate effective communication system in
their organisation. It is essential for company to implement various strategies for better
management of resources which is one of the essential element in human resource. Managers of
ZARA can implement Role culture as it will benefit them to assign systematic and proper roles
and responsibilities to every individual according to their skills and knowledge. Earlier there
was some incidents which hampered growth of this company so in order to overcome that
organisation have changed their cultural environment which will aid workers to communicate
easily relating to issues. With the help of effective cultural environment organisation have also
raised their values for example, they put more focus on consumer satisfaction, in addition to this
they have also implemented advanced digital technology in their workplace (Mester 2018).
Organisational Power
In any organisation, power plays an essential role as it helps to increase or decrease motivation
among workers. There are five types of power introduced by John French Bertram Raven firmly
examined below:
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