Organisational Behaviour of 2m Group Limited - Assignment

ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
TASK – 1...................................................................................................................................2
P1 Effect of culture, politics and power on individual, team behaviour and performance....2
TASK – 2...................................................................................................................................4
P2 Content and process theories as well as techniques of motivation and their contribution
in achieving the goals of 2M Holdings Limited.....................................................................4
TASK – 3...................................................................................................................................5
P3 How effective team is made as compared to an ineffective team.....................................5
TASK – 4...................................................................................................................................7
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within 2m Holdings Limited....7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The consequence of organizational behaviour as employees and their behavioural
pattern in the present times is being regarded as a prime factor in order to have effective
functioning of the company. Organization behaviour is nothing but a vast field that supports
the firm in investigating the impact of structure, individual as well as group on the behaviour
and culture of the company. It also significantly influences the performance and employ
strength to accomplish pre-determined objectives (Armstrong and Stephens, 2005). Thus, it
can be said that it helps in covering the way people behave within the organization. For
having success in each and every facets, it is very vital to have co-operation of different
resources and among all these resources human resource is quite crucial. Individual’s
behaviour is spontaneous and unbalanced and therefore, it is termed as exclusive. With
reference to this, it becomes necessary to understand the way individual communication in
the firm such that all their efforts are integrated towards achievement of specified goal of the
firm. Further, the organisational culture is set of expectations, experiences, philosophies as
well as values that aids in offering direction to employee’s behaviour and articulates the own
image, interaction and inner working of the employees with the outer world (Bryan, 2012).
In view of the above, as a Human resource Manager of medium size organization
such as 2m Group Limited, an evaluation of culture of the firm will be performed. 2m Group
Limited was founded by Mottie Kessler in the year 2004 with an objective to grow an
international chemicals distribution portfolio on the basis of excellent companies and with
strong brands. The company is wholly owned private company being headquartered in the
United Kingdom, with an international presence in numerous countries such as China,
Ireland, Benelux, Scandinavia, Poland and Brazil. In addition to this, the business of 2M
Holdings pays attention on automotive, coating, emission reduction, precision cleaning,
flavours and fragrances, oil-field and refineries and surfactants for personal-care, hygiene
cleaning and pharmaceuticals (2M Holdings Ltd, 2018). As a Human Resource Manager of
the company, it is the accountability to improve the performance by executing suitable
culture within the firm. Concerning this, the present research writing will aim to understand
the impact of culture, politics and power will have on the behaviour of people in the firm.
Moreover, the research paper will also focus on various motivational theories that will aid in
improving the performance level of the staff-members. The final part of the report, will
explain the methods of creating cooperation with each other and work as a team. The
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philosophies in regards with the organisational behaviour will also be elaborated
substantially.
TASK – 1
P1 Effect of culture, politics and power on individual, team behaviour and performance
Impact of culture
The culture of each and every organization is divided into four types i.e. role, person,
power and task as per Mullins. The power culture focuses mainly on control wherein the
power of control is being delegated to a particular individual which influences the
functioning of the whole company. It is generally followed by medium sized firm like 2M
Holdings limited. In power culture, there is lack of concentration that sometimes demotivates
the employees. The role culture on the other side is based upon certain rules. Nowadays, it is
very common in most of the firms (Schien, 2000). The main emphasis is being given on
splitting the company into varied functions and each and every function has their own rules.
Organization which generally have tall organizational structure follows this type of culture.
With this, the firm gets specialization and workers feels motivated and in turn they perform
well. Further, the task culture concentrates on team approach for carrying out operations and
work activities. This type of culture is quite prevalent in this every changing and competitive
business environment. Today, each and every firm is eventful in making team for their
projects with a main aim to have better as well as productive outcomes. Other than this, task
culture helps in motivating the employees normally to add some value to their work because
they are the one who will make important decisions. With this, the staff-members feels
enthusiastic. Last but not the least, person culture is being defined as that culture wherein the
employees are treated superior in comparison with the firm. In this type of culture, people
who work individually for the company or those who have common objectives to attain are
being considered. Furthermore, non-profit organizations and charitable firms generally makes
use of person culture (Martins and Treblanche, 2003).
Hofstede’s dimension of cultural theory
For comprehending the impact of culture on the workers of 2M Holdings Limited,
Hofstede’s cultural dimension theory can be used significantly. It is being defined as an
important framework regarding cross-cultural communication that helps in evaluating the
workers values as well as behaviour. Elaboration of the theory is being done beneath:
 Power distance index – This depicts the degree of inequality that take place amid
people with and without power. If this index shows the score at higher side than it is
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