Organizational Behavior Report: Culture, Motivation, and Performance

This report provides an in-depth analysis of organizational behavior, specifically focusing on A David & Co Limited, a food and beverage firm. The report explores how organizational culture, politics, and power dynamics influence individual and team performance. It delves into various motivational theories, including content and process theories such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Vroom's Expectancy Theory, and how these theories can be applied to enhance employee motivation and achieve organizational goals. Furthermore, the report examines the characteristics of effective and ineffective teams and applies philosophies and concepts of organizational behavior to practical business situations within A David & Co Limited. The analysis covers key aspects of leadership management, including how to foster a positive work environment and improve overall business outcomes. The report uses a framework of analysis to connect the concepts and theories with practical applications.

Organizational Behavior

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyses A David & Co Limited culture, politics and power influence individual team
behavior and performance......................................................................................................3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effective achievement of goals
in A David & Co Limited.......................................................................................................5
LO3................................................................................................................................................10
P3 An Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team....................................................10
LO4................................................................................................................................................12
P4 Apply philosophies and concepts of organizational behavior within A David & Co Limited
and a given business situation..............................................................................................12
CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior is study about behavior of human in the settings, the interface
between the organization and human behavior and the company itself. The main objective of
organizational behavior developed the best conceptualization of company life. Organizational
behavior influence the business to development in the different areas such as economic,
sociology, engineering according to the experience.
This report will describe about the David & Co Limited organization that influence the
team or group, individuals and increase their performance towards the goals and achievements.
This organization is related the Food and beverage firm. They provide the best quality of food
products in marketplace (Van Knippenberg and Hogg, 2018). The assignment will discuss about
the different motivational theories and techniques which is helps for achieving their goals and
objectives. This report will apply the various philosophies' concept according to the requirement
of organization.
LO1
P1 Analyses A David & Co Limited culture, politics and power influence individual team
behavior and performance
Organizational culture is defined as assumptions, values and different way to interacting
that contribute towards the psychological environment and social culture of organization. The
culture of every organization depend upon their experience, philosophy and attitudes, customs,
attitudes, written etc. A David & Co Limited is the organization which allow the employee to
take their own decision and developing a new idea for growth and development. The
organization adopt culture is change the action of business. Being a Manager, there are many
responsibilities to manage the business operations and functions in proper manner. HR Manager
will communicate with the staff member at their workplace and maintain the relationship
between employee and management (Lazaroiu , 2015). A David & Co Limited is following the
specific structure of business to provide the information regarding the business process and
projects. The politics is the best way to determine the violence, resources in the society etc.
Power is the ability that is main part of firm that could be provided by the organization. HR
manager has power to take right decision regarding the business development. They are
influence the employee towards their specific goals and achievements.

There are three important factors of culture that is affect the individual performance and team
behavior discuss in following:
Influence of culture-
The Power Culture- A David & Co Limited is mostly concentration for enhancing the
business all over the world. The manager has more responsibilities to manage the entire business
process. It is affect the culture is that when there are only few people has skill and knowledge for
taking the decision. If manager misuse their power at workplace then it will produce negative
results in various terms such as the employee will feel demotivated, do not completed their work
on time. Thus, it will create negative environment within business which will affect the business
goals and objective effectively and efficiently.
Leaders of the organization influence the culture of company because they provide the
facilitates to their employee and they look the need and communicate with the staff member , if it
required for changing the working environment. Some times, Most of the employee doesn't
change their habit which is not good for the organization. Leader can not be change the habit of
people if they are not taking as serious. Corporate culture is based on the new term and fully
define in term of business process (Belschak, Den Hartog and Kalshoven, 2015). Organization
culture depend on the working environment, values, attitude etc. A good company always attract
to the talented people and recurit The pillars of organization are employee and leader which has
capabilities to handle the business situations in effective ways. The culture of A David & Co
Limited suitable in order to change the style of firm and divided the specific departments or
performing different tasks.
Influence of Politics-
Demotivate Employee- Politics is a major issues which demotivate top their employee
towards the tasks which affect the business activities. In A David & Co Limited, it also decreases
the productivity and profitability of organization. It is directly create a negative impact towards
the firm and their culture.
Incorrect information and pressure- The wrong information is affect the business
process and it reduces the effectiveness of the organization which is important for A David & Co
to manage their information in proper manner. Individuals employee are not believed to share
their important information because they fear about for leaking the information.

Influence of Power-
Power is the main part of organization which provide by the HR Manager, they have
special power to manage the entire business process in effective ways. Manager and Leader are
the important person in order to control the business activities in proper ways. It is beneficial for
enhancing the performance of individual and tam behavior to achieve their goals and objectives.
Impact of politics on the performance of both individuals and teams.
Politics are significantly impacts on the performance of individual in the organization
because it has highly unstable economic conditions and also become the vital for employee to
enhance their performance professional career. Individual can response to the situation on the
basis of perception.
On the other hand, Politics refers to the behavior of team which directly impact on their
performance in business but sometimes, it affect the performance of team due to the culture and
communication between employees.
Impact of power on the performance of both individuals and teams
The impact of power depend on the whether individual use the positive and negative
power which influence other in workplace. It may directly influence those who has power to
decided the overall culture and structure of organization.
On the other hand, it also influence the team or group at workplace that help to solve the
problem and support to increase the productivity or profitability in marketplace. It directly
impact on the performance of teams to enhance the capabilities towards the achievement.

LO2
P2 Theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effective achievement of goals in
A David & Co Limited
There are some important motivational theories and motivational technique discuss in following:
Motivational theory-
Motivational theory is the concept which describe the activation of objective oriented behavior in
the humans. Motivational theory is mainly focused on motivate the employee towards their goals
and achievements.
Content and process theories of motivational:
Content theories are mainly deals with the motivation where it motivate the people and
concerned with the needs and goals. On the other hand, process theories deals with the process of
motivation that concerned about that how motivation occurs.
Content theory- Content theory is mainly focused on identify the need and requirement
of employee and team behavior (Leana and Meuris, 2015). Content theory is also known as need
theory and they always try to identify the requirement and relate to the motivational to fulfill
their need. For Example- Maslow's Hierarchy, Alderfer's ERG Theory etc.
Process theory- Process theory mainly focus on motivate to their employee and how they
influence towards the objective. What type of process needed for influence the employees. For
Example- Adam’s equity theory and Victor V room's expectancy theory etc.
Evaluate process theory in A David & Co Limited:
A David & Co firm is mainly used the process theory that help to motivate their
employee towards goals and objectives. It is important for implementing the motivation between
the employee because they always encourage to handle the task through the capabilities.

Content Theory:
Maslow- hierarchy of needs and requirement-
Maslow's is a motivational theory which apply in the business operations and functions
for achieving the goals and objectives. This theory will discuss about the important motivating
factors that is helpful for manager to understand the need and requirement of employee in order
to motivate the employee towards the goals and objectives (Gagné, 2018). Maslow is the best
theory because it can be explain the different level of human behavior, physical need and humans
psychological etc. this theory is useful for the manager to motivate their staff members.
Maslow's Hierarchy need to relate the organization behavior and theory because of
motivational of worker, provide high job satisfactions and better managerial practices etc.
Illustration 1: Motivational Theories
(source : Motivational theories, 2017)

Physiological needs- In this stage, this level identify the basic requirement of human
being for surviving such as food, water, air etc. Maslow theory is emphasized the human to
fulfill their need and requirement of body (Graham Ziegert and Capitano, 2015). Psychological
dominant need of every human beings which is required for development. This stage will
motivate the human to fulfill their need. For example- Homeostasis, water, breathing and foo
item etc. Maslow's theory is also includes the sexual reproduction is adding in the level of
hierarchy need because it is necessary for the progression and species.
Illu
stration 2: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
( source: Author's of own Figure, 2017)

Safety and security- This is the second level of Maslow's hierarchy of need because this
level is required for safety and security because these are prime factors. Safety and security are
main part of each and every people because most of the people looks less important than safety.
The employee of A David & Co Limited has followed some basic safety and security such as
Financial security, safety against the injury and accident, health and wellness etc. these are
important need which required for every employee in the organization (Kooshki and Zeinabadi,
2016). A David &Co limited organization provide many facilitates and services to their
employee regarding the medical insurance, health care, opening the account etc. All the
important things are motivated to the employee towards the health and safety.
Social need- Maslow's hierarchy includes the social need such as acceptance belonging
and love etc. this level needed for the emotional relationships towards the people and it is a part
of human behavior. Some of essential need satisfy this need such as family, social group,
religious firm, friendship and community etc. In A David & Co Limited, the employee of the
organization communicated with their colleagues to share the personal information and now they
are becoming friends. It is very important to maintain the good relationship with the friends,
families, colleagues etc. In this way, they are creating the best working environment in order to
avoid all the issues like loneliness and depression etc.
Esteem Needs- This is the fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy while esteem needs plays
important role to prominent in motivate employee towards their behavior. At this stage, the
employee will gain the importance, respect towards A David &Co limited. They provide the
appreciation according to their performance towards the organizations. HR Manager will
encourage the employee to participate in the professional activities such as personal hobbies,
academic accomplishments, Team and athletic etc. The employee has build confidence level to
achieve their self-esteem which required for organization.
Self-Actualization Needs- This is last level of Maslow hierarchy need which described
the potential of employee and they are realized the actual potential towards the organization. A
David & Co Limited provide the training and development program so that the employee
identify their capabilities and potential. It is important for employee to understand the self
actualization and it is continuous process for improvement and progression.

Process Theory
Vroom's Expectancy Theory-
Vroom's Expectancy Theory developed by the Canadian professor in 1964. This theory is
based on the formulas such as Motivational Force= Instrumentally*Expectancy *Valence.
Expectancy- This theory is based on the employee to put their own efforts towards
objectives and also maintain the good relationship and performance. The theory discuss about the
efforts of individual people and they are believed in the hard work to increase productivity and
profitability of company in marketplace.
Instrumentality- According to this theory, it concludes that An individual person believe
that there are some connection between the activities and objectives. A David & Co Limited, The
organization provide the reward to their employee according to their performance and
management (CastilleBuckner and Thorough good, 2018). They provide the incentives according
to their performance and speed towards the tasks.
Valence- valence is also known as certificate which provided by the organization, A
David & Co Limited, this organization provide the reward to their employee for his best
performance. The organization will help the employee to increase their capabilities towards the
tasks. The firm mainly focused on increasing their business all over the world.
Motivational Techniques-
Motivational techniques are important for the organization in order to develop and
improve the performance of staff member towards their goals and objectives. These techniques
are helping the organizational to create peaceful and positive environment for the employee at
their workplace. In this way, it will increase their profitability and productivity in marketplace.
Motivational is provided the training and development program for employee to improve their
performance and providing the challenging tasks for employee. Management of A David & Co
Limited organization is responsible for encouraging and inspire towards their desirable goals and
objectives (Latham, 2016). The organization always motivate or influence their employee to
develop skill and knowledge which is beneficial for company as well as personal. A David & Co
organization use motivational techniques for encouraging the employee discussed in given
below:

Incentive and rewards- Reward and Incentive is the medium to influence or motivate the
employee towards their goals and achievements. A David & Co Limited provide the rewards
according to the performance and efficiency of staff member. This is essential for company to
increase their ability of employee towards tasks and achieving their goals and objectives.
Incentive and rewards are increasing the business popularity in marketplace because the
employees are increased their speed and efficient to complete their task on time. Most of the
employees are attracted towards the incentive so that it has to be achieve their goals and
objectives. In this way, A David & Co company will increase their productivity and profitability
due to increase the employee skill and speed which are beneficial for the company as well as
personal.
Challenging task- After motivation, the employee feel free to complete their tasks on
time. They are putting more efforts towards the development process. A David & Co Limited
organization face many issues and problem at the time of business development therefore, it is
required for manage the business operations and function in proper manner (Lindebaum and
Jordan, 2014). The organization will hire the efficient employee those who has capabilities to
manage the operations and activities in effective ways.
Regular supportive feedback- HR manager is main role playing in the business
development process because they always encouraging the employee to increase the performance
towards the target and objectives. The employees of organization are generating the positive
feedback towards the achievements. Manager will help the staff member to improve their
efficiency towards the tasks. Inspiration and motivation are important elements to play important
role in the business development.

LO3
P3 An Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team
An Effective team encourage their employee towards the objective and discussion on the
particular project and topic. Some times, they are using the healthy conflict introduce the
creativity and always implements new idea for growth and development. An effective team
always motivate their other staff member to develop their skill and knowledge. They have
following characteristics describe in given below:
Open Discussion- All the members of organization are participated and contribution to
give their suggestion for growth and development. This group discussion is very important
because in this way, it easily understands the opinion and view point towards the organization.
After discussion, they are reached the final decision which is beneficial for the organization.
Situational Leadership- this is an effective leadership style which may lead the group by
Manager because they have efficiency to manage the entire business process in proper manner. A
David & Co limited organization, this firm is using the different leadership style according to the
requirement of situations. This leadership style is based on the situation and conditions.
All the employee has common goals and targets so that they are performing different role and
responsibilities towards the organizations.
Ineffective team or group establish quickly take all decision and some times it is directly
impact on the business activities. Task completion is achieved quickly because all the decisions
are taking by Leaders. The important characteristic of Ineffective groups are described in
following:
Effective Teams
Effective team is manage the business operations and functions in effective ways. They are
discussing with their staff member to take their own opinion and view point and then after
reached the final decision.
The effective team establish their own goals and their main purpose to establish a strong team,
fully energetic person and talented. The effective team always focus on their targets and
achievements. A successful business team always increasing their productivity and profitability