Understanding and Managing People in Organizations

UNDERSTANDING AND
MANAGING
PEOPLE IN
ORGANISATIONS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3
MAIN BODY 3
Overview of the company (Google UK ltd.)...........................................................................3
Critical analysis of organisation’s (Google UK ltd.) culture, politics and power...................3
Theories of motivation.............................................................................................................4
Reflection.................................................................................................................................5
Effective and ineffective team.................................................................................................7
Team development theories.....................................................................................................7
Belbin theory.....................................................................................................................7
Tuckman theory.................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION 10
REFERENCES 1

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour reflects the behaviour of individual in order to modify the
occupational performance, profession gratification and encoring the leaders as well as
subordinates of the firm. The present report will examine theories of motivation a leader can
use in the Google company of UK to achieve the goal of company. It analysis how company’s
culture, political and power influence behaviour within firm.
Furthermore, the study will highlight appropriate team and group development theories
in order to support the expansion of dynamic teamwork. Along with this also shade a light on
hove the organizational behaviour of the organization influence in positive as well as negative
manner.
MAIN BODY
Overview of the company (Google UK Ltd.)
Google UK Ltd. has its main source of income from doing advertisement associated with its
online mapping, internet search, office productivity, email, social networking & video sharing
services. It is a search engine. It is a private limited company having its registered office in
London. It is mainly into the provision of web — based business services. It serves its
customers all across the globe. It is operating in an information technology services industry
and its sub — industry is media while its sector is communication sector. It is incorporated in
April 2000.
Critical analysis of organisation’s (Google UK Ltd.) culture, politics and power
Organisational culture reflects the overall conduct of an organisation. It involves plans and
implementation of rules, regulations and policies within organisation. The different aspects of
employee’s performance and behaviour also gets included in it which gets affected in both
negative and positive way due to prevailing different culture (Atkinson, 2021). Values, vision,
systems, beliefs, habits, norms and language are all form part of an organizational culture.
Impact of organizational culture on individual and teams
With the adoption of different culture in strong culture reflects that employees are
similar along with having views and ethical values that are common. Alignment of business
goals with ethical values proved to be successful in team building which established honesty
and trust among one another. Also, culture is meant for transforming self-interests of an
individual into something which is greater and matching the goal of an organisation. When
there is positive culture within an organisation, then this would result in positive bonding
among team members, better understanding can be developed among team members helping
employee to motivate themselves and build their confidence level which in turn reflects in an
individual team member. If any employee is feeling demotivated, then other employees within
Google encourage & inspire that employee which makes an employee motivated and the
whole team goals becomes achievable. Therefore, if there is a good organizational culture, it
will lead to change in the ethics & perspectives of an employee which results in encouraging
one member to another in Google UK limited for helping each other. Organisation culture of
Google UK gets affect with the any sudden change implemented in their day to day working
environment which leads to poor productivity and performance of individual employees
within the organisation. Also, the prevalent culture is such where each and every
extraordinary efforts of their employees gets recognised on time.
Impact of politics on individual and teams