Organisational Behaviour And Concepts

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Analyse of organisation's culture, politics and power influence individuals and team
behaviour and performance..........................................................................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluation of the process theories & motivational techniques enable effective achievement
of goals of an organisation...........................................................................................................4
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................5
P3 What makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.........................................5
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................7
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context....7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour can be defined as the study of human behaviour and their
activities in an organization. This present study is based on the Google company. Google is an
American multinational technology company that offers various services as it specializes in
internet related services. This study will show about different types of culture, politics and
power. Culture which is being followed by the Google company has various characteristics
including openness, innovation. All these characteristics of organisational culture help them in
motivating and improving employees performance level. With the help of motivational theories
this company motivate their employees in a right direction with the main aim of achieving their
vision and objectives (Chumg and et.al., 2016). Further this report will show about the
importance of team working that make employees more effective and also improve their
interpersonal relationship. Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviours of an
organisation that helps them in influencing employees in a positive and in a negative manner.
LO 1
P1 Analyse of organisation's culture, politics and power influence individuals and team
behaviour and performance
Google is an American multinational technology company that is specialize and famous
for its internet related services & products. It provides and offers various services to people such
as search engine, advertising technologies, software & hardware, cloud computing etc. This
company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the year of 1998. Headquarter of this
company is in 1600 Amphitheatre parkway, Mountain view, California, U.S. It has around
98,771 employees around the world. The vision of Google company is to provide access to the
world's information in 1 click only and its corporate mission is to make its world's informations
universally accessible & useful for people. It is also analysed that its vision and mission
statement helps it as it make this company able to make the powerful position in the global
market (Kitchin, 2017).
Organizational culture can be defined as the philosophies, values and attitudes that
contribute to the unique social and physiological environment of a company (Elsmore, 2017).
Organisation politics refers a variety of activities that is associated with the use of
influences tactics that are being used to improve organizational interest.
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Types of organisational culture and its impact on people
There are various types of culture which many companies follow according to their size
and strategies such as hierarchy culture, market culture, adhocracy, clan and corporate culture.
Among all these type of culture Google company follows corporate culture which refers to the
customs, behaviours and traditions that highly influence their employees behaviours in a positive
manner (Lam and Xu, 2018). It is analysed that its corporate culture makes it able to maintain its
competitiveness against its competitors such as Microsoft, apple, Amazon.com etc. Its cultures
has various characteristics such as innovation, openness, hands-on approach and excellence. Its
openness characteristics is beneficial for employees as well as employer as it give an opportunity
to employees to share their views and informations in order to motivate its employees to interact
withy each other and improve performance level. It has various impacts on performance of
employees such as it increases their job satisfaction and make them innovative.
According to the Charles Handy's cultural model it is analysed that there are mainly 4
types of culture such as task culture, person culture, role culture and power culture.
Power culture: In this type of culture the power is remained in the hand of only few
people, all employees are not give the right of taking participation in any type of decision-
making process. People who have authority of taking decisions, they delegate responsibilities to
other employees. Employees do not have flexibility and liberty to share their opinions and views.
Role culture: In this type of culture of Herzberg’s model, roles are delegated to
employees on the basis of their skills and specialization.
Task culture: In this type of culture, manager of the company focus on making an
effective team with the main aim of achieving their determined team goals. The minimum
numbers of members in a team is 4-5 which contributes equally and focus on working
productively and effectively.
Person culture: There are several organizations where workers feel that they are very
important aspect and being respected by their manager. In this type of organizational culture,
employees and individuals are more concerned with about their own self rather than the
company. Employees just come to the company for earning money and not for making
relationship and never get attached to their employees and the company.
Google company focus on role culture as they give more priority to their employees ability and
their roles. Employer of Google company delegate roles to employees on the basis of their
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