Organisational Behaviour and Performance

Organisational
Behavioural

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance.................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques.............................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3 An effective team as opposed to an ineffective team............................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational context
and a given business situation.....................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is a study of human conduct within the organization to maintain
performance of the workers. Mainly, it is concerned with interaction between management and
workers to enhance overall productivity level. With the help of this, manager of the company can
easily create positive work environment. It also supports manager to maintain better relation with
their workers by communicating with them (Ayyagari, Grover and Purvis, 2011). This will help
in accomplishing goals and objectives in stipulated time frame. Present report is based on A
David & Co Limited, which is a food service company that provide fresh and quality products to
hotels, restaurant and increase their brand image at market place.
This report will discuss about organizational culture, politics, power and their influence
on performance of team and individuals. Different motivational theories are also mentioned in
this report which will help in attaining organizational goals. Along with this, difference between
effective and ineffective teams and their importance is also discussed here. At last, application of
concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour is also mentioned.
TASK 1
P1 Organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance
Every business organization have their specific culture, politics and power that directly
affect team and individuals behaviour at workplace. Along with this, it is important duty of
manager to provide roles and responsibilities to workers to perform their tasks in effective
manner. To attain success , company needs to evaluate workers behaviour at workplace.
Culture:
A David & Co Limited is food and beverage company which serve their quality products
to various customers with the purpose of attaining better success at marketplace. Mainly
company offer range of fresh vegetables, fruit, bakery items to contract caterers, school,
restaurants. With the help of this, company can easily increase their profitability level at market
place. In context of this, organizational culture refers to the values, behaviour which is important
for workers to follow at the time of performing entire functions (Hershcovis, 2011). This will aid
in creating positive work environment at workplace. Along with this, various factors of culture
are there which includes values, vision, language, assumption habits and belief. In addition of
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this, A David & Co Limited includes four type of culture which can be understood by following
points: Power culture: It refer to the distribution of power within workers. It directly impacts on
employees performance level because it provide function to workers as per their
performance and authority. If power is effectively delegated then workers can easily
improve their performance and also motivated towards the organizational goals and
objectives (Haslam and et.al., 2014). Role culture: In business, every employees has different roles and responsibilities
towards the job activities. In this context, manager of A David & Co Limited is
responsible for defining role of all the workers at workplace so that they can easily
perform their activities. With the help of this, manager can reduce any kind of issues and
confusion towards employees job activities. It help in improving overall performance of
the company at market place. Task culture: It is also important culture in which manager of the company focus on
building effective team in order to perform complex task. One of the main benefit of this
culture is to evaluate the issues and find better solution to resolve it effectively. By this
team members can easily improve performance level.
 Person culture: Under this, manager needs to focus on the every workers to provide
them better support to enhance their skills and knowledge. This will help in motivating
them to improving the performance level at workplace.
Politics:
Organizational politics refer to the informal efforts and activities to improving as well as
increasing ideas and power that directly influence the company. Mainly, it is done by the
workers who perform the business organization to enhance their productivity level within the
management. In organization, politics is negative factor because some time hard working
workers do not get good appraisal as per their performance (DeChurch and Mesmer-Magnus,
2010). Thus, they feel demotivated at workplace as compare to others. In this context, the impact
of organizational politics on workers are as follows: Reduction in productivity: Use of politics in company, workers are attaining success
whom are not able to perform their task. This will negatively affect the overall
productivity level of the employees at workplace.
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