Organizational Behavior Report: Leadership, Teamwork, Power & Politics

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of organizational behavior, examining key aspects such as leadership, teamwork, group behavior, power dynamics, and conflict resolution. It provides detailed analyses of various activities, including perception, motivation, and organizational change. The report explores the differences between trait and behavioral leadership theories, discusses strategies for effective teamwork, and analyzes the impact of power and politics within organizations. Furthermore, it addresses conflict management strategies and the effects of organizational change, offering insights into sustaining innovations and cultural considerations. This report provides a comprehensive overview of essential organizational behavior concepts, offering valuable insights for understanding and improving workplace dynamics.

Running head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational Behavior
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Executive summary
In this report, the 8 e learning activities will be solved. The organizational behavior is explained
through the various segments of this assignment. The primary focus that is made on this report
are the leadership skills, team work and the group behavior along with the power and the politics
section.

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Table of Contents
Week 5 Activity Perception.............................................................................................................3
Week 6- Motivation.........................................................................................................................4
Week 7 Activity (Group Behavior and Team at work)...................................................................5
Answer 1:.....................................................................................................................................5
Answer 2:.....................................................................................................................................5
Answer 3:.....................................................................................................................................5
Week 8 Activity (Leadership).........................................................................................................6
Answer 1:.....................................................................................................................................6
Answer 2:.....................................................................................................................................6
Week 9 (Power and Politics)...........................................................................................................8
Answer 1:.....................................................................................................................................8
Answer 2:.....................................................................................................................................8
Answer 3:.....................................................................................................................................8
Answer 4:.....................................................................................................................................9
Week 10 (Conflict & Negotiations)...............................................................................................10
Answer 1:...................................................................................................................................10
Answer 2:...................................................................................................................................10
Answer 3:...................................................................................................................................10
Week 11 (Organizational Change)................................................................................................11

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Answer 1:...................................................................................................................................11
Answer 2:...................................................................................................................................11
Week 12 (Cultures)........................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Week 5 Activity Perception
The Logan movie is a blockbuster because of what the superhero genre has delivered
over the past several decades. The movie is all about a modern superhero and the final act
comprises of the apocalyptic explosions. The fight choreography in Logan feels like it has a fluid
flow and is gorgeous just not like the other computer generated effects. The characters in the
movie can easily be identified with oneself and it is considered a great super hero movie for any
genre. The movie has more echoes and the way it deconstructs the line between the legend and
the hero. The hero in this film is regarded as the Western archetype that has a gunslinger to put
away the six shooters and continues to work on its daily basis. the movie has some fantastic
chasing scenes that is in the second half of the movie and it does not feel like the film stops when
it takes a break to set the pieces that is usually done in any superhero movie. The film of George
Miller at a certain point seems like a road movie when Professor X, Logan and the mysterious
girl drive to find the place called Eden and from this place, the escaped mutants are going to start
over again. The movie has no hyper active editing or overhead the various shots in order to
disguise. The movie can be termed as a game changer and hence is a rare blockbuster in that
aspect. The philosophy and the theme of the film is an important part to note the overly
intellectual and the overwritten part. The action scenes in the movie have a power to connect
with most of the action hero movies.

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Week 6- Motivation
The great workplaces in UK and in Europe motivate and encourage their employees in a
great way that makes this organization prosper. The consultancy in the workplace culture often
provides and delivers external recognitions that help the employees to focus in their work and
maintain a high spirit in the work-field. These organizations in order to become the best
workplace provide access to the level of their engagement and trust that helps in building the
Trust employee index survey. They also review the organizational policy of the HR and make
their practices a bench mark against the other organizations. There is a need to analyze on the
performance of the company as well as the concerned areas that needs to be deeply consultanted.
Some of the opportunities that is provided to the employees make these organizations the world’s
best. A workplace should be something that attract its employees to come to work everyday and
approx it attracts 40% more job applicants than its peers. The best work places have attracted not
less than 92% of its total engaged employees that is in the top quartile of the organisation.

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Week 7 Activity (Group Behavior and Team at work)
Answer 1:
The elements for a successful team work that has been identified by Hackman is to make
small teams that has a consistent membership to minimize the different types of the co ordination
that might take up a lot of valuable time. Some organizations often set project based teams that
needs to be reconfigured by considering the stages of the group development. The team needs to
consider the project based teams and consider the stages of the group development that may
occur before it achieves the full performance. These performances are important in building an
effective team that may have a courageous and an assertive leader who has the power to invoke
the authority even at times when the team resists the direction.
Answer 2:
The other condition that is necessary in making the teams effective is to make a change in
the top management systems that were initially disruptive in making it establish the changes in
order to make a consistent leadership team. Often the result is the excessive turbulence and lack
of the strategic vision. Often it is seen that the more work is done in a compressed way that none
of the employees can accomplish. Hence it is wiser, to consider the best heed of the advice
provided that ensures the team less than the sum of the part.
Answer 3:
The steps that could have been taken in order to make the team avoid the problems that
has been identified by Hackman is to make the team small and minimize the amount of the co
ordination of the tasks. I will make them work in small groups with co ordination amongst each
other

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Week 8 Activity (Leadership)
Answer 1:
The differences between the trait and the behavioral theory is that the later is all about the
rejection that may be the inborn virtue or potential and the later is all about the various
effectiveness that is based on the individual characteristics and the former is about the
effectiveness in an individual characteristic (Clarke 2013). The approaches of the traits are
that it considers the intellectual, physical, social and the personality that helps in differentiating
the leaders from the non leaders. The traits are considered the virtue theory in the leadership that
stresses on a certain set of personality markers that are often set apart from the followers. The
behavioral theory is all about the no born leaders that is trained and can be taught and developed.
The behavioral theory is all about setting goals that needs to be developed by the leaders and the
trait theory is all about selecting the leaders. The trait leaders must possess a certain innate and
inherent quality whereas the behavioral is all about democratic style in the quality. The focus is
on the actions of the leaders in the behavioral theory whereas in the trait theory the focus is on
the mental quality. Both the theories are valid in their own terms in their business fields and it
depends on the quality of the leaders.
Answer 2:
The organizations develop and select an effective leader through ones integrity and good
ethical practices. The good intentions and the morals of the leaders needs to be well lead and
from their face the wrongdoing can easily be caught but confrontation must be held. In most of
the productive organizations it is seen they are typically proactive than their peers when it comes
to development and identification of their effective leaders. People should be encouraged in

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order to develop their full potential powers. Adaptability, communication, relationship building
are some of the common managerial and the leadership success traits. A good example of it can
be to set the employees with proper training and guidance that will eventually help them in their
long run.

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Week 9 (Power and Politics)
Answer 1:
If I were Samantha Parks, I would prioritize the project or the parts of the project to the
delegate by proposing it to the top level executives in order to stay close in the creative core of
the business. That means that there is a need to propose it to the top level of the experts so that
they become a close creative core in their business. Too much involvement should be avoided so
that the management people do not lose their importance and they it will help them in better
understanding of how the business really works.
Answer 2:
Parks can only deal with these concerns when she will not allow all the important
decisions to be taken by the other employees. She can maintain her position by handling all the
important factors and the decisions that might have a greater impact in the organization. She can
make her workload little less by giving the less important work and the decisions to the capable
employees so that those might not affect the organization in a greater way. In this way, the words
said by Parks can also be kept and no misuse of it can be done even.
Answer 3:
The executives needs to control those projects that cannot be handled by the rest
inexperienced employees in the organization. Since the management, people are much more
experienced and have more power and capability than the rest of the inferior employees in the
organization. So, it’s better if the executives try to control the projects and maintain their
authority position. It is good that they have the solo right to control all the projects so that they
can be on the loop for the important decisions so that they can easily be in charge of it.

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Answer 4:
There are some tasks, which should always be done by the top management executives
and should never be delegated to others. There is a need for them to focus on the much important
decisions that will ensure that they can control the functions very well. Anything important with
respect to the organizational point of view should have severe an impact should always be done
by them.