Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation, Teams and Philosophies

Organisational
Behavioural

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
Analyse how an organisation's culture, politics and power can influence individual and team
behaviour and performance....................................................................................................1
Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organisation ................................................................2
Content theory........................................................................................................................2
Process theory.........................................................................................................................3
Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team ............................4
Apply concept and philosophies of OB within an organisational context.............................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of human behaviour related to other elements of a
concern such as structure, technology and social system. It involves description, understanding,
prediction and controlling of human behaviour where people interact within groups. It helps in
improving the job performance, increase job contentment, promotes creativity and support
leadership(Balwant, 2018) In this report, Google is taken into consideration which is
multinational technology company which specialises in internet-related services and products.
The report will cover the culture, politics and power of an organisation that have a great
influence in team members or an individual. Further, it will discuss the theories of motivation
and techniques that enables a business concern in achieving the goals. In addition to this, it will
state the difference between effective and ineffective teams, and also discuss the concept and
philosophies of the organisation behaviour.
Analyse how an organisation's culture, politics and power can influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
The organisational behaviour provide an insight how an employee behave and perform
his work at the workplace. It help in understanding how to motivate employees to increase their
performance level to get the goal s of a business concern. Whereas organisational culture is the
collection of the values, expectations, experiences and philosophies where people develop or
maintain similar customs, belief and attitudes in an organisation(Xiao and Cooke, 2019). With
reference to Google, Power and politics is the capability of an person to influence the action,
belief, conduct and behaviour of other team members. It is very crucial for organisational
behaviour actions of individual or groups whose description is given below:
Individual
A person in an organisation use his power to satisfy the common basic needs and provide
base to the individual in a company. An individual makes an attempt to win the scarce resources
so that they engage in the behaviour such bargaining, negotiation, alliance building and resolving
conflicts. When they involve in politics so they are bound to make mistakes and also take interest
in spoiling other person's image in front of superiors and spend their time in criticising their
fellow workers. It leads to negative environment at the workplace and as a result the employees
are not able to achieve to get the goal in stipulated time period. The politics increase the level of
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stress among the employees and they have to work more then the fixed hours of working. They
also get demotivated when they are not rewarded properly and the person who has not work hard
gets the reward.
Team members
A business concern use its power and politic to control the members or employees for
attaining the goal of an organisation. It influence the process of a team and leadership in an
organisation which may be unethical and destructive(Ferris and et. al., 2019). It uses it personal
tactics to fulfil the interest of a business by achieving the goal of a organisation. The team
members are not allowed to give their hundred percent result because of their loss of interest in
work. The whole team is not able to concentrate on the work and the responsibilities that are
assigned to them. The members who are involved in politics manipulate the information and
never disseminate in the appropriate form.
Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organisation
Motivational theories are the concepts that drive a person and force to work towards the
goal of an organisation. It is the energy that force an individual to work hard to get something so
there are various theories that has been made to motivate the employees because motivated
employees are more productive and profitable to a company. In context to Google, content and
process theories are described as under:
Content theory
This theory explains what people need in their lives by understanding their wants and
how they can be motivated. So here is the theory of motivation which are depicted below:
Maslaw hierarchy needs: This theory was introduced by Abraham Maslaw which states
that how people are motivated to fulfil their basic needs(Dasaev, 2018). He has defined basic
needs that he believed to be very important to motivate them which are as under:
 Psychological needs: These are the very basic need of an individual which are necessary
for the survival such as air, food, water sleep etc. if these need are not met then the person
is motivated to fulfil these need before moving to other needs.
 Safety needs: when the psychological needs are accomplished then safety needs arises
where people want to live at the safer place. These needs include safety of health or
wellness, financial security, safety against accident or injuries etc.
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