Study on Organizational Behavior

ORGANIZATION AND
BEHAVIOR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Compare and contrast of different organization structure.....................................................3
1.2 Impact of organization culture and structure on entity's performance...................................4
1.3 Factors which effects individual behavior at workplace .......................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Effectiveness of different leadership styles ..........................................................................5
2.2 Organization theory and its linked with management styles.................................................6
2.3 Different approaches to management and leadership theories..............................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Impact of leadership styles of staff behavior ........................................................................7
3.2 Comparison of different motivational theories .....................................................................8
3.3 Effectiveness of motivational theory ....................................................................................9
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Nature of groups and group behavior .................................................................................10
4.2 Factors which effects team performances ...........................................................................10
4.3 Impact of technology on team functioning in institution....................................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Organization behavior is defined as the study of individual and group behavior of
employees within an organization. It helps to entities for improving their work performance.
There are different types of concepts which are used by organization to making effective
decision making process (Ahmad and Saud, 2016). The parents report is based on the two
organization City college and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. This report make analysis on different
types of organization structure and their implication on the given entities. It also makes analysis
on the leadership approach and their uses within entities. At last this report make analysis on the
factors which might effects performances of individual at work place.
TASK 1
1.1 Compare and contrast of different organization structure
City college is a private college which is situated in the North West London. This college
is acquired by private investor (Cadenhead and Danielli, 2013). Organization structure is refers
as hierarchy of staff members and functions of an enterprise. In the city college functional and
flat both structure is followed by city college. In this all responsibilities is divided into the
departments. In the college all the operation function is divided into three different departments.
There are 200 employees working in the college. On the basis of the individual's job function the
entity's have many departments such as Teaching, Human resource and Administration
department. Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the largest car purchaser company and it followed long
chain command in the organization. Front line management employees are given order and
instruction by managers that are working at local levels in the structure order passed through the
upper level to lower level (Cummings and Worley, 2014).
Organization culture is refers as to the shared values, beliefs and assumptions which
governs behavior workers in within entity. As according to the Charles Handy's model, of
organization cultural there are mainly four type of organization cultural which includes power,
task, person and role culture. Power culture in which activities are controlled by the top
management, in task culture individual performance is measured by the capabilities of
performing task, person culture in which individual given more preferences to their own interset
rather than organization's objectives (Grossberg, 2013). In the Role cultural where person
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followed by role and responsibility. The city college is followed the role cultural in which each
duties and responsibility are given to staff members. In Enterprise Rent-A-Car power culture is
followed in which authorities are given to only few people.
Along with this there is another model of organization's cultural, which is Edgar Schein’s
Iceberg Model. Mainly divided into three parts i.e. Artifacts, Assumed values and values.
Artifacts, in this characteristic of the organization which can be easily viewed, heard and felt by
individuals collectively known as artifacts (Katan,2014) The next step is value in which they
individual cultural is important to decide the cultural of the organization. The third level is
depended on the facts and beliefs which are based which are hidden in nature but can effects
organization culture.
1.2 Impact of organization culture and structure on entity's performance
Organization cultural and their structure both are interrelated with each other. It also
makes effects in the organization's performances (Mai, 2015) Effective organizational structure
provides framework for implementing the organizational culture in systematic way. With the
help of a systemic structure approach organization use different types of methods and practices
that helps to them for running their business activities in effective manner. City College followed
flat structure in which the small chain of command used. Along with this college followed role
culture which is mainly associated with giving power and responsibility to the employee and
specific tasks need to be perform for conducting business operations. In the college all the
departments work together so they can achieve set objectives and accomplished work in
productivity manner (Matsson and Dahlqvist, 2013).
In the Enterprise Rent-A-Car has adopted divisional and tall organization structure and
where long chain of command is followed. In this firm power culture is used in which authorities
are handle by only few people more preferences are given to customer's satisfaction. In this the
entity followed high level of customers services and gain more competitive advantages. Impact
of this culture on company is that through this they can control their employees actives and
provide guidelines to develop effective interaction with customers (Miyata, Kuwaki and
Ootsuka, 2016).
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