Organisational Behaviour: Effective Teams and Team Development Theories

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................3
Effective team v/s Ineffective team........................................................................................4
Team Development Theories.................................................................................................6
Concepts and Philosophies of Organisational Behaviour......................................................8
Analysis and Evaluation of theories..................................................................................11
ACTIVITY 2..................................................................................................................................12
Influence of Culture, politics and power on performance of individual and teams.............12
Content and process theory of motivation and motivational technique...............................14
Covered in PPT................................................................................................................14
Critical evaluation of application of behavioural motivational theories..............................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is basically the study of group and individual's performance and
activities within an organisation. It examines or evaluate human behaviour and culture in a work
environment and analyse its effect on performance, job structure, communication, motivation,
leadership, etc (Alenazi, Muenjohn and McMurray, 2019). Organisational behaviour is directly
concerned with understanding and control of human behaviour which is necessary for timely
completion of work and to achieve the targets. This assignment is divided two task where first
task is based on IBM and second part is on Apple Inc. IBM (International Business Machines) is
an American multinational technology company headquartered in New York and operating in
more than 170 countries of the world. This part of assignment includes an explanation about
effective and ineffective team and for that purpose, use of team development models are made.
Concept and philosophies of organisational behaviour are also included to improve performance
and productivity in IBM.
Second task of this report is based on Apple Inc. which is a multinational technology
company of U.S. headquartered in California. This part includes critical analysis of Apple's
culture, politics and power which is having its influence on behaviour and performance of
individuals and teams. Content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
are also included for effective achievements of goals of organisation.

ACTIVITY 1
Overview- International Business Machines (IBM) is a technology company having its
business operations across the world. It basically provides cloud- based services, hardware,
software and cognitive computing. This company is headquartered in Armonk, New York and
also known as 'Big Blue'. IBM is having a vision of becoming World's most successful and
important information technology company. The main objective of IBM is to lead in the creation,
development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technology including
computer systems, networking systems, software, storage device, etc. (Inside IBM, 2019).
Team- A group of individuals working together for achieving a common goal or target is
known as team. It mainly consist of two or more members having some complementary skills
and generates synergy through properly coordinated efforts to maximize their strengths and
reduce their weaknesses (Ashkanasy and Humphrey, 2011). IBM has grouped its employees into
different teams to utilise the benefit of combined skills and perspective of employees from
different parts of organisation. There are many kinds of team like functional team, cross
functional team, virtual team and self directed team. In this digital era role and importance of
virtual teams are increasing as they are useful in reducing the cost and time of travel which
improves productivity of firm. IBM is also having different types of teams and virtual teams are
also there to improve the productivity and interaction between employees. Use of
communication technology like email, Fax, video conferencing etc. is made by IBM for
discussions and convey of messages between team members for achievement of common target.
Virtual teams has reduced the geographical limitations through providing a better way of
interaction but it also increased the chances of poor communication or coordination due to failure
of technology.
Effective team v/s Ineffective team
In every organisation, there are some teams which are effective and leads to timely
achievement of goals while some teams are ineffective which lacks in performance thus, not able
to meet objectives on time (Ates and Bititci, 2011). Key features of both effective and ineffective
teams are given below:
Key features of Effective teams
Following are the key features which makes a group of people effective in achieving their
targets on time: