Organisational Cultures and Workforce Motivation

Organisational Cultures
and Workforce Motivation
Company Booklet
assignment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Explain impact of culture, power and politics on individual and team performance of
Uber.............................................................................................................................................1
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................4
P2: Define content and process theories of encouraging employees and techniques of
motivation in goals accomplishment of Uber.............................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Organisational culture is the study of behaviours and reactions of individuals within
business organisation about how they interact and act with each other in groups. For
accomplishment of purpose it is very important for any organisation to identify and improve
organisational culture (Organizational Behavior Definition, 2017).
Workforce motivation is refers as the internal and external factors that encourage people
for perform roles & duties with full potential at workplace. Internal factors are those who
formulated within a personal like self learning, growth etc. while external factors are rewards,
compensation etc.
Uber Technologies Inc. is an American company that provides vehicles for food delivery,
hire, couriers, freight transportation etc. it is founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick & Garrett
Camp with aim as to bring conveyance for everyone at everywhere. The vision of it is to make
smart transportation with fewer cars & greater access.
In this report influence of power, politics and culture of organisation on its employees
performance are considered. In addition content and process theories of motivation for
organisation goal's achievements are addressed within the report.
TASK1
P1: Explain impact of culture, power and politics on individual and team performance of Uber.
Behaviour and performance of people are affected by variety of factors such as- type of
organisational culture, power of senior employees exercise over sub-ordinates, politics occurs
between groups and teams. Positive use of these factor may affects employees performance in
positive ways. On the other side negative use of these spreads negative impacts on behaviours
and performance of mankind at work place. For instance positive use of power may create
discipline and timely accomplishment of team objectives while, over supersize of power
generates internal conflict among groups. In context of Uber these factors are considered below:
Influences of culture:- It refers as norms, values and guidelines that has huge impact on
behaviours and performance of people and groups within the organisation (Brandstätter and et.
al., 2018). In terms of Uber affect of culture on employee motivation are discussed as under:
Handy's culture model
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