Impact of Culture and Structure on Organizational Behavior: A Report

This report provides an analysis of organizational behavior, focusing on the impact of organizational culture and structure. It defines organizational culture as a system of shared values and beliefs that influence behavior within an organization, highlighting different types of organizational cultures such as role culture, task culture, power culture, and person culture. A comparison is made between task culture at City College and person culture at Enterprise, detailing the advantages and disadvantages of each. The report also examines organizational structure, discussing functional and divisional structures, and comparing the departmental structure of City College with the flat structure of Enterprise. Furthermore, it explores how organizational structure and culture affect business performance, emphasizing the importance of their interconnectedness in motivating and satisfying employees. Finally, the key factors influencing individual behavior within an organization, including personality and perception, are discussed. The report concludes with a list of references.

TASK 1
organization behavior
LO1 = LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3

Meaning of organization Culture
 It is regarded as a system of shared values, assumptions and beliefs which
regulates how the people behaves within an organization
 These are values and behaviors which contribute towards the social or
psychological environment
 It defines the guidelines and boundaries for the behavior of the members of the
company

Different types of organizational
cultures
 ROLE CULTURE
 TASK CULTURE
 POWER CULTURE
 PERSON CULTURE

COMPARISON BETWEEN CULTURES
Task culture in City College
 The duties and roles are allocated as per the individual
requirements of departments
 Awareness among every department about what is to be done
 The responsibilities are completed on the decided schedule

 Advantages-
 Helps in stabilizing the operations of the business.
 Increases the productivity of the employees
 Promotes talent and skills of the employees
 Disadvantages
 It can be assessed that task culture is not at all appropriate at the time of
emergency situation within workplace and also where autocratic leadership style
is undertaken by individual.

Person Culture at Enterprise
 The open door policy is practiced at the organization under which
all employees are invited to make their contribution
 Democratic style of culture is practiced
 Charismatic
 style of leadership is followed.

Contd...
 Advantages-
 It encourages individual to attain desired targets.
 It directs them to achieve set goals.
 Disadvantages
 It obstructs management to make crucial decision in order to
make effective decisions.

Organization structure
 It talks about the power, roles, responsibilities and authorities
within an organization
 It also discloses the ways in which the work is organized

Types of structures
 Functional structure
 Divisional structure

Comparing City College and
Enterprise's structure

City College
 Departmental structure is followed
 Divided into different departments like human resource,
administration etc
 Issue related to bureaucracy can be seen easily
 Every department has its own issues