Organizational behavior assignment : BBC

Organizational
Behavior

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................................
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................................................
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................................
b) Power and political behaviour of managers.......................................................................................................
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................................
a) Content and process theories of motivation ......................................................................................................
b) How will improve level of motivation within BBC to achieve organisational goals........................................
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................................................
TASK 3......................................................................................................................................................................
a) Identify and explain different types of teams....................................................................................................
b) What makes effective team in BBC..................................................................................................................
TASK 4......................................................................................................................................................................
a) Organisational concept/theory which suggest that how team performances and productivity
can be improved.....................................................................................................................................................
b) Main barriers to effective performances in BBC..............................................................................................
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................................
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................................................

ILLUSTRATION INDEX

INTRODUCTION
Organisation behaviour consist study of complex nature of human being to
identify cause and effects of particular aspect. It assists to understand enterprise and
their employees in better ways. Therefore, staff members use it to increase their
knowledge for their own job satisfaction and to improve work performances.
Furthermore, it also conducts ways in which people can easily interact within groups
(Ljasenko, Ferreira and Lohse, 2018). It can be applied to make more efficient business
and increase efficiency of employees.
Present study is based on case study of BBC which faces challenges and makes
significant changes from past few years. There are several problems such as serious
fall in culture, communication system, management, etc.
In order to solve problem of BBC and focus on present study, it covers
organisational culture with applying appropriate theory. Furthermore, it considers
content and process theories of motivation to gain team and individual capacity.
Moreover, report will explain barriers to make effective performances in BBC.
PART 1
TASK 1
a) Organisational culture
Organisational culture - a pattern of shared underlying assumptions that the
group has taught while solving its problems of external adaptation and internal
integration that worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore taught to new
members as a way right to perceive and feel about these issues.
In BBC, there are wide issues regarding culture, because of lack of proper
communication, management and investigation among employees. Due to harassment
or staff complaints, there are several criticisms taken place. In the organisation, culture,
politics and power three major perspective that influence individual and team
performance. This is because, every person belongs to different culture and in
enterprise only one culture must be followed which is applied on all individuals.
Furthermore, politics power also creates impact on team performance so that all staff
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members must lead as per rules and regulations successfully. Hence, following theories
are applied to determine appropriate effectiveness in term of culture, politics and power:
Handy's Typology: According to this theory, certain elements are included that
works to define different culture:
 Power culture – is one based on the dominance of one or a small number of
individuals within an organization. They make key decisions for the organization.
This type of power culture can exist in a small business or a larger enterprise.
In BBC with power culture, there are few individuals influenced with their power in
the whole enterprise. Hence, rules and regulations are considered in power culture
which must be followed by individuals. It demonstrates that power decides individual
role to accomplish desired results (Alzahrani, Johnson and Altamimi, 2018).
Consequence of this aspect can be quick decision that considers long term interest
in the enterprise. In selected firm, power culture is usually strong.
 Role culture - is a structural concept of business and management, in which all
individuals are assigned a role or roles. This applies primarily to organizations
and departments operating within the same business, companies or jobs. Some
consider it an effective means of delegating work to a large entity.
This culture considers in BBC with rules and roles of individuals. Therefore, BBC
is highly controlled with each member of enterprise and they are known about their
roles and responsibilities. Role culture in firm determines a person's position within
the organisational structure (Afsar and Badir, 2015). Hence, it built detailed program
with appropriate structure to develop significant advantages in business. However,
consequences exist in decision making that are often and less likely to take risks.
 Task culture: refers to all the values, ethics and behaviors that an organization
seeks to impel in employees' minds to create a unique social and psychological
environment in which each worker tends to collaborate with others and focus on
achieving common goals and objectives. It is a type of corporate culture that
makes employees collaborate on the success of collaborative projects by
performing common tasks and jobs.
Task culture form when team in BBC consist to address specific problems taken
with specific task It is important thing so that power in team often shifts on mix of
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team members and their status (Chavent, Duncan and Sansom, 2018). Right skills,
personalities and leadership can be incredibly productive and creative.
 Person culture - is an unusual culture. It is not found in many organizations, but
many people enjoy some of its values. This type of culture is illustrated by a
weak cluster or a constellation of stars. In this culture, the individual is the focal
point; if there is a structure or an organization, it exists only to serve and help the
individuals inside it, in order to sustain its interests without any imperative
objective.
In BBC with person culture, each individual looking themselves with unique and
superior performances in the enterprise. With this regard, BBC collects people who
are willingly to work for increasing effectiveness in it. They also simply consider this
culture to encourage people to work.
Illustration 1: Charles Handy's Four classes of culture
(Source: Handy's Model of Organisational Culture, 2018)
Hofstede's Work: This theory considers dimension of cross culture communication. It
describes effect of society's culture value on members of BBC. Therefore, these values
are related with behaviour and uses structured work to make significant advantages.
Following are certain dimensions included in this culture:
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