Organisational Behaviour Assignment Solved - A David & Company Ltd
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Organisational Behaviour Assignment Solved - A David & Company Ltd
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1 Influence of organisation's politics, culture and power on team and individual performance.....................................................................................................................................................1TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3P2: How Content & Process theories of motivation helps in achieving organisational goals.. . .3TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5P3 Different teams and ways to make effective team.................................................................5TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7P4 Path goal theory and problems in effective performance......................................................7CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9.........................................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONOrganisation behaviour is the understanding, predictions and influencing respectiveactivitiesin the organisation. It is the study of individual’s and their performance in theorganisation. It refers to the surroundings or environment in which employees are working. Inthis report A David & Company Ltd. Which provides fresh fruits, vegetables, bakery items andexotic goods, etc. has been taken for study. How culture, power and politics affects employee’sbehaviour is all mentioned in this study with different models. Different motivational theories tomotivate employees and different ways to encourage them to perform effectively, are explained.Various teams and how they motivate individuals are discussed in thisreport. Further path goaltheory and its impact on employee’s behaviour and performance is all explained. Along withthis, problems or barriers which occurs in effective performance of employees are also discussedin this project.TASK 1P1 Influence of organisation's politics, culture and power on team and individual performancePower politics and culture plays important roles in the organisation. In little or largestructure, politics may impact positively or negatively with influences other at the workplace.Power is defined as a capacity of a superior to effect working behaviour of its employees forworking in a right way to achieve desired goals of the firm in systematic manner and in a giventime period. Therefore, power plays an important role which influences the working behaviourof staff members towards business firm(Braccini and Federici, 2013). Furthermore, managerstaking various decisions for enhancing performance of its workforce like assigning roles in thefirm, providing reward to them etc. David & co. has a skilled and effective management team sothat they can implement it positively for increasing the performance of employees at given task.David & co. use various types of powers, which are describes as follows:Coercive power : It defines the forced power which is used by managers and teamleaders to accomplish task. David & co. can't adopt this power because it will gave negativeimpact on their organisation because it increases the dissatisfaction in their employees which willreduce their performance during the work (Bissell and Dolan, 2012).Reward power : It defined as the value of work. This type of power is used by managersfor increasing motivation in employees so that they will work efficiently. In the context of David1
& co. their manager should implement this power which will increase loyalty of employeestowards organisation. Furthermore they have power to give them reward on the basis of theirperformance it will bring satisfaction in their staff members.Legitimate power : It refers to the power which is connected with a strong leadership. Inother words it can be used when position is left free. In David & co., Their CEO has such type ofpower to gave authority for controlling to the able persons in the organisation (Coccia andCadario, 2014).Referent power : It is the personal power of managers. In David & co. HR managershould adopt this power through gave it to leaders, so that, they can achieve maximum resultsfrom employees and make them loyal towards the organisation.Expert power : It is come after expertise in work or understanding of a specific field byworking in an organisation. In the context of David & co. their HR manager has such powerbecause they have a long time experience so they can implement this for smooth functioning ofthe team and organisation.Informational power – This power is given to the employees who understands theirliability towards the firm. In this type of power it is distributed to those who are able to accessthe concealed information and financial reports of an organisation. In David & co. manager andboard of directors has such power.Organisational culture : It is a set of activities with consisting mutual values, beliefsand assumptions which describes the behaviours of employees in an organisation. These valueshas a great impact on the employee's behaviours in the firm. Every company has a differentculture which defines the behaviour of staff members (Coccia, 2014.Dobrow, 2013.). In presentassignment Handy's topology of organisational culture is discussed below:Handy's typology of organisational culture – Such theory was invented by Charleshandy. In it, handy defines the organisation should follow a implemented culture with sharedbeliefs and assumptions that the David & co. limited can apply in future. This theory is dividedin four types they are as follows:Power culture : In this culture, power is distributed to specific peoples of an organisationfor performing decision making process. People have power to make quick decision without theinterference of other staff members. In David & co. limited they have few members who havethis type of power of controlling the workforce at workplace.2
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