Organisational Behaviour

This document explores the concept of organisational behaviour, focusing on the impact of culture, politics, and power on individual and team behaviour. It also discusses motivation theories and how they enable goal accomplishment. The case study of Aston Martin is used to illustrate these concepts.

Organisational Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1. ...........................................................................................................................................1
P1. Determine how organisational culture, politics and power that influence to the individual
and team behaviour along with performances............................................................................1
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
P2. Discuss the Content and Process theory of motivation that enables to accomplish the
goals............................................................................................................................................5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................7
P3. Discuss the role of effective team in objective achievement. ..............................................7
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................9
P4. Illustrate the different concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within
organisational context.................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
The concept of Organisational behaviour is the practices of human behaviour as in
individual and group within an organisation. This is only examine in the area of behaviour as in
work environment and determines its impact on the job structure, performances, communication,
leadership and motivation factor (Aderibigbe, Nwokolo and Oluwole, 2019). This study helps to
develop an better understanding of the aspect which motivate employees, increase the
performances level through enhancing the effective training and development.
By determine organisation from automotive industry Aston Martin company, it is a
British independent manufacture of luxuries cars and textiles products firm. It was founded in
1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The main headquarter is located Gaydon, England,
United Kingdom. In this report the topics are considered to be highlight on culture, politics and
power of organisation and how its going to impact to the individual and team behaviour, assess
the content theory and process theory to accomplish the organisational goals (Ahmad and et. al.,
2020). Better understanding of effective team and its influence on ineffective team and at last the
concept of organisational behaviour on the business situation context.
Task 1.
P1. Determine how organisational culture, politics and power that influence to the individual and
team behaviour along with performances.
As every organisation is constantly focuses on their success and internal growth in
marketplace through the impact of culture, politics and power on individual and group people
behaviour in company premises. The short description about these organisation behaviour factors
are as Organisation culture refers to the system of shared values and attitudes which plan to
implement the actions that leads to decrease the overall company's productivity (Balwant., 2018).
The politics defines the interaction of any firm into political parties, some interest
communication groups as well as non governmental etc, that influence the negative influence the
operational activities and makes it complicated to perform and sustain in business or any other
form of environment. Apart of it, the powers to an organisation provides benefits in terms of high
competency of skills, designation, personality influence of individual as effective manner.
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Organisational Culture: It helps to enhance better understanding of particular organisational
culture studies in terms of work, certain rules and regulation, corporate traditions which makes
the work attributes in smooth way. It basically diminishes the factors of unwanted practises that
occurs negative influence in premises. In context of Aston Martin company, the effective impact
of culture can support to identify and better control to the workforce performance as well as
behaviour for internal and external perspectives. Meanwhile, the organisation culture usually
instruct about to developing employees performance as skills and forms a healthy relationship
with subordinates and superiors.
To understand the culture, there is Handy typology theory that consists about four kind of
culture are preceded by an organisation such as: Power Culture: In this factor of culture, the power is authorised by few individual
whose presence and impact in overall organisation premises. Power culture helps to
form a better strong and better decision making by that individual who is holding the
responsibility (Barbaranelli and et . al., 2019). In Aston Martin, the employees
performances get analyse by the superiors, also they allows to their subordinate for
contributing their view points as per to abiding the guidelines and direction of
supervisors. Person culture: According to this culture, the individuals are analyse themselves as
unique and superior in the organisation. An organisation relates with the person culture
is really just a collection of individual who is reliable to be working in the similar
organisation. Employees and other staffs are truly effective, professional and well
trained as they performed in systematic manner. Role Culture: In this type of culture, it highlights the performance and role culture
based that highly controllable where each employee known their duties in organisation
to perform. Similarly in Aston Martin, every person recognize their roles and
responsibility towards their job role. Whereas, the important uses of certain education
credentials, skills and job experiences (Burnes and et . al., 2018).
 Task Culture: In this culture, it is based to having clarity about the job duties perform to
the individual employee to achieve targets and resolve the critical issues. As in Aston
Martin, the influence of Task culture in team member where they optimise the task in
creative way as to accomplish a common objective.
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As above discussion of organisational culture of Aston Martin, the impact of culture in
individual as in learning and commence the working and improvise the confidence towards to
face challenging situations with easily utilisation of their skills and knowledge in very
compliance oriented way. In other hand, the impact of culture in team as it necessary to them as
they need to form effective form of strategic decisions where they have to communicate, solving
the problem in effective way.
Organisational Politics: This term refers the involvement of those activities through which
organisation need to acquire, develop and utilisation of power and other resources that raise
favourable outcomes (Chou and et . al., 2019). The presence of organisation politics in Aston
Martin company is to employee contribution with having objective to procuring overall political
goals that enhance the factor of benefits to the individual as well as team. As the decision taken
and forming of political affairs is control by company's Manager or top level management to
create systematic and positive working environment.
The politics of Aston Martin is having clarity of some important component that
influence to the behaviour and performance which described below: Productivity Reduces: The forms of outcomes generates which creates doubts because
they expanded whole time to measuring their Subordinate working and they distract
from their work. As in Aston Martin, the productivity declines of individual and team
member as employees where they get influenced by superior interaction that leads to
distract from their objective. Not Satisfied with employees: In this scenario, due to internal and external factor that
causes some issue which direct impact opposed into employees performances such as,
not having understanding of objective or unskilled these of factors which generates the
dissatisfaction in working aspects (Griffin and et . al., 2020). As somehow, employees
are faces many issues in performances due to company politics that fluctuates the
organisation culture as well as it demotivate the individual employees morale where it
reduces the efficiency of their working attributes.
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 Spoiling of Environment: In other scenario, politics creates the negative environment in
Aston Martin workplace, as it destruct the relations with peers and with other
colleagous.
As above discussion of Organisational Politics with an Aston Martin perspective where it
is having major impact in individual workforce on their efficiency by having existence of
superior or manager who directs through guidelines which create an impact on Aston
Martin growth enhancing along with its profitability. The persons who reflects their
interest in business politics that brings low impact of action which reduces the work
quality. By adding of politics as in team member is also influenced because of not
follows the decisions or guidelines of superiors. As they are enable to make effective
suggestion that leads to the performance to accomplish the group activities.
Organisational Power: It defines the ability of an company's structure that help to assort the
overall necessity resources in favour of organisational improvement such individual
personality and other sources of resources (Griffioen., Doppenberg, and Oostdam.,
2018). It will create an impact to the behaviour through proper controlling over the
resources where power is mainly utilise for ensuring the compliances along with work
commitment of all workers on Aston Martin company.
According to the French and Raven, Aston Martin can uses the power of mechanism
from five sources that elaborated below:
 Reward power: It is the power which based on the idea that leader can allows to
facilitates the rewards if the leader's people abide all its instruction in proper manner
(Hackett and et . al., 2018). It is having the direct relation with Aston Martin, the
manager able to control the employees remunerations with their reward system which is
required to their workforce.
 Legitimate power: According to this power it highlights about the mutual agreement
and positions where it relates to the authority that is delegated to the member who hold
the position as well as his presence is having a influence of power. As the Managers or
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superiors are holding their position in Aston Martin where they have assigned power to
control and provide the orders to the people.
 Expert power: This form of power defines that it comes from that person who is having
experienced and knowledge about particular position. Similarly in Aston Martin, which
is required to an employees where they can accomplish their goals that generates their
productivity.
 Referent Power: According to this power, it comes from specific leader's characteristics
or traits as well as background where the leader came from. As in Aston Martin, the role
of leader power is measured through his/ her traits or background that creates its
influence in highly effective manner (Jacobs, K. and Manzi., 2020).
In above discussion of organisational power in consideration of Aston Martin, their
internal management follows the Legitimate power where they appointed experienced manger or
leader who has assigned its position on the basis of performance that control overall activities
along with enhance the instruction to the people. The impact of this power to an individual as
they would gain self motivated in the workplace while in Team they will perform the task as per
the instruction provided through mangers or leader.
Task 2.
P2. Discuss the Content and Process theory of motivation that enables to accomplish the goals.
The different types of motivation factor which can be adopted or implies through Aston
Martin to systematic coordinate the efforts of employees for motivation as it describe below:
Content theory of motivation: In this theory it depicts about the motivational theories which tries
to defines what factor which motivates to the people. In business terms, the use of content theory
is describes to understand about the employee needs which provide them motivation factor.
Maslow's need Hierarchy theory: This theory is refers as motivational theory where
psychological it describes about the five tier model of human needs, it often that defines
hierarchical level within a pyramid. According to this motivational theory it will highlight the
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Aston Martin employees basic needs in physiological, safety, social, self esteem and self
actualization perspective.
 Physiological Needs: this need is depicts about the basic needs which essential through
which a person can fulfil its needs like food, shelter, water etc. The needs of employees
must fulfilled by Aston Martin as it is necessary for their survival as well as they can
optimise their work in systematic way.
 Safety Needs: Through this needs it describes about the major security essentials such as
stability and law freedom of fear. The Aston Martin should have to provide a positive and
secure as well as safe environment where all threats must be reduces that could not harm
to the employees performances (Jena and Pradhan, 2018).
 Social Needs: According to the Maslow's this need is leads to next level which generates
the loving, friendly relation with friends, office peers and parents to build love kind of
relationship with them. With the perspective of Aston Martin, they need to provide such
friendly environment where employees get to know each other as well as they could
make a healthy relationship.
 Self Esteem: This needs depicts about self analysation of positive feeling at the time of
accomplishment or involves full of desire that generates good vibes such as self respect
and self esteem indicates and knowledge level. As in perspective of Aston Martin, they
have to facilitates about status, respect and reputation to the employees (Miao and et . al .,
2020). The Achievement of self esteem improves the designation and identity of
individual employees that provides some sort of job satisfaction.
 Self Actualisation: This is a need that indicates the refers of feeling get fulfilled or
feeling personal fulfilment of desires, seeking for personal growth and peak experiences.
To getting attainment of self actualisation needs to provide highest level of motivation to
employees that makes ready to successfully achieved to their goals (Naz and et . al.,
2019). Therefore, Aston Martin, should provide opportunity for personal growth and
development that facilitates positive influence which leads to more success
accomplishment.
Process Theory of Motivation: According to this theory that system of ideas which explains the
different form of variance that related to one or more independent variables which fluctuates the
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entity. The description of Goal Setting theory is considered to understand the role of motivation
in development of an employees with the context of Aston martin.
Goal Setting Theory: This theory was composed by Edwin Locke in 1960, as this theory is
provide the better understanding of about motivation and direction to employees that helps to
instruct about to set a goal which enhance the performance to achieve the challenging goals.
Aston Martin must considered all the goal setting principles which support to form a goal
towards employees work point of view:
 Clarity: It is principle, that describes about goal measurement which is more achievable
in effective manner (Odor, 2018). It also derives about the proper understanding of goal
whose having specific timelines for its accomplishment.
 Challenge: By commence for better development of an individual employee for its goal
which is structured in very difficult manner where employees get to achieve that
highlight to goal. Goal oriented employees are more fascinated with challenging goal
that makes them motivates as well as that enhance the better productivity that motivates
to that particular goal.
 Commitment: To contributes full effort for completing or accomplish the goal. By
sharing of goals with someone else as in the perspective of increase the accountability to
attain the gaol specification.
For above evaluation of two motivation theories in content and process theory, the most
effective theory which implement to Aston Martin in their working premises would be Goal
Setting theory. The impact of this theory in individual as it helps to defines each goals and easily
instruct how to perceive it, as different individual would having different goals (Pan and et . al.,
2018). Moreover, this impact on team, as it is must to having proper goal setting planing when
the work is assigned them as they have common gaols which they need to accomplish. It helps to
their decision making process where it helps to attain the objective with better coordination of
their members.
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Task 3.
P3. Discuss the role of effective team in objective achievement.
The term of Team is having group of individual who works together for attaining of
common objective. Team can be form of two types Effective team and another Ineffective team.
Effective team:This traits of team ensures about the targets should accomplish as per the
given period of time. As Effective are the foundation of every successful organisation.
Ineffective team: This form of team often create of individuals who are not skilled,
discipline enough to carry the responsibility of team objective as well as they are hard to
performs because they have lack of training .
Difference between of Effective and Ineffective team
Effective team Ineffective team
 Effective teams are open to discussion
with high level of participation by
contributing logical suggestions to form
a better decision making (Seong and
Hong, 2018).
 To before approaching any decision a
leader implies votes from every team
member to discuss for their satisfaction.
 They always focuses to their common
goals with better coordination.
 In effective team, the leader makes
ensures about the goal achieving that
enhance better performance.
 Ineffective team is having lack of
agreement and they are not having any
engagement to discuss suggestions.
 As they having lack of decision making
through voting, but somehow a little
efforts of some member can leads to the
team in positive direction (Silberzahn
and et . al., 2018).
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The effective team oppose to the ineffective team as above difference that effective team
is having proper participation of people, having better communication, effective decision making
by discuss and consulting with each team member while all these positive attributes were not
present in ineffective team as they are not shows effective participation, lack of decision making
process etc.
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Tuckman's Team Development Model : There are four stages of team development that are
provided through this model to construct or forming team which will accomplish objectives .
This team theory is design in the context of Aston martin company:
 Forming: It is the first step of theory, that stats about all the people who are link with
the team are introduced with each other evaluation with their skills analysation.
 Storming: Through this steps, the overall contribution are made by Aston Martin that
eliminates the chances of conflicts that improves the effective team balance (Odor,
2018).
 Norming: As in this team all the members of team focuses working like cohesive unit
of skills and knowledge where they received recognition for their performance
deliverables (Pan and et . al., 2018).
 Performing: It is the last stage where the team member get practical chances to
enhance to implies of execute their skills knowledge. As team member puts their
overall efforts and capability to attain the objective.
Task 4.
P4. Illustrate the different concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within
organisational context.
There is a different philosophies and concept of organisation behaviour which can be
assorted by Aston Martin to provide impact and motivates their employees to enhance their
productivity increases as follows:
Path Goal Theory: According to this model of leadership theory based on specifying a
leaders style or certain behaviour which fits best to the employee and working environment in
order to achieve a goal (Seong and Hong, 2018). Aston Martin get to improve the level of
motivation and communication through providing that emphasis on leadership style that creates
more positive and effective competition. Directive leadership: In this goal theory, specific leader instruct to their subordinate
about the task approaching information in terms of process, how task to be accomplish,
time duration of completing the task objectives (Silberzahn and et . al., 2018). Leader of
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Aston Martin also enhance to provide optimum instruction to commencing any type of
project procedure to attain its objectives. Supportive Leadership: According to this goal theory, it refers about the manager or
leader is having traits of friendly approachable of task or amicable nature to support at
the time of task approaching process. Aston Martin must appoint a supportive nature of
leader or manger who guides to employees for attaining overall well-being and human
needs. Participative leadership: it derives about a leader or superior who allows to their
subordinates in decision making activities. By facilitating to employees a leader who
deliberately assigned task and discuss its implication, ideas and innovation with
employees.
 Achievement Leadership: This form of leadership is describes about the goal accomplish
oriented leaders who constantly focus to accomplishment the objective at any situation
(Yuen Onn and et . al, 2018). For Aston Martin, achievement oriented leadership helps to
employees to improve their sigh standard of excellence or seeking to continuous
improvement as well as they will enhance challenging situational goals where employees
get improve their decision making to crack it.
In above analysation of Path goal theory in Aston Martin perspective, as all theory of
leadership plays and important role as well as they are important to leaders because Directive
helps to instruct about how the task to be done, Supportive theory will create an positive
environment as well as support of leader would make the task flexible. To providing platform
where employees share their decision as in form of approaches with leaders and as an
achievement oriented leader would establish high standard to accomplish high traits of goals.
CONCLUSION
As the discussion in overall report of Organisation Behaviour has come to conclude
where the different factor of OB culture, power and politics has been explained by highlight each
on of the factor and how it impact to individual and team employees performances. To analyse
the two main theories of motivation Content and Process where determine Maslow's Hierarchy
Need along with Goal Setting theory, by considering goal setting theory for better company
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productivity as well as also describes how its going to be impact on individual and team
performances to attain effective outcomes. By implies detailed understanding of team with
effective and ineffective team, along with how effective team opposed to ineffective. To
approaching Tuck-man team theory. At last, path goal leadership theory explains with its
importance for organisation leaders and how it will helps to attain the goal of company.
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