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Organizational Behaviors Assignment

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3TASK 1......................................................................................................................................31.1 compare and contrast the organizational culture and structure of both ford andMonsanto................................................................................................................................31.2 Analyze group based structure and the culture which exists in the organization............41.3 Factors which influence the behaviour of individual.......................................................4TASK 2......................................................................................................................................52.1 identify the leadership followed before and after team based working...........................5TASK 4......................................................................................................................................64.1 identify different types of groups and suggest reason for different types of behaviour. .64.2 factors leading to effective teamwork and the threats involved in continuing team basedworking..................................................................................................................................64.3 impact of technology on both Monsanto and ford in the team working..........................7REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTIONOrganization behaviour is the behaviour of the individuals towards the working andthe colleagues. This report talks about ford which is manufacturing car company andMonsanto which is an agriculture biotechnology firm. These two organizations have changedtheir business to team based working. These two are organization are very successful. Thisreport stresses on the culture and structure adopted by both the company before and after re-organization. Further, it stresses on the leadership style which the companies have adoptedafter the team based working and its importance as compared to previous one. TASK 11.1 Compare and contrast the organizational culture and structure of both ford and MonsantoOrganizational culture and structure have huge impact on the functioning of theorganization. The ford and Monsanto is successful in their own business. For is the successfulcar company which is headquartered in US. Initially, the organization used lineorganizational structure as in this structure there is a direct relationship between differentlevels of the firm. In past, ford concentrated on the performance of each department.Departments were given the goal and they have to accomplish it. In case of doing marketingof the car, the marketing department made the strategy has they were the people who wereresponsible for it (Wilson, 2014). The culture which was followed in ford was the roleculture. Different power was given to the individual according to their position. In case ofdepartment, the head had the power to give the task to their subordinates. But after the teambased structure, the organization structure and culture was changed. The structure which wasadopted by the company after team based approach is the divisional structure. All the team isbased according to their expertise. Every team has different goals and they focus on theirparticular aspect. Task culture is the culture which Ford is following in the company.According to this culture, every team is given particular task and they have to fulfil them.This has made the work easier and now because this they are planning to expand theirbusiness in the other segment.The Monsanto is the agriculture biotechnology company which manufacture manyproducts. Because of this organization India came know many things. The main this which ismanufactures is the modified crop seed which is useful for the farmers. Before the team based1

structure, this company used hierarchical structure. In past, the business was small so all thework was done by few individual and according to their position they were assigned work aswell as authority. The culture which was followed was person culture; every individual isliable for the work and had the power to take decision. But now as the company has beenexpanded it has transformed their work to team based work. Now the structure which isfollowed in the organization is project based culture (Phillips and Gully, 2011). This isbeneficial for the company because every project is dealt by different individual because ofthis they are able to manufacture more of the products. The culture which is adopted by theorganization is the task culture as according to the task every employee has been assignedroles and responsibility and they have to accomplish in the given period of time.1.2 Analyze group based structure and the culture which exists in the organizationOrganization structure and culture is developed to enhance the performance of theorganization and to meet the objectives and vision and mission effectively. Both theorganization has changed their working into the team based working, so its impact on thefunctioning is both positive as well as negative. In case of ford, first changing the structurehad created resistance in employees as they have become comfortable with the structurewhich was followed in organization Warner, 2014). In this initial time it lowered down theperformance of human resource. But after some time it had positive impact because of thetask culture, performance of the employees were measured effectively by the company. Thiswas reason as company thought to expand its business in different segment. In case of Monsanto, after team based structure the authority of giving orders on thesubordinate was diluted. According to the project, every team has a different leader. But thepositive impact on the performance was that their productivity was enhanced and because ofthe team a strong culture was build between the members of the team. According to thepower the decision making became fast it helped the organization in successfullyimplementation of strategy (Brunsman, DeVore and Houston, 2011).1.3 Factors which influence the behaviour of individualThere are several factors which affect the behaviour of the individual especially whenthey are working in a team to achieve the objective. Both the company is following the teambased structure so the factor which impact the behaviour are:Capabilities and skills of the employees- At the time of working in a team, behaviourof the members are influenced by the skills which is having in the other team member.In case of ford, the team members get inspiriting from other individual skill which has2

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