Organizational Behavior: Culture, Politics, Power, Motivation, and Team Dynamics

UNIT: 12 –Organizational Behaviour
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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Task 1-Written report............................................................................................................................4
Introduction:......................................................................................................................................4
P1 Analyse how an organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behavior and performance.................................................................................................................4
M1 Critically analyze how the culture, politics, and power of an organization can influence
individual and team behavior and performance.................................................................................8
D1 Critically evaluates the relationship between culture, politics, power, and motivation that
enables teams and organizations to succeed in providing justified recommendations.......................9
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................10
Task 2..................................................................................................................................................11
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................11
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective achievement of goals in an organizational context............................................................11
M2 Critically evaluates how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective application
of behavioural motivational theories, concepts, and models............................................................15
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................16
Task 3..................................................................................................................................................17
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................17
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..................................17
M3 Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the development of dynamic
cooperation......................................................................................................................................19
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................20
Task 4..................................................................................................................................................21
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................21
P4. Apply the concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior within an organizational
context and a given business situation.............................................................................................21
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M4 Explore and evaluate how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence behavior in
both a positive and negative way.....................................................................................................23
D2. Critically analyze and evaluate the relevance of team development theories in the context of
organizational behavior concepts and philosophies that influence behavior in the workplace.........24
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................25
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................26
References...........................................................................................................................................27
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Introduction
This report will present the organizational culture, policies and also the power of 4com plc
for encouraging the working efforts done by the whole management. The 4com plc is UK
based telecommunication provide which assists in providing business telephone system to the
UK SME market. They also improve the phone solutions for resolving the telephonic issues
of approx. 10000 customers within the home country. The turnover of 4com plc is £20M to
£30M. This assignment is mainly focused on the content and procedure theories of
motivation and motivational methods which enables the actual attainment of goals within the
business environment. Also, the role of the effective team will be explained as opposed to an
ineffective team. In addition to this, the concept and philosophies of organizational behavior
within the situation of 4com plc will be explained. The report also presents Maslow’s theory
and Charles henrys model of culture illustration. The concepts and strategies adopted by
4com plc. will be evaluated for solving the business issue.
(Source: Livewire, 2018)
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Task 1-Written report
Introduction:
This part of the reported study will introduce the culture, politics and also the powerful
influence of 4com plc. Different models such as Charles Hendy, Hofstede, etc. will be
evaluated below. Also, the organizational culture and politics of 4com plc will critically
analyzed.
P1 Analyse how an organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual and
team behavior and performance.
As stated by Charles Handy, culture is the way in which the persons live and trail unrecorded
standards. He also explained that the philosophy portraying a society is resolute, built and
dispersed by the leading group within the association. The organizational culture of 4com plc.
contains power culture, task culture, person culture and role culture.
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Organizational culture
The organizational culture is simply defined as the basic politics, standards and ways of
interrelating which contributes towards the single and psychosomatic environment of the
organization. It consists of the behaviour of value of organization which can either affect its
environment in positive or negative way. The organizational culture of 4com plc is effective
which helps in attaining its stated goals and objective of the organization. It can be seen that
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Power Role
Task Person

the organizational culture of 4com plc helps in providing innovative and strategic ideas for
the development of the organization. Basically, the 4com pl. is a medium sized organization
where the workers are dedicated towards their work which helps in the rapid development of
the firm. There are many products of 4com plc which has been improved effectively such as
business phone system, application and others.
As stated in Hofstede Insights (2018), organizational culture is well-defined as the method in
which the business employee linked to each other, their effort and the outdoor world by
comparing with other organization. This will not hinder or enable the strategies made by the
organization. The Hofstede is divided into five dimensions which are individualism, time
orientation, femininity, power distance, uncertainty avoidance. This theory is used within the
working environment of 4com plc. for integrating the efforts of employees in the culture for
getting an effective outcome.
Power culture
In an organization with the authority culture, the power is mainly detained by few persons
whose effect ranges in the organization. It means that some employees or managers are
involved in the decision making the process of the organization. There is various power
culture within 4com plc such as experts, legitimate, referent and coercive power which can
either have a positive or negative impact on the growth and development of the organization.
The advantage of power culture is that it helps in making the decision easily (Merchant,
2018). In the working environment of 4com plc it can be seen that only some of the
employees used to take part in the decision meetings and due to this, the employer is to not
required to analyze the various decisions. Mainly the power culture of 4com plc consists of
manager who holds the reasonable power more than the employees. The 4com plc is
telecommunication firm which requires some technical experts who can be able to take a
decision regarding the software and hardware works of the system (Tutor2u, 2018). The
referent power is linked with the reference of other employee working within the firm. The
coercive power shows the negative part of the organization in which threats and other
activities will be used by the upper management against the employees for the completion of
the work. In the context of 4com Plc. rewards are also provided by the management for
motivating the employees (Merchant, 2018).
Role culture
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