Organisational Behaviour of A David & Co ltd

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Analyse of organisation culture, politics and power influences individual and team
behaviour.....................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................3
P2: Content and process theories of motivation and different techniques to achieve a goal......3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3. Factors that makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..............................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P4. Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour.......................................................9
CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisation is a combination of person or group of people organised together to work
for achievement of a certain goals that is assign by the company. Whereas, organisational
behaviour is related to the study of human behaviour, activity perform within an organisation.
One of the leading food and beverages company, “A David & Co Limited” has been taken under
this report. It provides production and distribution of fruits. The company offer wide range fresh
fruits, vegetable, exotic product, prepared food item and other bakery item (Carlström and
Ekman 2012). They provide all these stuff to hotel, restaurants, school, nursing homes and
government contracts.
In this project report, analyses of organisation cultural, politics and power that influence
an individual and team performance are discussed. There are various ways of motivating
employee and team for achieving objective. Company also identify the1537253352 importance
of effective team over ineffective team. Various concepts and belief of organisational behaviour
within the A David & Co limited are discussed underneath.
TASK 1
P1: Analyse of organisation culture, politics and power influences individual and team
behaviour.
Organisation behaviour may be defined as the analyse the way of individual or groups
that comes together to perform a common function in order to achieve organisation goal. Politics,
power and cultural are important part of every business firm that can influence individual and
team activeness in achieving company performance. In chosen company HR manager examine
every factor like culture, power and politics that impact on employee or team performance. All
these three factor may have positive and negative impact on company overall objectives.
Culture: It is defined as the set of characteristics, knowledge, value, goals and practice
that characterize an organisation. It is an invisible force which influence the performance of a
team or an individual. If culture of organisation is good than employee cooperate with each other
performing the same task (Coccia, 2014). Managers of company analyse its culture which affects
the way individual interact with each other. HR manager of A David & Co follow Handy's
model of organisational culture for developing pleasing environment for its employee. This
model is explained below:
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Charles Handy, introduce the organisation culture by defining four major different kind
of culture for an organisation like power, Task, person and role.
Role culture: This is related to the distribution of roles and responsibilities according to
employee's Specialization, qualification and interest to extract the best out of them. Manager of
A David & Co follow this culture to show that every individual is responsible for something or
other and has to take control of the work allotted to him.
Person culture: In this culture employee are more obsessed about their own self rather
than the organisation. Manager of A David & Co make it clear for their employee that they
should always consider organisation first and everything else later.
Task culture: Under this culture company form team in order to achieve the targets or
solve some critical problem. In A David & Co manager form teams of individual with common
interest and specialization to resolve any problems that increase their performance.
Power culture: In some organisation power remain within the hand of few people and
only they are authorised to take decision. HR manager of A David & Co follow this culture and
keeps the power in their hand and further delegate responsibilities to the other employees. This
will help in increasing performance of individual and team.
Hofstede's Dimensions of Culture: Greet Hofstede's had identified five cultural
dimensions for assigning mathematical scores which is designated to a particular country's
beliefs about each of the dimensions and these dimensions for A David & Co are as follows: Power Distance: It is the willingness of a culture for acceptance of status and power
differences among its members. Uncertainty Avoidance: Its a need for formal rules and policies for A David & Co and
lack of tolerance of ambiguity. Masculinity vs. Femininity: In this A David & Co have to set two goals, first goal usually
described as masculine and whereas the latter goal is described as feminine. Individualism vs. Collectivism: In this type of cultures, people are expecting themselves
to portray as individuals, who seek to accomplish the needs and goals of individual.
 Long vs. Short Term Orientation: Long term orientation include acceptance of the
business result in achievement of goal and long term employee relationship whereas short
term orientation include short term results and achievement and potentially change of
employer by the employee.
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