Organizational Behavior in 4Com Plc

Organizational
Behavior

Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................... 3
TASK 1........................................................................................................................ 3
P1 Influence of organization’s culture, politics and power.......................................3
TASK 2........................................................................................................................ 5
P2 Content and process theories of motivation.......................................................5
TASK 3........................................................................................................................ 6
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team........6
TASK 4........................................................................................................................ 8
P4 Concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior.......................................8
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................. 9
REFERENCES............................................................................................................. 10

INTRODUCTION
Management activities like understanding, predicting and influencing individual behavior
in an organization that further examine structure of workplace and suggest ways in which the
organizational processes and operations can be improved (Ashkanasy and Humphrey, 2011). In
this report, organizational behavior will be thoroughly analyses to address issues like workforce
motivation, incentives, team-building and business environment in context to 4Com Plc which
serves in telecommunication and aim to improve the communication services of all SME market
in UK. However this report also highlights influence of organization’s culture, politics and
power on individual and team performance as well as different theories that help in motivating
employees within 4Com Plc. In addition, it also carries efficiencies of effective team in an
organization and suggests different methods that help in building effective team. Various
philosophies and concept of organizational behavior that help to meet changing requirements of
business environment at 4Com Plc will also be discussed in this report.
TASK 1
P1 Influence of organization’s culture, politics and power
Factors such as organizational culture, politics and power are key to success in a
workplace, as weak organizational factors provides low motivation, employee fraud and bad
behaviors in the workplace. Managers of 4Com Plc need to focus all these factors like motivate
employees, make rules to avoid fraud, design programs for training and development etc. in
order to get successful workplace environment and low employee’s turnover rate.
Organization Culture: Through it 4Com Plc identify and evaluate its productivity and
employees performance, it also provide guideline on customer care and services, product quality
and safety, punctuality. The influence of cultural differences at 4Com Plc can be thoroughly
explained by Hofstede’s model of cultural factors which contribute in the culture of organization
as well as influences employee’s behavior (Bolino and et. al., 2013). According to Hofstede there
are five major factors that influence the culture of respective workplace such as:
Power Distance: It refers to the differences in culture as per the power delegated to
employees at 4Com Plc, this shows openness among employees as well as management which
influences organization environment. If respective company do High power distance and do not
conduct open communication among employees and management due to which employees feel
hesitated in performing their task and share problems to superior as well as this increases
employee’s turnover ratio which leads to decrease in productivity and affect company profit and
growth. Whereas low power distance at a company provides more openness to employees and
make them feel valued there in organization.
Masculinity vs. Feminity: At 4Com Plc. Company provides equal opportunities to both
man and woman according to their skills and qualifications which assist the company to
accomplish their goals more successfully (Podsakoff and House, 2013). This leads to motivated
and better working environment for all employees as well as management, because through it

employee get motivated that they are getting equal importance and also by it conflict can reduce
and avoid in re4spective organization.
Individualism vs. Collectivism: Working on a common interest at 4Com Plc includes
having same goals and objectives among employees, management as well as organization as
whole which assist them to achieve their goals with more efforts and consumes less resource as
well as support team work activities and assures good quality of work. This also provides enough
space to their employees to think out of the box and participate with more innovative and
profitable ideas and suggestions (Carpenter, Berry and Houston, 2014).
Uncertainty avoidance: It refers to a culture and tolerance power of employees of
4Com Plc, that how employees respond proactive in unpredictable situation which arise in their
organization uncertainly. The respective company try to avoid this situation but when it come it
is responsibility of employer and employee to handle this situation effectively and efficiently.
Long-term vs. Short-term Orientation: Organizations such as 4Com Plc. which focuses
on futuristic goals and have long-term relationship with their employees, they motivate and make
them loyal so that their employees fell connected to them and consider organizational objective
as their objective and make efficient efforts to fulfill it. But there are some organization whose
main objective is to earn profit and they didn't pay any attention to employees engagement these
type of company have short term objective, their main aim is to earn profit (Colquitt and et. al.,
2011).
Organization Power: It is the ability to in fluence individual behaviors to make them
work according to the needs of management and organizational benefits. In 4Com Plc there can
be five sources of power such as:
Legitimate Power: It refers to the power originated from one’s organizational role or
designation. In 4Com Plc. Managers have the power to sign the work to their subordinates and
assures they complete that work with full coordination within the time by achieving given task
goals.
Reward Power: In 4Com Plc management grant rewards to their subordinates or
employees in from of pay, perks, attractive job assign, bonus etc. to them whose performance
level is up to the mark or satisfactory.
Coercive Power: This is the ability of management to punish employees in 4Com Plc for
their bad or poor performance by taking back some beneficial opportunities from them. This
power is often used to produce or complete work form employees which they usually refuse to
perform or hard to attain.
Expert Power: This power is hold by experts at 4Com Plc who have knowledge, skills
and expertise in specific field and who can provide better solutions for particular problems
regarding that field.
Referent Power: In 4Com Plc this power is hold by those who have personal
characteristics or good relations with company’s CEO or other designated staff (DuBrin, 2013).