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Organizational Behavior

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................................3SECTION 1 ...................................................................................................................................................3Q1: Comparing organizational structure and cultures.............................................................................3Q 2: Relationship between organizational structure and culture and its impact on business performance............................................................................................................................................4Q 3: Factors which influences the behavior of an individual at work......................................................4Q 4: Organizational theory underpins te practice of management .........................................................6Q 5: Comparing effectiveness of leadership styles of organizations........................................................6Q 6: Evaluating approaches to management .................................................................................................................................................................7Q7: Impact of different leadership styles may have on motivation of managers and staff during periodsof change.................................................................................................................................................7Q8. Comparing the application of different motivational theories.........................................................8Q 9: Evaluating the usefulness of motivation theories for managers......................................................9SECTION 2....................................................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTIONEmployee and the manner in which they work define the organizational behavior. On thesimilar basis, the structure is designed which give them course to carry out their roles andresponsibilities. Therefore, Organizational Behavior (OB) and Culture are most significantaspects that define employee work and motivate them to do accomplish organizationalobjectives. In the same vein, there are factors that determine successful achievement of work forgetting resultant outcome. This report is a medium to study the culture and behavior of differentorganizations. Hence, organizations such as B and Q and ASOS have been taken. Top leaders ofthese firms use different ways and approaches to motivate their employee (Cullen andYammarino, 2014). The objective lies in identifying types of structure and culture methodadopted by these companies. Along with this, the focus has been made on various theories andapproaches that are used to enhance their productivity. Lastly, leadership styles and motivationalstrategies that are used by managers acting as a leader for employees will be discussed.SECTION 1 Q1: Comparing organizational structure and culturesOrganizational structureFunctional structureBlock and Quayle (B&Q) is a retailing organization which has functional as a type oforganization's structure. There are formed number of departments such as finance, humanresources, marketing etc. Since B&Q has 389 number of stores at different locations in Chinaand UK, the allocation of tasks and their divisions are well established in the form of sub-departments (B&Q, 2015). The significance of using this structure help the organization to workand meet the targets on time according to the work assigned by the managers from differentdepartments.Product organizational structure ASOS is an online retailer who deals in clothing as a products in UK. The working of thisretail company is online and all its functions are based online at global level. It has websites

which focuses on different nations of the world. The reason of using this type of structure is tofollow product type work. This is the reason as the company is also held responsible for effectiveand timely delivery of products from their end. Therefore, there is need for head at every locationwho can manage the overall working from the corporate office (Rakowska, Valdes-Conca and deJuana-Espinosa, 2015). The working is made by the various department and employees fromvarious locations of the areas.Matrix organizational structureAnother type of organizational structure which refers to reporting dimension fromhorizontal and vertical basis. Irrespective of the post and position of employee working at NewLook which is global fashion retail Company of UK. Since the Company is owned by SouthAfrican owner, the matrix structure followed supports the working responsibilities from twomanagers and accordingly work out the responsibilities as priorities. Organizational culturePower cultureAt ASOS, the culture of power exist to carry out the work responsibilities. Since, thecompany is online based, the power to take decision are there in hand of owner or authorizedleaders. They believe in culture of little consultation and quick decision making. Role cultureIn consideration to this type of organizational culture as adopted at New Look FashionCompany assign specific role and work. The leaders at this company believes in imparting thework and assigning roles to safeguard the duplication of work. It also enable the employee toshare new ideas and adapt changes. Task cultureThe type of culture which existed at B&Q is Task Culture. According to this type ofculture, power of making decision is in the hands of small number of people. It is because theempire of this Company is of 29,962 number of employees. In order to manage working and takedecision on their behalf, the employees were involved and empowered.

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