Organizational Behaviour: Perception, Motivation, Leadership, Change, and Culture

Running Head: Organizational Behaviour
Organizational Behavior
Individual Topics

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Table of Contents
1.0 Activity Perception......................................................................................................................................................2
2.0 Motivation....................................................................................................................................................................... 2
3.0 Leadership...................................................................................................................................................................... 3
3.1 Difference between Trait and Behavioural Theory of Leadership....................................................3
3.2 How can Organization Chose and Develop Leader..................................................................................3
4.0 Organization Change.................................................................................................................................................. 3
4.1 Five Sustaining Innovation.................................................................................................................................3
4.2 Five Disruptive Innovations...............................................................................................................................4
5.0 Culture.............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
6.0 References.......................................................................................................................................................................5

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1.0 Activity Perception
I recently watch this classic “A few good men-1992” and thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I
admired the courage of the Male protagonist Lt. Kaffee in standing against the Colonel. I enjoyed
every bit of the movie and even liked the message depicted in the movie. Few days back I was
discussing this movie with a friend of mine, and I was really shocked to find, that anyone could
actually dislike such a wonderful movie with a message.
On thinking a lot, I realized that my friend and I had a different reaction to the movie because
we came from different backgrounds. My Friend’s dad served in the army for over 20 years
before he retired. He saw the movie in a different light and held strong views for the “Code Red”
and the importance and strong value of “Command & Order” from senior officer. I on the other
hand watch the movie in the light of rationality and leadership. I realised that the essence of
leadership lies in motivating the individuals to do the right thing, ethically. Bad leadership could
lead to disastrous result which can be bad for the individual as well the organization.
2.0 Motivation
Sales force, CISCO, Adobe, SAP, Bayer, EY, Hilton & Bayer are some of the companies featuring in
the large category to work in the UK. There are plethora of reasons which makes these
companies the best places to work in the UK. However, one of the most important reasons is
that they strongly value their employees and empower them by giving them the power of
decision making. A great place to work is an organization which is highly employee centric and
creates positive work environment at the workplace which results in the motivation of its
employees (Giovanis, 2018).
These organizations have strong focus towards their employees and use motivation theories to
push their employees to achieve excellence in the workplace. Maslow theory of motivation
which is also called as the need theory is used to identify the needs of the employees, and
accordingly they are motivated. Similarly, the two factor theory (Herzberg’s Motivation Hygiene
Theory) is used to eliminate the hygiene factors, which are the job dissatisfaction factors and
promote the motivation factors which increase the job satisfaction at the workplace. Human
resource is the biggest asset of the organization, and all these firms acknowledge this fact and
work towards motivating their staff to achieve sustained productivity in the organization
(Rudolph, 2016).