BUS209: Organizational Behaviours Assignment 2022

Module Name
[ OrganizationalBehaviours]
Submitted To:
[ U Ah ZerZar Sar ]
Submitted By:
[ Phyu Syn Htut ]
[ Student ID –2020A3043 ]
Organizational cultures and Workforce Motivation
Organizatonal Culture

An organization’s culture defines the appropriate way to behave within the organization
[ CITATION Kel20 \l 1033 ]. This culture consists of shared beliefs and values established by
leaders, which are communicated and reinforced in a variety of ways, ultimately shaping
employees' perceptions, behaviours, and understandings.
Types of organizational cultures
There are 4 types of organizational cultures and they are given below.
1) Power culture
2) Role culture
3) Task culture
4) Person culture
Importance of Organizational culture
Every organization has a unique way of working that often contributes to its culture. Culture
determines how employees interact in the workplace. A healthy culture encourages employees to
be loyal and passionate about management. Work culture goes a long way in creating an
organization's brand image. The work culture gives an identity to the organization.
Culture impact on Organizational behavior
Positive impact of culture - An organization with a strong culture has common values and ethics
for its employees, which should help them accomplish their missions and goals. Employees can
get job recognition and job satisfaction when they complete the tasks assigned by the
organization.
Negative impact of culture - Organizational conflict is a disagreement between two or more
organization members or groups arising from the fact that they must share scarce resources or
work activities and the facts have different conditions, goals, values and perceptions. It
negatively affects productivity.
Organizational culture in Google
Google's culture focuses on a comfortable work environment for employees. A company with
employees has the freedom to express themselves and are involved in the company's decision-

making produces more results and are always committed to their work. Google Company has a
culture that is well understood by its employees. This culture provides comfortable working
conditions to each employee by arranging their preferred offices. This freedom given to them
increases their efficiency and leads to the success of the company. Employees at Google are also
given the freedom to work on their chosen project which helps them deliver better results and
this is related to the Google culture. Task culture denotes an organizational culture that is based
on the team performance. In such organizational cultural teams are formed accordingly in order
to achieve the targets or in order to solve the critical problems. This culture allows the
participants or the employees of the Google company the opportunity of the equal contribution in
order to accomplish the assigned tasks in an innovative manner.
Organizational power
Organizational power is the ability to influence other people for getting results [ CITATION
EHo17 \l 1033 ].Power helps in developing a direction towards organizational goals.
Types of organizational power
Within an organization, there are five kinds of power structures:
1) Reward power
2) Coercive power
3) Legitimate power
4) Expert power
5) Referent power
Importance of Organizational power
Power is responsible for ensuring employee commitment and compliance within the
organization. This helps avoiding resistance and increasing productivity to ensure that employees
coexist harmoniously.
Power impact on Organizationalbehaviour
Positive power is a term in which higher authorities use their power positively and treat
employees impartially, whereas top management in negative power sometimes show favouritism
and promote only their favourite employees.