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Organizational Behaviour

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3a) Dr. Marten's organizational culture with Handy's Cultural typology.....................................3b) Power and political behaviour influence individual and team behaviour and performance...4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6Motivational Theories helped Dr. Martens during relocation to London and defines its culture.....................................................................................................................................................6TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8Effective team in Dr. Martens and team development with Tuckmen and Jensen's model........8TASK 4 ...........................................................................................................................................9a) Path goal theory leadership style............................................................................................9B) Relevant theory for implementing change ..........................................................................10CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTIONOrganizational behaviour is basically study of individual as well as group performance. Itdetermines impact of human behaviour on performance, communication, leadership etc(Kitchin,2017). Present study is based on the company Dr Martens that is a footwear and clothing brandhaving headquarter at Wollaston, UK founded in the year 1947 by Klaus Maertens. Report willinclude Organizational culture by using Handy's Cultural typology and the way behaviour andbeliefs affect ability of organization to turnaround its business. It also includes power andpolitical behaviour that influence individual and team behaviour and there performance. Further report includes different motivation theories helping in restructuringand relocation and also defining the culture of the firm. It also includes Tuck-man and Jensen'smodel of team development to make an effective team in Dr. Martens. Report tells about the waymanagers of Dr. Marten adopted a path goal theory leadership style and the reason to a littleevidence of resistance to changes implemented within Dr. Martens.(Chumg and et.al., 2016).TASK 1a) Dr. Marten's organizational culture with Handy's Cultural typologyHandy defines four types of culture:-Power culture:- According to this power is in hand of few individuals in anorganization, and they influence it to all the parts of the organization. There are somerules and regulations that is being decided by people in power. In every organizationemployees are been judged on bases of their achievements and not on bases of their acts.This culture in the organization is considered as the strongest culture. In case of Dr.Marten's the power culture is stable as HR mangers are working to strengthen theemployees skills and supporting them fully but employees are working individually so ifthey shifted in teams then there may not be a proper coordination(Elsmore, 2017). Role Culture:- Organization having role culture are based on rules and people are highlycontrolled by making them understand about their roles and responsibility towards theorganization. Here the organizational structure is not flat but hierarchical and due to thisreason decision-making is quite slow as they do not take risks. Here power is derivedfrom persons position in the firm. From the case study role culture is stable in the Dr.3

Marten as all employees are aware about their responsibilities, and they believe in theculture of the firm.Task Culture:- This culture is generally form when a specific project have to be done orany problem arises. As task is the most important thing so here power generally shiftswithin the team based on the type of problem. Team can complete the tasks if skills andleadership of the individuals are effective, and they work in team with creative minds.Here team can develop their own objectives and are free to take risks as no single sourceof power is there. From the case study it is seen that task culture is stable in theorganization and all the employees prides on individuality. Organization is having rightpeople and talent and is able to make them work in team to complete the tasks(Majumdar,2018).Person Culture:- Organization with person culture have individuals who see themselvessuperior and it is basically collection of people who are ready to work for the sameorganization. All are getting same training and expertise and each group is having power.Dr. Marten's is having stable person culture, and they have experts that helps there scaleof business. HR managers are giving proper training to all the employees and treat all ofthem in same manner(Majumdar, 2018). From the above analysis it is seen that Dr. Marten's is influenced from task culture and allthe employees work in team with their creative minds. This culture impact the individual as wellas team beliefs and behaviour as all work hard and take risks in solving the problems comingtowards the firm. Over all performance of the team is also affected as they all work effectivelyon a specific project. Team is set free to set their own objectives and make strategy to completethe tasks on time. (Hall And et.al., 2016)b) Power and political behaviour influence individual and team behaviour and performanceThe five forms of power that influence individual and team behaviour are as follows:-Coercive power:- This is form of power where individuals are forced to work againstthere will. This power may leads to many problems as it may threaten social exclusion.This power is positive in terms of punitive behaviour and negatively with conditionalreward behaviour. From the above case study if these power is being used by the leadersit may lead to an unhealthy behaviour in the organization and employees may feel4

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