Impact of Civilisation, Politics and Authority on Organisational Behaviour

Unit 12
Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
PART - 1...............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1. State the impact of civilisation, politics and authority on organisational behaviour....................3
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................7
P2. Suggest various theories to motivate individuals and teams for achieving goal..........................7
PART - 2...............................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................9
P3. Explain the participation of workers in team to co-operate with others.......................................9
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................12
P4. Discuss the philosophy of organisational behaviour at various situations.................................12
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................13
RECOMMENDATIONS.....................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
The management and leadership style adopted by an enterprise for encouraging workers to
perform task with eagerness and in effective manner is termed as organisational behaviour. The main
purpose of managers is to provide guidance for improvement in employees working style. The
organisation selected for this project is Apple as being an American multinational technological
company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. In this project, the custom, politics
and authority which impacts organisational behaviour have been stated. It further suggests various
theories to motivate individuals and teams for target achievement (Aydon and et.al., 2016). This
project, additionally explains the participation of workers in a team by co-operating with other
members. It further discusses the various philosophies of organisational behaviour at diverse
situations for developing stability of company.
PART - 1
TASK 1
P1. State the impact of civilisation, politics and authority on organisational behaviour
The organisation behaviour refers as managers directs and controls actions of workers by
enforcing them to develop good relations with each other to collaborate effectively. It develops
opportunity for individuals, teams and organisation to complete target at particular duration.
Managers of Apple focus on working style of employees by analysing their performance management
for identifying the task done with time consumption.
Apple:- The Apple is an multinational technological company that is located in California,
United States. It used to design, develop electronic gadgets for selling it to customers through online
services. This organisation was founded by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak at 1st April,
1976. The company have further expanded its business with 510 retail stores in 2020 with 137,000
numbers of employees in 2019. Its website is www.apple.com and ISIN is US0378331005 as well as
compete with rivalries that are Dell, Samsung, etc.
Civilisation of organisation:- It is described as culture of business to share values,
assumptions and beliefs of workers with one another that develops co-ordination and increase their
potential power to complete task on time (Carugati and et.al., 2018). This includes innovative ideas,
aggressive, outcome-oriented, team working, detail instruction, etc. Managers of Apple focus on this

for developing good environment among people as being inspired by leaders to perform their actions
in effective manner.
Organisational culture influence upon individual:- The managers of Apple are beneficial
as these organisational culture influence individuals by developing understanding to respect for one
another to motivate workers for performing their best actions towards business goals.
Organisational culture influence upon teamwork:- Apple managers further focus on
developing good teamwork that leads to collaborate with each other as an effective team to achieve
the specific target.
Handy Culture:- This model emphasize on power, role, task and person within an
organisation that are to be properly managed for achieving vision and mission. It was announced by
administrative consultant named Charles Handy as being known for the God of Management. The
managers of Apple implement this model as to analyse various rules for bureaucracy, decision-
making that leads to delegate roles and responsibility in accordance with capability of workers.
 The power:- Managers of an organisation have the power to monitor and control actions of
employees by taking harsh decisions for labour activities. Example:- Directors have the
authority of delegating roles and responsibility to workers and expecting from them to
complete in as per directions.
 The role:- It refers as the task allotted to one candidate has to be performed effectively that
leads company to attain success (Coetzer, Bussin and Geldenhuys, 2017).
 The task:- This is defined as goal or target of an individual or team that has to be
accomplished in certain period that results for stability of organisation. Example:- Marketing
managers of Apple allots target for sales person to 20 electronic gadgets in one month to its
customers.
 The person:- It is the capability of person to perform its task with specialisation that
eliminates errors which restricts delay in goal accomplishment.
Organisational Politics:- This is described as the process through which managers of an
organisation directs and guides workers to complete their task in particular scenario by developing
their skills and knowledge.