Organisational Behaviour Report: ADIDAS, Samsung, and Team Dynamics

This report delves into the realm of organisational behaviour, examining how culture, politics, and power influence individual and team performance within ADIDAS. It evaluates content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques, assessing their effectiveness in achieving organisational goals at ADIDAS. Furthermore, the report explores the characteristics of effective teams, contrasting them with ineffective ones, with a focus on Samsung's organisational structure. It applies concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour, including the Path-Goal leadership theory, contemporary barriers, and the Social Capital Theory, to the context of Samsung. The report also discusses the impact of technology on organisational teams, the role of virtual teams, and the importance of team development models such as Tuckman's stages and Belbin's team roles. Ultimately, the report provides a comprehensive overview of organisational behaviour principles and their application in real-world business contexts.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1 Analysis how organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance in ADIDAS................................................................................1
P2 Evaluating how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals at ADIDAS................................................................1
P3 Explaining what makes effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................1
P4 Applying concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour in Samsung................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is the study of the way people in an organisation behaves
and interact with others within and outside the company. Further this study is conducted to
create more efficient business organisation and a scientific approach is applied to the
management of workers. However, the rise of globalisation and digital technology and their
influence on people of world have greatly changed organisational culture in 21st century. The
present report is about two world famous companies i.e. ADIDAS is a German multinational
corporation of shoes and sports wear manufacturing and Samsung which is a South Korean
multinational conglomerate of electronic manufacturing. The report will cover the
organisational behaviour and how the culture and politics will influence the team and
individual performance in organisation. Various motivational theories which are divided into
different forms are also included in the report. Different types of organisational teams
including functional, problem solving and project team work together to develop the team
and the individual
P1 Analysis how organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and
team behaviour and performance in ADIDAS.
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P2 Evaluating how content and process theories of motivation and motivational
techniques enable effective achievement of goals at ADIDAS.
Enclosed in ppt.
P3 Explaining what makes effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.
Samsung is age long South Korean multinational conglomerate its headquarter
at Samsung Town Seoul. Samsung comprises numerous affiliated business all united
under Samsung brand like chemicals, consumer electronic, medical equipments, semi
conductors, etc., Samsung is the worlds 2nd largest information technology company in
terms of revenue and 5th largest in market value. For such a large organisation to work
without its employees and dynamic team will an impossible task. (Manser, 2009.)
There are almost 5.5 million employees working under Samsung brand and operating
on worldwide level. It has achieved so much in last 3 to 4 decade just because of the
employees working and the effective management of the company.
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A team is a collective working group of individuals working together to
achieve the organisational goal and the team's goal. There are different types of
organisational team working all together in the organisation despite of different nature
and personal backgrounds (West, 2012). The different types of team include
functional team, problem solving team and project team. This team and team working
effectively cooperate with others in achieving goal of company. In Samsung also all
the staff members working in all countries cooperate with each other and work
together.
 Functional team- The work of the functional team is to do daily functions of
the organisations in Samsung like financing, manufacturing, operations, selling
and marketing and human resource. Functional team at Samsung do the major
work of production and selling of the products and services of Samsung in
every part of the world. This team work together with each other and cooperate
with each other (DeChurch, and Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). Technology has also
impacted organisational teams in playing the role of virtual team development
and networking. As they need to connect with the employees working in
various parts of world and in this networking has helped Samsung very much.
Functional team can now get in touch with all the departments of Samsung in
any part of the world virtually.
For examples: The functional team in Samsung have been in operation and finance
team which will perform the different function in organisations.
 Problem solving team- the function of problem solving team is to detect the
problem within Samsung and then to solve that problem with the team work.
They form a group of effective people who are qualified in their work to solve
the problem at their end at Samsung. This team also develop the organisational
behavioural in Samsung as they work in group to solve the problems of
employee and management as well. There is also the impact of technology on
organisational team and virtual team play important role in development and
networking in Samsung as well.
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For examples: Service team is the problem solving team in Samsung which will be
help to the customer.
 Project team- this team functions for the project development of Samsung and
all the team members of projects usually belong to different groups or functions
and are thus assigned to activities for same project (Capella, et.al , 2010).
Project team flexibly associate users and groups with particular projects in
Samsung who delegate the administrators to work.
A group is a collection of individual who coordinate their individual efforts whereas
team is that group of individual who share common team purpose and number of
challenging goals. Group on a general terms do not have any specific task or goal
which they would like to achieve. But team is set to achieve the group goal and
individual goal as well they share a common interest. One of the main differences
between group and team is that group is two or more individual who are
interdependent in their accomplishment and may not be working in the same
departments. However, the team works together and share the outcomes working as a
team is more difficult than working n group.
Tuck-man's team development model tells how team grow, face up
challenges, tackle problems, find solution, plan work and deliver results which was
propounded by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. In this forming, storming, norming and
performing model of group development is very important and the steps are inevitable
in order for team development (Tuckman and Harper, 2012. All these stages in Tuck-
man's team development model impact on the development of the individual. At the
forming stage of the model all the individuals are very polite and positive and some of
them are anxious as they have not understood the work. In this stage people start
together and as they make an effort to get to know their colleagues they develop
themselves.
In the next stage of storming team and individual moves forward and push
themselves and their team members beyond the set boundaries. At this stage in
starting the individual always fails as there may be conflicts between the individual
and the other team member (Jones, et.al 2009). The third stage is norming in which
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individuals resolve their differences, appreciate colleagues strengths and respect
authority as leader. Norming help to provide feedback and help each other to develop
them as individual. Last stage involve performing which is that part in which an
individual work very hard to lead the team and to achieve organisational goal.
For examples: In Samsung some of the step have been evolved in organisation due to the
norming and forming of team in which conflicts have been arise.
Beblin's typology of role was first introduced by Meredith Beblin in which he
uses a specific language to describe individual role in teams (Meredith Belbin, 2011.).
This is in which how the individuals behave in a team environment and the assessment
is based on 360 degree feedback. There are in total 8 team role like chairman, shaper,
plant, monitor evaluator, company worker, resource investigator, team worker and
complete finisher. These all role of an individual in team are very important for
effective team work.
P4 Applying concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour in Samsung.
As organisational behaviour is the study of the way how people in a certain
group or organisation interact and behave with each others to achieve self and
company's goal (Kinicki and Kreitner, 2012. ). This is being a knowledge base field
including sociology, psychology, communication and management. And
organisational theories are concern with explaining the workings of and organisation
as whole the focus is on the way to understand the structure and process.
Path goal leadership theory is that model which is specification of the style
and behaviour that fits best in employee and work environment to achieve goal. The
goal is to increase the employee's motivation, empowerment and satisfaction so that
the can become more productive (Bagozzi, 2011). In Samsung as well the mangers are
following this leadership theory in the organisation so that they could perform in
productive way. If the individual will be more productive than the team will
automatically perform in a good way. As in the Samsung it is evolve that mistake of
the leader will be cause the communication gap in organisation and in between the
other team members.
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Contemporary barriers to effective behaviour are also important to be learnt
so that the individual can overcome these barriers and perform in a better way. The
barriers are like lack of feedback, lack of immediate consequences, lack of
environment or process support, social proof and lack of autonomy or ownership.
These all are the barriers to individual's effective behaviour and to resist the situation
(Champoux, 2010). And lack of communication is also be taken as the barrier to
effective behaviour as this effects most then any other barriers do. These
contemporary barriers are dealt in Samsung by the mangers so that the individual
employee can perform in a better way. In Samsung such as the leader behaviour have
been affected on the team.
Social capital theory is basically concerned with the nature, structure and
resources embedded in person's network of relationship (Gill, 2014). This is
concerned with the quality of interactions within that network with the conception of
career success and related with work outcomes. As per the Samsung scenario the
social capital theory will be considered when the relation with other team member of
employee will bring the better relationship.
Contingency theory is organisational theory which claims there are no best
way to organize a corporation to lead a company and to make any decision. But the
optimal course of action is dependent upon internal and external situations and in this
form of leadership the leader apply their own style of leadership to the right or given
situations (Statler, Roos and Victor, 2009).
In the philosophy of organisation there are mainly 5P's which are purpose,
philosophy, priorities, practice and projection. Purpose is the centre of organisation as
to why the organisation is set up or why does it exists. Philosophy directs the
employees how do they do their work and how the work matter to employee's. Then
priorities are the source of the distinction of organisation (Childs, et.al 2009). Practice
is derived from the founder or leader or ideals that drove the creation of organisation.
And the last is projection which is changed will alter the character of the organisation.
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CONCLUSION
From this report on organisation behavioural it is clear that how an individual behaves
in the workplace will determine the amount of work and reward that he will get. There
are many types of motivational theories like Maslow need hierarchy theory, Herzberg
two factor theory and Alderfer's ERG theory while process theories consist of
Vroom's expectancy theory, Adam's equity theory of motivation and Latham and
Locke goal setting theory. All these are very important to motivate and inspire the
employee's to work harder. The impact of technology on organisation teams and role
of virtual team development and networking is also there.
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