Organisational Behaviour - British Broadcast Corporation
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Organisational Behaviour - British Broadcast Corporation
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1. Influence of organisation’s politics, culture and power on team and individualperformance............................................................................................................................1TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3P2 Motivational theories for achieving organizational goals.................................................3TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................7P3 Different types of team within BBC and its importance...................................................7TASK 4 ........................................................................................................................................10P4 Philosophies and concepts of organisational behaviour..................................................10CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13
INTRODUCTIONOrganisational behaviours, is study of the human behaviours within groups. It isconsidered as an efforts and attempt to determine how the performances of employees getaffected while performing in a group or an individual.Basically organisation behaviour's helpsto maximise the output from individual group members. It affects the overall performance ofbusiness organisation thus it is compulsory for management to bring transparency in the processof communication. The present report is based on Organisational Behaviour of “BritishBroadcast Corporation” The particular project talks about the power and political behavioursof managers in BBC. As apart from this, various motivational theories that an organisation adoptto motivate its employees. Beside this other concept of OB that can be applied by theorganisations are also explained under this report (Riivari and et. al., 2012).TASK 1P1. Influence of organisation’s politics, culture and power on team and individual performanceOrganisational culture-It is the culture which is followed by the company and it is based on certain values,assumptions, policies and customs which are followed and developed by the organisation on timeto time. Earlier there were many issues in BBC like harassment of staff, differences in pay scaleand gender. With the appointment of new director general all issues are related to the employeesare solved because he changes the organisational culture and policies related to pay scale andgender. Handy’ theory of organisational Culture has divided into four parts which are follows- Power culture -All powers are vested in the top level of management of the organisation and top level. InBBC all power was vested in the management and management was not doing justice with itsstaff. After the appointed of new director general all issues has been solved because he changedthe culture and listening the problems of staff .Role culture -In this type of culture role is predefined to the staff of the organisation so chances ofcreativity is less in this type of organisational role culture. Staff of BBC has to follow the rolesas given to him by the company and they can not do other things as per their choice. Role is1
decided according to the designation of a person in the company so decision making is slow inthis type of culture (Atkinson and Hall, 2011)Task culture -In this type of culture groups are made to solve a specific problems and groups are madeaccording to the strength of members in the team. Team leader of the group usually take decisionand other group members have to follow it. Team leader of group motivate the other persons inthe group for a particular task. Other members of the group can give advise to the team leader. InBBC team leader of group take decision for a particular task and other team mates have to followit and they can not take decision for a task and staffs are abide by the rules which were made theby BBC.Person culture - This type of culture is followed in many organisations where person has focused only inits own work. They do not give values to team projects or team goals. BBC was also doing samebecause they do not think about its staff and they do work as per their own suitability.Power and political behaviour of managers-French and Raven’s power has consist of following things such as-Legitimate power-It is that power which comes in a person with its position or designation and its givepower and rights to that person to perform a task and he expect the same from the other persons.BBC has all power n rights which was vested in its top managements.Reward power-This power describes that a reward has given to its employee for their good performanceand reward can be anything like – monetary incentive, promotion etc. BBC differentiate it on thebasis of pay scale and gender in their organisation.Coercive power- This power gives right to the person that he can punish or impose penalty to otherperson .This power is vested in the top management of the company. BBC have done bullyingand harassment of its staff. Expert power- This power is based on the experience, knowledge and skills of a person. New directorgeneral has this power in BBC.2
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