Organisational Behaviour of Individual and Teams
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1ACTIVITY 1 ...................................................................................................................................1Effective team v/s Ineffective team........................................................................................2Team Development Theories.................................................................................................4Concepts and Philosophies of Organisational Behaviour......................................................6Analysis and Evaluation of theories.......................................................................................7ACTIVITY 2 ...................................................................................................................................8Influence of Culture, politics and power on performance of individual and teams...............8Content and process theory of motivation and motivational technique...............................11Critical evaluation of application of behavioural motivational theories..............................13CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................14REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16.......................................................................................................................................................18
INTRODUCTION Organisational behaviour is basically the study of group and individual's performance andactivities within an organisation. It examines or evaluate human behaviour and culture in a workenvironment and analyse its effect on performance, job structure, communication, motivation,leadership, etc (Alenazi, Muenjohn and McMurray, 2019). Organisational behaviour is directlyconcerned with understanding and control of human behaviour which is necessary for timelycompletion of work and to achieve the targets. This assignment is divided two task where firsttask is based on IBM and second part is on Apple Inc. IBM (International Business Machines) isan American multinational technology company headquartered in New York and operating inmore than 170 countries of the world. This part of assignment includes an explanation abouteffective and ineffective team and for that purpose, use of team development models are made.Concept and philosophies of organisational behaviour are also included to improve performanceand productivity in IBM. Second task of this report is based on Apple Inc. which is a multinational technologycompany of U.S. headquartered in California. This part includes critical analysis of Apple'sculture, politics and power which is having its influence on behaviour and performance ofindividuals and teams. Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniquesare also included for effective achievements of goals of organisation.
ACTIVITY 1 Overview- International Business Machines (IBM) is a technology company having itsbusiness operations across the world. It basically provides cloud- based services, hardware,software and cognitive computing. This company is headquartered in Armonk, New York andalso known as 'Big Blue'. IBM is having a vision of becoming World's most successful andimportant information technology company. The main objective of IBM is to lead in the creation,development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technology includingcomputer systems, networking systems, software, storage device, etc. (Inside IBM, 2019).Team- A group of individuals working together for achieving a common goal or target isknown as team. It mainly consist of two or more members having some complementary skillsand generates synergy through properly coordinated efforts to maximize their strengths andreduce their weaknesses (Ashkanasy and Humphrey, 2011). IBM has grouped its employees intodifferent teams to utilise the benefit of combined skills and perspective of employees fromdifferent parts of organisation. There are many kinds of team like functional team, crossfunctional team, virtual team and self directed team. In this digital era role and importance ofvirtual teams are increasing as they are useful in reducing the cost and time of travel whichimproves productivity of firm. IBM is also having different types of teams and virtual teams arealso there to improve the productivity and interaction between employees. Use ofcommunication technology like email, Fax, video conferencing etc. is made by IBM fordiscussions and convey of messages between team members for achievement of common target.Virtual teams has reduced the geographical limitations through providing a better way ofinteraction but it also increased the chances of poor communication or coordination due to failureof technology. Effective team v/s Ineffective teamIn every organisation, there are some teams which are effective and leads to timelyachievement of goals while some teams are ineffective which lacks in performance thus, not ableto meet objectives on time (Ates and Bititci, 2011). Key features of both effective and ineffectiveteams are given below:Key features of Effective teamsFollowing are the key features which makes a group of people effective in achieving theirtargets on time:
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