Organisational Behaviour Assignment : 4Com PLC

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance............................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effective
achievement of goals..............................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.............................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context
and a given business situation................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is defined as a study of 'human behaviour' in a company setting,
thus, it can refer to an interface between behaviour of humans and an organisation itself (Ates
and Bititci, 2011). Moreover, it is an organisational behaviour i.e. categorised into three
categories including individual in a company (micro-level), work groups (meso-level) and lastly
how a firm behave (macro-level). 4Com plc is undertaken in this assignment and working for
providing better communication service in United Kingdom. Present report will include
influence of culture, politics and power within an organisation. Other than this, methods for
motivating employees and teams in obtaining goals and technology is mentioned in this report.
In addition to this, understanding of processes is being done through which employees can
effectively cooperate with other in order to perform a task. Lastly, concepts and philosophies of
organisational behaviour according to given business situations is mentioned in this assignment.
TASK 1
P1 Organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance
Organisational behaviour is determined as a study of evaluating how an individual or a
group behave in a company. Therefore, to maintain a better relation amongst workers and
subordinates, manager and superiors opt organisational behaviour within an organisation (Avey,
Palanski and Walumbwa, 2011). Every enterprise has its own culture which depends upon size
and shape of a company. These culture provides comfort to workers that enable them in
obtaining set goals and targets in a given time frame. Other than this, managers and superiors
play an important role in an enterprise who allocate roles and responsibilities by determining
skills and knowledge to an individual. Behaviour of individual, team and organisation is
influenced by numerous factors including culture, politics and power which is explained below:
Culture: In context with organisation, culture is defined as values, norms and beliefs
which are practised in a company (Baker-Shelley, van Zeijl-Rozema and Martens, 2017). Main
purpose of this is to bring stability and control within a firm. In addition to this, culture which is
presented in an organisation helps in resolving issues and differences that can create problem in
business operations. In relation with 4Com PLC, company is having around 300 staff members
who are performing their task for giving firm competitive advancement. Therefore, 4Com PLC is
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