Organizational Behaviour: Analysis of Google's Culture, Power, Politics, and Motivation Theories

Organizational behaviour

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART-1............................................................................................................................................3
Overview of the organization......................................................................................................3
Analyses of organization culture, politics and power.................................................................3
Presenting theories and techniques of motivation in context of google......................................5
Reflection....................................................................................................................................6
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8
Difference between effective and ineffective team.....................................................................8
Applying the concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour........................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION.
The study of organizational behaviour helps the firm in analysing how people interact
within different groups at specific places. The present report is based on Google that is
multinational technology company that is specialized in the providing the internet related
services to large number of people all over the world. Further, the report will analyse the
influence of culture, power and politics on the organization along with certain theories of
motivation that influence the individual performance and behaviour at the workplace. Moreover,
the study will identify the difference between effective and ineffective team and will also analyse
the importance of relevant team through using various theories. Lastly, various concepts of
organizational behaviour in particular situation will also be discussed in detail.
MAIN BODY.
PART-1
Overview of the organization.
Google is the multinational American company that is specialized in providing various
products and services that includes online advertising, internet related services and much more .
It allows the user to search information on variety of areas so that data could be gathered in the
most efficient manner without many efforts (Fenwick, 2021). Apart from the data there are
several google owned websites such as you tube and blogger that is most popular among the
people across the globe. Other than these other services other most popular are google video,
gmail, books, earth, apps and chrome, google+ etc. Moreover, the company is active in
connecting large number of diverse groups at one place through offering those specialized
services that are not available on one single platform. Further, it is seen that google has
introduced various facilities that are according to the current digital innovation in the country.
Along with this it also known for providing best of facilities to the employees so that better work
culture and environment could be developed.

Analyses of organization culture, politics and power.
The organization culture is the mixture of various elements that are available at any firm
that provide certain guidelines through which the work could be carried out in most effective
manner. Further it can be described in well-defined manner through below contents that are as
follows :
Power : It is defined as control, authority and influence over certain group of people
through which the individual has the capacity to change certain ideas and thoughts. Moreover, it
is very important that power is exercised in the right manner so that work can be carried out in
smooth manner (Gillam and Cosford, 2021). Also, the right amount of power gives the direction
to all other employees at the workplace so that productivity could be maintained. Further, this
element could be linked to Raven and French model that has described the power on the basis
of 5 aspects such as reward, expert, referent, coercive and informational. Based on this it can be
said that one that would be best for the google would be reward power that would allow people
to work in the best manner if found that some benefits or rewards are associated with
accomplishment of certain tasks. Also, under this the individual is influenced by observing other
people achievements when praised for carrying out the extraordinary work. Thus, here people are
able to follow the rules that are laid by the employers and allows them to follow the instruction.
For example: The individual is able to work in bests manner if he/she is promoted, given bonuses
or praised in large groups through any prizes or gifts that would help to accomplish certain tasks.
Culture: It is defined through the environment that allows the people to work in certain
conditions. Also, it defines the way for other to live the life that is generally accepted by other
people in societies (Taylor, 2018). It includes social norms, religious beliefs, traditions, social
standards etc. that is followed by certain group of people. Also, google company follows the
culture of openness among the workers so that innovation and creativity could be enhanced even
while working in the diverse groups. Further, this concept could be linked to Charles handy
culture that include elements like power, task culture, person culture and role culture. Also, for
google it can be said that the best suited would be role culture where each employee is
delegated some kind of role and responsibilities according to their field of specialization so that
best of outcomes could be achieved in specific time period (Odor, 2018). Further, position is the
main element in this as people hold power according to the position that they are being placed in.
For instance : The big UK retail banks are deriving power from the positional authority that