Organisational Behaviour Management: Theories of Motivation and Leadership

MG414 Organisational
Behaviour

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Organisational behaviour management is responsible for the application of behavioural
principles to the individuals in a business environment, industry settings. OBM can be termed as
an interaction between the behavioural sciences and organisational behaviour improvement. The
below report gives an overview regarding the organisational behavioural management and the
two theories of management which particularly define the concept of OBM. The report
summarises upon the the behavioural theories buy assisting them with a questionnaire t provide
for the research findings for the theories in relation to the organisation. The recommendations
necessary for the organisation are also given to assess and determine that the optimum utilisation
of human resources is done for generating an efficient output and results.

Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
Contents...........................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TOPIC 1...........................................................................................................................................4
Motivation:..................................................................................................................................4
TOPIC 2...........................................................................................................................................6
Leadership:..................................................................................................................................6
PRIMARY RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION...........................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
RECOMMENDATIONS...............................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of how people have interactions among groups in
an organisational setting. It is he study of human behaviours in an organisational setup to
understand the interface between the human behaviour and the organisation in itself (Arslan and
Roudaki, 2018). In this report, two theories of organisational behaviour management are
discussed to provide an overview of how individuals behave in an organisation based on
different management theories. It also explains how different organisational cultures affect the
behaviour of human resource in the organisation. This report also has primary research and
findings relating to the theories of organisational behaviours as motivation and leadership which
is presented in the form of a questionnaire which helps the organisation to understand the
theories and the employee’s behaviour at the workplace in a better manner.
TOPIC 1
Motivation:
Motivation is referred to as the interior force which affects action, magnitude and
endurance of a person’s intentional choice of behaviour. It comprises of direction which is
centred by the goals, intensity which is expressed by the bulk of efforts that are allocated and
persistence which gives the amount of time that is required for the efforts to be applied.
Motivation as an activity assists to initiate, guide and maintain the goal oriented behaviour in an
organisation. It is the factor which causes an individual to act around a situation and involves the
various forces such as biological, emotional, social and cognitive forces which activate an
individual’s behaviour (Sethi, 2019).
Motivation in an organizational behaviour generates willingness in the employees and
encourages the employees to optimally utilise their abilities. It is the state of mind which
inculcates an employee to act towards achieving their objectives and goals for the organisation.
There are various motivation theories in the organisational behaviour which influences the
performances of the employees and individuals in the organisation. The theories are as follows:
1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: This motivational theory proposes the idea of hierarchy
of needs which is a theory of human motivation. It states that there are five categories of
needs that human have which defines their behaviour in a particular situation (Bakeer,
Nassar and Sweelam, 2022). Starting from the bottom, the needs are as follows: