Organisational Behaviour and Performance PDF

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.........................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2. Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context...........................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P3. Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...........................8
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P4. Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and a given business situation......................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is a human tool which is beneficial for humans. This is all
about how an individual is behaving and interacting with their staff members in the organisation.
This can be said as the process of directing and controlling the behaviour of an employee within
the organisation. The present report is all about AM (Holdings) Ltd, which is a private limited
company dealing in material sector in the container and packaging industry. This operates as a
holding company which is incorporated on 17 October, 2007 (Ashenden and Sasse, 2013) . This
report will draw attention on the impact of organisation culture, power and politics on the
behaviour of the workers at the workplace. As it is said that coordination and cooperation is
needed among the employees in the organisation to attain the desired goals, so the discussion on
this will be take place in the current report. Along with this the discussion on motivation theories
will also going to be mentioned in the report. In the end the report will be wind up by applying
the philosophies of organisation behaviour in various situation of business.
TASK 1
P1. Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance
Organisational behaviour is all about measuring the performance and activities performed
by an individual. This is the process which guides how to operate an business entity in an
effective manner. By this, the organisation can define the nature of employees. The main aim of

the company is to inspire and encourage their staff members in achieving their targets in
effective time frame (Carlos Pinho, Paula Rodrigues and Dibb, 2014) . The various elements
such as organisation culture, power and politics impacts can be briefly understand by the model
of Handy Culture which is popularly known as Handy's topology. The four elements that affects
the organisation behaviour are mentioned below :
 Organisation Culture – Organisation culture is the process of assumptions, beliefs and
values. This culture defines the way of employees in interacting or communicating with
other employees in the organisation. This can be better understand by the model of
Handy Culture, which helps in reducing the high turnover rate and enhancing the
performance level of staff members. The following are the components of the above
model, which are described as below-
Power Culture
In an organisation, only the higher authority
has the power to take any decisions. In similar
way, in AM holdings Ltd company the
decisions are taken by the CEO and senior
manager and also the tasks are assigned by
them, so that the firm can able to sustain their
business. This culture is mainly used by the
small business enterprises.
Task Culture
The employees of the organisation are assigned
with the specific task by their superiors in
order to accomplish their targets in an effective
manner and in a positive time frame. This
culture of handy topology provides the flexible
and positive working structure.
Role Culture
In this culture, the employees are delegated
with the roles and responsibilities assigned by
their senior manager in order to achieve the
desired goals and set of objectives. In the
similar way, in AM holding Ltd company, the