Organizational Behaviour: Analyzing Aston Martin's Culture, Politics, and Power

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 2
LO1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1, M1 ANALYZE HOW AN ORGANIZATION’S CULTURE, POLITICS AND POWER CAN
INFLUENCE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM BEHAVIOUR AND PERFORMANCE WITHIN ASTON
MARTIN......................................................................................................................................3
LO2.................................................................................................................................................7
P2, M2 EVALUATE HOW CONTENT AND PROCESS THEORIES OF MOTIVATION AND
MOTIVATIONAL TECHNIQUES ENABLE EFFECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT OF GOALS IN AN
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT WITH RESPECT TO ASTON MARTIN..............................................7
CONTENT THEORIES OF MOTIVATION...................................................................................7
PROCESS THEORIES OF MOTIVATION....................................................................................9
LO3............................................................................................................................................... 11
P3, M3 DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE TEAM, AS
OPPOSED TO AN INEFFECTIVE TEAM WITH RESPECT TO ASTON MARTIN...............................11
DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEAMS............................................................................................... 11
TUCKMAN’S TEAM DEVELOPMENT MODEL.........................................................................13
LO4............................................................................................................................................... 15
P4, M4 APPLY CONCEPTS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF OB WITHIN AN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
AND A GIVEN BUSINESS SITUATION WITH RESPECT TO ASTON MARTIN................................15
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................... 17
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................18
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INTRODUCTION
Maintaining of appropriate organizational behaviour is highly important for attaining all the
aims and objectives of an organization’s business in the local or in the international market. The
management committee of an organization develops and implements various strategies and
tactics for maintaining the organizational behaviour within the workplace. The role of
appropriate organizational behaviour is highly significant in helping the organization to gain
competitive advantages in the market. This assignment discusses about an assortment of
different factors which depicts the influence of organizational behaviour within an organization
in the international market.
The organization that is selected for this this subsequent report on organizational behaviour is
“Aston Martin”. It is one of the leading manufacturing organizations of the UK which belongs to
the automobile industry. The operations of Aston Martin are expanded in several nations of the
world. The major aim of the organization is to generate higher and higher revenues every year
for the company. The number of employees working within the Aston Martin is very high and
thus it becomes very important for the management staff and committee members to
effectively manage the workforce and operations of the association, so as to achieve all the
organization goals and aims of the company successfully. The following report is discussed in
two parts, in which the concepts of organizational behaviour and its different aspects are
effectively deliberated.
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LO1
P1, M1 ANALYZE HOW AN ORGANIZATION’S CULTURE, POLITICS AND POWER
CAN INFLUENCE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM BEHAVIOUR AND PERFORMANCE
WITHIN ASTON MARTIN
A proper organizational structure as well as the organizational culture is developed within an
organization at the time of its start-up in the market by the senior management staff of the
company. The organizational structure and culture of an organization decides the rate of
organization’s success in the market. Thus, it is very important for a company to develop and
adopt the most appropriate organizational structure and culture within the workplace. There
are several different theories and models which explains the different types of organizational
culture which can be followed by an organization like Aston Martin in the market. One such
model which effectively explains about the different types of organizational culture is the
‘Charles Handy Typology” (Alnuaimi, et al. 2010).
According to the typology of Charles Handy, there are four different types of organizational
cultures that are followed by the organizations in the local or in the international market. These
four organizational cultures are as follows:
TASK CULTURE
According to the Charles Handy’s typology, task culture is a type of organizational culture in
which all the decisions within an organization are made by the combined views of teams at the
workplace. In this type of culture, the management committee of an organization develops
different teams and then assigns tasks to those respective teams (Alshmemri, et al. 2017). Every
team consists of a team leader who guide and support the team to achieve all the assigned
tasks successfully.
POWER CULTURE
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