Influence of Organizational Culture and Power Politics on Organizational Behaviour at Google

Organizational
behaviour
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Influence that culture of the organization and power politics have on performance of
individual and behaviour of team...........................................................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................6
P2 Evaluation of different theories of motivation namely content and process theories and
techniques of motivations that enable achievement of objectives in an effective manner.....6
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................9
P3 Difference between effective and ineffective team..........................................................9
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................13
P4 Concepts and philosophies that affect behaviour in an organizational set up.................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................16
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Introduction
Organizational Behaviour is a multidisciplinary field that governs behaviour of
individuals in an organizational setting (Kitchin, 2017). It reflects the principles that a business
uses to make its operations more effective not just from business point of view but from societal
point of view as well. Organization's environment, structure, culture and communication channel
determine the behaviour of individual in an organization. This is taken as guide to adopt diverse
leadership styles and motivators to effectively manage the difference between variances in
reactions of different people in different situations.
This report is undertaken to take a look on influence of culture, politics on effective
organizational behaviour of Google LLC (herein after referred to as Google). It is headquartered
at California, US. Company provides specialist services related to internet and offers products
such as search engine, cloud computing, online advertising, etc. Also, demonstrated below is
how various motivational techniques and theories are applied by Google management to
empower its teams of employees to achieve organizational goals.
Task 1
P1 Influence that culture of the organization and power politics have on performance of
individual and behaviour of team
Organizational behaviour includes the study of areas that involves researches on
increasing job satisfaction and performance. It promotes innovation and encourage leadership
(Mittal and Dhar, 2015). Google started its operations in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as
a search engine but gradually became so diverse in operations that it was becoming difficult to
manage everything together. Organizational behaviour and culture was getting cumbersome. It
was then decided by management to create a parent company called Alphabet under which all
the google brands can develop independently. Alphabet name was chosen very carefully to stress
importance of having positive organizational behaviour in company's values. In the words of
Sergey Brin, co-founder of google, umbrella company was named Alphabet for, alphabets
represents collection of letters that forms the basis of a language, which is one of the most
important innovation in history of mankind and the core of indexation of google search
(Examples & Illustrations of Positive Organizational behaviour, 2018)
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Influence of organizational culture
Organizational culture is formed by all norms, values, beliefs and assumptions that are
practised in a company to bring it operations under stable control (Evans and Tucker, 2015).
Google's mission, vision and values Mission of Google is to organize the information found all
over the world and presents it in a useful form which is universally accessible. There are
different theories of organisational culture. One such is presented by Charles Handy. He defined
four different kinds of culture which are listed below: Power culture – In this kind of organizational culture, power is assumed between few
individuals who decide what and how things will happen in the organization. Role culture – Organizations with this kind of culture works according to the rules
written in organisational structure and behaviour. Such organizations have stringent
hierarchical bureaucracy within a highly defined structure. Task culture – This culture is formed in organizations which primarily works in project
specific teams. Primary focus is on completion of project and thus, power keeps shifting
within the mix of the team members depending upon the expertise required.
 Person culture – These are organizations where individuals come together to work in an
organizational space but relies mostly on their professional capabilities. For example,
lawyers, architects, etc.
Google is a multinational company which shifts from role culture to task culture. It
operates in multiple business environment and is well aware of the cultural-differences among
the employees it employs. It is a company which operates in digital space and understands the
influence of globalization on organizational culture in uniting the business environment as one.
Another model is Hofstede model, according to which there are five factors that influence
workplace culture: Power Distance – It refers to the power delegated to employees to perform tasks
(Fernando, 2018). Google provides complete freedom to its employees to take decisions
regarding to the tasks attributed to them. Masculinity vs. Femininity – This refer to difference of value males and females bring to
an organizational culture. Google treats both the sexes as same in culture. Individualism – Some organizations rely on individuals rather than teams. Google
believes in working in teams.
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