BBC Organizational Behaviour: Culture, Teams, and Motivation Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of organizational behaviour within the BBC, focusing on the impact of culture, power, and politics on individual and team performance. It examines the earlier organizational culture within the BBC as observed by the Smith review, utilizing Handy’s cultural typology. The report critically analyzes how culture, politics, and power influence behavior, and explores the application of content and process theories of motivation to improve team effectiveness. Furthermore, it identifies different types of teams within the BBC, explains the factors contributing to effective team performance, and suggests how team performance and productivity can be improved using organizational concepts like path-goal theory. The report also addresses the main barriers to effective performance within the BBC, providing a thorough evaluation of organizational behaviour concepts and philosophies.

ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR
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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................4
Task 1................................................................................................................................5
P1.a. Using Handy’s cultural typology (1986) or an alternative academic cultural
model, identify and discuss the earlier organizational culture within the BBC, as
observed by the Smith review........................................................................................5
P1.b. How has culture, power and politics affected the behaviour within the BBC in
the recent past and today?............................................................................................7
M1-Critically analyze how the culture, politics and power of an organization can
influence individual and team performance...................................................................8
TASK-2..............................................................................................................................9
P2.a. Provide examples of how content and process theories of motivation, along with
other motivational techniques may have helped to improve the effectiveness of the
teams within the BBC.....................................................................................................9
P2b. How will improved levels of motivation within the BBC help to achieve its
organization’s goals?...................................................................................................11
M2-Critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective
application of behavioural motivational theories, concepts and models.....................12
D1-Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics and motivation that
enables teams and organizations to succeed in providing justified recommendations.
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Task 3..............................................................................................................................14
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P3.a. Identify and explain the different types of teams (you must include functional,
problem-solving and project and virtual teams), within the BBC and why having
different types of teams is important............................................................................14
P3.b. Explain what makes an effective team in the BBC. In answering this question,
you should relate to an appropriate theory such as Tuckman and Jensen’s model of
team development and/or Belbin’s teamroles..............................................................16
M3-Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the
development of dynamic cooperation..........................................................................18
Task-4..............................................................................................................................19
P4.a. Using an appropriate organizational concept/theory (such as path-goal theory)
suggest how team performance and productivity could be improved within the BBC.19
P4.b. What have been the main barriers to effective performance within the BBC?. .20
M4-Explore and evaluate how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence
behaviour in both a positive and negative way............................................................21
D2-Critically analyze and evaluate the relevance of team development theories in the
context of organizationalbehaviour concepts and philosophies that influence
behaviour in the workplace..........................................................................................22
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................23
References:......................................................................................................................24
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Introduction
Organizational culture gives a pattern in employee's working in the organization. Both
positive and negative effects are obtained through the culture maintained at the
workplace in the employee's performance. The culture of the organization will help the
employees to achieve various objectives of the organization. The efforts of employees
are appreciated by leaders and others in the organization to encourage them. This can
be done in various ways, rewarding the employees to motivate them and others for a
profitable result. Power and politics influence the organization in different ways as they
are a major factor to provide a management and leadership quality in the organization.
It includes the employees, capital, resources, time and authority for an effective working
among the teams. This report is based on Case study of BBC and in this examination
need to be done on the impact of politics, power and culture on the behaviour of others.
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Task 1
P1.a. Using Handy’s cultural typology (1986) or an alternative academic cultural
model, identify and discuss the earlier organizational culture within the BBC, as
observed by the Smith review.
In reference to Handy’s cultural typology there are four types of cultures:
Power Culture:
Power culture will influence the organization by quick decision even if it is not favourable
for the organization in long terms. The power used in negative aspect can be judged as
the leaders of organization do not give importance to employee's ideas or work
(Fernando, et. al., 2018).
Task Culture:
It includes the different individuals having different abilities which can be used in a
collaborative form for completion of a particular task. In this culture, the leadership is
distributed to every individual according to the need.
Figure: Handy’s Four classes of culture
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Source: (Tutor 2 U, 2018)
Role Culture:
It will help the BBC organization to extract best results from the employee. This culture
helps the employee to decide on accepting the challenges and perform it with better
results.
Person Culture:
The employees working are more concerned about themselves rather than the
organization making the money for their life. The organization suffers from lack of
management by the employees working for the same organization (Tutor 2 U, 2018).
Culture with BBC
The culture followed with BBC at the earlier time was of power culture. The manager of
the organization thinks that he is the sole of the organization to make decisions. The
culture followed continuously for several years. This type of culture made the negative
impact on the organization. This downcast the cultural values of the workplace at BBC.
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P1.b. How has culture, power and politics affected the behaviour within the BBC
in the recent past and today?
The power, culture and politics influence greatly the behavior within the BBC that are
analysed below:
Impact of Culture:
The culture of an organization makes the shape, structure and drives the behaviour of
the organization in a particular format. The culture of BBC elaborates the importance of
the working done by it making the values of company shown to each and every
individual.
Impact of Politics:
As the culture followed by BBC is Power and Politics. There is a worse impact of politics
on the organization. This culture degraded the environment at workspace as well as the
relationship among employees and senior authorities. Organization’s leaders took a
decision by himself, no matter it will benefit organization or not. It declines the
performance and works quality of individual or the organization. If the politics is done in
a positive way then it will encourage the productivity of the organization and make the
understanding of the employees easy (Wilson and Fiona, 2018).
Impact of Power:
The power in the organization gives a condition for employees to make their decisions
beneficial to the organization. But on the contrary, in an early year at BBC, the leaders
or senior authorities did not respect their employees so basically, they misuse their
power and position. This type of culture adversely affects the morals, the inspiration of
the employees and adverse effect on employees as well as on BBC was seen ( Wilson
and Fiona, 2018).
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M1-Critically analyze how the culture, politics and power of an organization can
influence individual and team performance.
The politics, power, and culture treated in a positive way will influence the performance
of the individual and team in BBC. The positive approach will make a better
understanding of the tasks given to the team or the individual. It will enhance
productivity and stability of the organization by improving the relations of an individual
with team members. The behaviour of the individual and team can be improved with the
following factors.
At the early times of BBC, the culture was not appropriate. The power and politics
played negative roles in the organization. As manager considered himself a sole
decision maker. Culture, power and politics total denotive employees and team
performance. The negative environment could not cope up with the organization’s
growth. Both power and politics start breaking employee’s expectations and standards
of the workplace. This also broke the team spirit (Hatch, 2018).
Also, at the same time, whole sole decision-making power sometimes beneficial to BBC
as in case of good senior authority if an employee makes the good decision no one can
stop him in doing so. That resulted in changing the work environment at BBC.
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TASK-2
P2.a. Provide examples of how content and process theories of motivation, along
with other motivational techniques may have helped to improve the effectiveness
of the teams within the BBC.
The motivation refers to dedication in something to be achieved within the BBC. The
motivation directly affects the behaviour of individuals along with teams and improving
the productivity of BBC. The work quality of employee increases with the motivation
given by leader.
Intrinsic motivation refers to that motivational stimuli of individuals are coming from
inside and it needs to fulfill the desire so that they can perform the specific task so that
they can attain best results in according to his belief with the system. There are some
examples related to this factor include acceptance, curiosity, independence, order and
power (Vilnai-Yavetz and Levina, 2018).
Extrinsic motivation includes that motivational stimuli of individuals are coming from
outside. The desires can be fulfilled by performing a task which is controlled by outside
source. There are some examples related to this factor include the benefits package,
bonuses and organized activities (Vilnai-Yavetz and Levina, 2018).
The content theories are an essential aspect to identify the basic needs and type of
motivation deals to increase the quality of work. Thus, these theories can't elaborate the
motivating and demotivating aspects for teams or individual in BBC organization. These
theories identify the process of motivation affecting the individuals and teams.
Maslow's content theory [Hierarchy of needs]
It states the basic needs of an employee within BBC which are significant needs to
activate the individual's performance. Sometimes the least satisfactory need becomes
dominant for the employee. As these needs do not motivate but increase eager for the
employee to demand higher needs (Fallatah and Syed, 2018).
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Figure: Maslow's Content Theory
(Source: Tutor2u, 2018)
This theory covers the following needs for an employee within BBC:
 Psychological Needs - Includes basic survival needs of a human such as water, food,
shelter.
 Safety and Security - It consists of safe and secure living with the wellbeing of the
employee.
 Belongings and Love - Employee of BBC also needs to manage social groups relating
to friends and family
 Esteem - The member of the organization should be valued and appreciated by others
(Fallatah and Syed, 2018).
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 Self-actualization - Desire of employee to develop the potential of his/her extreme limit.
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P2b. How will improved levels of motivation within the BBC help to achieve its
organization’s goals?
The managers of BBC should improve the level of motivation among employees so that
they cannot face any issue in attaining the goals and objectives. It helps BBC to
promote the quality of work and produce greater benefits for the organization. It helps
the employees in certain manners like:
 Employee Commitment - Helps in increasing efforts in completion of the given task.
 Employee Satisfaction - Making an employee satisfied working at BBC helps in growth
of the organization in a positive manner (Wilson and Fiona, 2018).
 Self-Development - It helps the employee to develop the motivation to achieve
personal goals.
 Efficiency Development - Employee would make balance betweenthe ability to work
and willingness to perform it in time for the organization benefits.
 Training: The manager of BBC should analyze the need of employees and on the basis
of that training should be provided with the proper planning so that all the requirements
of clients can be fulfilled (Turker, 2018).
 They have to make effective teams so that task can be complete in a best and effective
way.
From the case study, it has been analyzed that hiring cost of staff members in BBC
organization is 27% and when time decrease to hire the employees, then rate also
decreased and it is 21%. This will assist in boosting the productivity and by that
functioning can be enhanced.
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