Organisational Behaviour & Culture in BBC

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Impact of power, culture and politics on behaviour of an organisation............................1
a) Handy's cultural typology for identifying the culture in BBC...........................................1
b) Analysis of power, culture and politics and its impact on BBC........................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluation of content and process theories of motivation................................................4
a)Definition of content and process theories..........................................................................4
b) Evaluation of motivational techniques in improving the effectiveness in BBC................6
c) Role of motivation in achievement of organisational objectives.......................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Features of an Effective team against ineffective one.......................................................7
a) Different types of teams ....................................................................................................7
b) Elements that make a team effective..................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Application of concept and philosophies of organisational behaviour on business situation9
a) Application of path-goal theory to improve team performance.........................................9
b) Barriers to team performance.............................................................................................9
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
An organisation cannot achieve its success without contribution of human resources.
Workplace of a company consists a large number of people who have different perception,
values and opinion based on culture they are belong to. But all are work with common purpose
i.e. to achieve objectives of enterprises. In context with organisational behaviour, it is defined as
how people associated with industries interact with each other and cooperate in completing the
various tasks within in a given period of time (Demir, 2011). Therefore, if employees and
management behave in a positive way then such firms have attain targets in a successful manner.
In this context, present report discuss about how management helps enterprises in managing the
relation among employees and increase their productivity. Managers use various application of
scientific and leadership theories for improving the behaviour of workers. For understanding all
these concepts, BBC Company has been taken in this assignment. It is a multinational firm of
UK deals in broadcasting business.
TASK 1
P1 Impact of power, culture and politics on behaviour of an organisation
a) Handy's cultural typology for identifying the culture in BBC
In a company, all people at individual basis greatly influenced by the culture, politics and
power within a firm. For understanding this concept deeply, Handy's cultural typology has been
used. This typology has stated that culture is a set of ideas and behaviour of people who are
associated with firm (Fisher and To, 2012). This theory was proposed by Charles Handy who has
classified culture into 4 major components that are discussed below:-
Power culture: This concept shows the most important part of organisation which impact
on behaviour and relationship of employees either in positive or negative ways. In this context,
power refers as an authority used to get productivity of workers i.e. it influences the people to
work accordingly as per order of centralised person. These persons have power to organise and
control the work of others as well as take the liberty to express opinion and make decision. Apart
from this, whatever strategies they made has to follow by others.
Task culture: In this typology, authorisers used to build strong teams and assigned tasks
accordingly in order to achieve success of business in high manner. They adopt various theories
in order to develop team and engage people to work with each other. Since BBC has large
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