Organisational Behaviour Report: Power, Control, and Culture

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of organisational behaviour, exploring key concepts such as group dynamics, the impact of power and control, and the significance of equality and diversity within the workplace. It critically analyzes how management utilizes control mechanisms, including both positive and negative approaches, and how these strategies affect team members and overall employee behaviour. The report examines the influence of various power structures, such as coercive and reward power, and their implications for organisational performance. Furthermore, it investigates the importance of fostering equality and diversity, highlighting the detrimental effects of discrimination and the benefits of promoting an inclusive environment. The report provides research-based evidence and practical examples to illustrate these concepts, offering valuable insights into effective management practices and the creation of a positive and productive work environment.

Organisational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1. Group & Teams ...........................................................................................................................1
Critically Analysis control in organisation.................................................................................1
Using research based evidence....................................................................................................2
Discuss the ways management use control.................................................................................2
How it affects group or team members.......................................................................................3
How workers respond to in different context .............................................................................4
2. Equality and diversity..................................................................................................................4
Critically Analysis control in organisation.................................................................................4
Discuss the ways management use control.................................................................................5
How it affects group or team members ......................................................................................6
How workers respond to in different context .............................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Structure behaviour is the study of human activity in structure settings and goals. In other
words, organisational behaviour is also influenced by the human nature and system itself.
Further, In the study will also explains about the two topics in order to focus on the power and
control over the work response the first is Group and teams and second one is Equality and
Diversity. In other words, the whole study outline the power and control and how they affect the
overall organisational behavioural challenge.
1. Group & Teams
Critically Analysis control in organisation
Different employees and workers are belongs to different areas in order to perform their
work duties (Abankina and et.al., 2016). However, the personality or cultural clashes might
affect the individual and group performance in different context. A Healthy power control might
affect the overall business environment in positive manner. Organizations has always looking for
the new light or idea to secure the workplace environment. Moreover, creativity and decision
making gets overwhelmed by strict hierarchy and excessive bureaucracy. In order to that, such
negative power and culture affect the team and individual team behaviour which also affect the
behaviour of employees task. On the other side, negative control is the another practice which
make the ineffective environment for the company environment. In order to that, to reduced such
practices Leader of the company should take some effective measures to enhance the
collaborative work performance and leading development goals.
Positive control can help to reduce the negative influences from the company to gain the
competitive advantage. However, the positive control over the employees enable to manage the
working environment and also control the uncertain situation at workplace.
In other words, different organisational control given the different impact on the team
performance. Such as Creative control over the employees can help workers to influence
employees towards the productive performance, where the company more focused on the new
innovation or professional development. This positive control work on Unitarism approach that
helps to contribute with the new management work according to the best approach and long
lasting results. All such practices and growth can help to fulfil the group or individual task to
gain the market opportunity.
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This is the first significant measures that controlled by the company to introduce the
transparency among the employees to maintained at all level to reduce negative power.
Therefore, Collaborative company control can also brings the best results and goals the
main terms and conditions to get out the work opportunity and goals (Organizational control and
Its Impact on Team Performance, 2017). Here, the focus is on marketing and customer services
as these companies often regard user satisfaction as a success metric. Some times this control can
also demotivate employees those are not very efficient as others. So this control affect the
environment in negative manner also create the negative impact on the team members.
Using research based evidence
It has been reviewed by the research that Group team should always need to work like
smarter not harder. Teams are necessary for motivation. Flexibility and learning together for the
beneficial of company growth (Plastico Thursfield., 2015). Organisation should need to provide
group development training to win project. This is helpful for continuous development process.
Employer can also generate
Discuss the ways management use control
Unitarism is the concept which explains that the management and employees are work
together in the mutual concept for the good sack of the organisations. This is the major way for
the management to control the activity influences within the organisation. This approach is the
approach which mainly focused on the human relation that understand the employee needs and
maintained the positive work culture at the workplace. This approach also considered the some
motivation approaches which refers by the the Herzberg, McGregor and Likert. That also
considered the human needs and their satisfaction level of work.
For example Tesco adopts the anti discrimination practices and laws at their workplace
through they get better performance productivity by the hand of employees.
For Example : Google is the leading company that provides different unique ways for
their employees to get high satisfaction level such as open environment, flexibility to work from
remote places. Give equal opportunity to male or female employees etc. so overall such
environment is beneficial for both employer or employees.
However, this has been concluded from the above discussion that how power and culture
affect the overall business organisations and what measures and steps company should need to be
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taken to get out of this situation and control on the situation. However, this situation brings the
different opportunity and task that gives the best approach and long term task (Thursfield, 2015).
Coercive Power is the power which has power to twits the screws to somebody. In other
words, this type of power comes through ability to threaten or punish to someone in order to get
the way for itself. So such power influence the negative environment at workplace due to which
team or an individual can also get influenced by some (Hislop, Bosua and Helms, 2018). Such
kind of power is given the negative impact on the overall company performance.
Reward power is the another effective power within the organizations that motivate team
or groups to perform more better job performance within the organization just to make the food
environment at work control.
In order to reduce the negative influences of both power and control and also which
requires to limit the negative influences on team and group members. All kinds of big
organizations can adopt such good practices to control the workplace environment by some
negative influences Such as employee relations. Unitarism is the best approach to minimize the
negative influential of power and control (Holmes and Stubbe, 2015). By the help of employee
relations which is main focused on to manage the employee relationship and deal with their
conflicts and issues. Employee relation is the best measures to control in the workplace. It also
affect in positive manner and also having the positive environment among the workplace. This
approach also helps to support the performance management and organisational change in
different context.
There are some different ways that Workers respond to corporate culture such as
Unequivocal adherence in which workers focus or believe in the company in terms of mission,
objectives. Strained Adherence is the another ways to respond to corporate culture in which
workers work in long lasting manner as bullshit. All such responds can be done by the workers.
How it affects group or team members
In within the organisation if anybody behave or control management in negative manner
should always be create demotivated environment around the work culture. It can lead
demotivation, lack of confidence and increased employee turnover ration within the company. In
such a manner this brings negative perception among employees or workers which migyt be
wrong for the company.
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How workers respond to in different context
Competitive company control environment creates lots of opportunity and gains for an
individual market opportunity which brings the main opportunity and task. Such control
generally found in those organisation that want to win at any situation. Such control motivates
employees or group that make the different perspective and reduce time cost (Bradley and et.al.,
2015). Overall, organizational control have a different effect on different employees either
positive or negative. This is the measure controllable practices that company could adopt for
maintaining the positive working atmosphere.
Power is the another major term which affect the organisational behaviour and their
employees or teams in both positive or negative manner. Basically, power means which is
measured by the ability to get the things done through knowledge, influence and authority.
Leader are also measured by their ability to perform and get the best outcome results and goals in
order to beet out the best outcomes and goals. Within the organizations there are several power
such as positional, expert, referent, coercive and reward power. That affect in both direct and
indirect manner (Ginnett, 2019). For example: Positional power where the company adopts the
hierarchy control and a person hold power based upon their title and rank within the
organizations. This type of power is the most effective or the team who knows to whom person
needs to inform etc. but in the contrast such powers limit the communication process and creates
the dissatisfied results among group or teams. That leads the demotivation among team and give
the negative results on the overall development process. So overall Positional power might be
create the bureaucracy and hinder an organisations speed to change as well.
2. Equality and diversity
Critically Analysis control in organisation
As per the Equality act 2010 Government has been strictly banned companies to
discriminate employees on the basis of nine characteristics such as Age, Race, Sex, Gender,
Disability, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Marriage and civil Partnership and Pregnant and
maternity.
Equality and Diversity is defining the promoting the equality of opportunity for all people
within the company environment without any discrimination (Noe and et.al., 2017). In terms of
diversity it allows all individual to get chance to achieve their potential and rights. In present
time organizations encouraged to have their own equal opportunity policy. So that such policies
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can help to protect the employee rights while ensuring employee stay on the right side of the law.
Sometimes within the organization where the power can be taken for misuse the authority and
restrict the growth of some selected employees. For example : Some of the organisations where
the senior management team conduct inequality between male or females. Such kinds of
problems generally faced by the multinational companies who deals with different kinds of
employees behaviour. In order to control such negative practices company can adopts some
measures such as fair remuneration policy, equality policies to encourage employees towards the
great performance. All such activities can increases the equality and diversity within the
workplace (Reason, 2016). For example Entrenchment is the practice which is kind of very
rebellion and resistance which gives the negative impact on the diversity. Such kind of practices
make people engage in homophilic behaviour also associate only with people of their own kind.
Such kind of negative power can also creates the communication barriers among all of them and
create the conflicts among the all people.
Discuss the ways management use control
By the help of Equality and Diversity practices within the workforce it can help to make the
good environment for employees and motivate them for the better performance levels. Company
should required to sustained the equal environment so that all employees feel in the same way.
The impact of the these practices over the employees are good and also generate innovative
environment for the company growth.
Negative power and control also influence by stereotype and biases which can be create
more inefficient workplace environment. Such Stereotype people restrict the knowledge by itself
and never pass to other people. Such environment creates the inequality among the working
culture. This power can also creates the disrespect among the employees and influence people
towards the negative path (Rose, 2017). Unhealthy competition that affect the workplace
environment and also influence the other people in different context.
Managing a Equality & Diversity is the main concern for the multinational organisations
such as Apple, Samsung, IBM etc. such big organisations has to maintained their workplace
environment more energetic and innovate to perform the challenging task. But on the same side,
due to power and control employees get influenced in both positive and negative scene. In other
words, Organizations are made up of individuals that practice greater or lesser degrees of power.
Such as power and control keeps changes the overall environment which brings new or different
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opportunity for the people to make the different objectives and goals. In order to maintained the
equality and diversity organizations requires to introduced some leading practices and goals.
Along with that it also helps to bring the different opportunity and task.
However, To control negative power and control practices over Equality and diversity
company should have to take different practices such M&S has to provides equal opportunity for
all employees without consideration of any differences.
How it affects group or team members
However, the overall impact of negative power and control affect the employee nature
and behavioural towards the company commitments. Sometimes, due to less effective and low
managing work environment demotivate the employees confidence and gives the huge impact on
the employees performance of work. In terms of positive way, Diversity of employees can also
involves the positive working environment at workplace by getting different new thoughts and
ideas by the different employees.
How workers respond to in different context
Power and control also increased negative impact by overt conflict or retaliation and
growth different challenges and targets also affect the business terms and opportunities in
different context and different opportunity and goals (Thompson, 2016). Understanding equality
and diversity in the workplace also is the most affecting factor that describes the uncertain
situation among the other people in order to understand the overall and also control the
challenging situational goals.
In terms of positive context, by taking authority and role of power in positive way
management can also influence and encourage equality and diversity in order to motivate
workplace environment. Such as power of language can also controls the and raise the awareness
about language use to how this can foster or detect from a culture of respect and equality in the
organisation. Good power also helps to motivate and generate the fair practices to implement the
organizational opportunity and fair treatment with all other employees.
In order to have the fair practices and also maintained the good atmosphere within the
organisations (Tsohou and et.al., 2015). Companies can use the pluralistic approach to have the
good workplace environment. Pluralistic approach also suggests that there is more than one
sources of power in the relationship between workers and business leaders. Union is the central
approach which maintained the balance between the power with leadership and employees. This
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approach or method can be the fruitful component for the company in different contextual
manner in order to gain the market opportunity and task building performance to maintained the
productive work culture within the company organizations. Learning to understand the workers
perspective helps reduce long term conflict. This makes the target more clear and energetic in
order to analyse the work more clearly and along with the best outcomes goals and opportunity
and into best possible manner (Wilson, 2018). Learning and controlling process can help to
measure the long term conflict. It also influence the long term task and also motivate employees
into the objective and task.
CONCLUSION
As per the above report or discussion it has been concluded that how organisational
behaviour affect the overall workplace environment and performance of employees towards the
accomplishment or work. However, the whole study explained the critical aspects of power an
control and how these factors affect the company team and individual performance. On the other
side, it also discussed how power and control influence the equality & diversity at workplace.
Study explained some measure to get out of the negative the overall situation by discussing the
approaches such as Unitarism and Pluralism. So overall, study concluded the both positive and
negative aspects of organisation behaviour and who those factors influence workplace
environment. However, study measured the several conditions and driven component which can
helps to introduce new activities for the positive work culture.
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