Organizational Behaviour Activity 2: Structure and Culture Report

This report provides an overview of organizational behaviour, focusing on organizational structures and culture. It begins by describing different organizational structures, including virtual and line and staff structures, highlighting their key characteristics. The report then delves into the importance of organizational culture theory, specifically utilizing Handy's culture theory to analyze different cultural types. These include power, role, task, and person cultures, with explanations of their defining features and impacts on organizations. The analysis examines how these cultural frameworks influence employee behaviour, organizational goals, and overall effectiveness. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and referencing relevant academic sources to support the analysis.

Organizational Behaviour
Activity- 2

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Describing the characteristics of different organizational
structure
 Importance of organizational culture theory
 Conclusions
 References

Introduction
 Organizational behaviour is the study of group and
individual performance in a firm.
 Presentation will describe the characteristics of different
organizational structure and further show the Importance of
organizational culture theory

Describing the characteristics of different
organizational structure
Virtual Organization:
 it is the network of independent firm which joint together in order to
provide best quality of product and service.
 Further, the partners of virtual organization also share the risk, cost and
reward in chase of global market.
 It also represent the structure which are motivated by the specific
market opportunities and they have the ability to create the synergies
among functions.
 Therefore, it also help a firm to use innovative management practice and
develop virtual team with virtual leaders as well.

Continued...
Line and Staff Organizational Structure:
 If the firm follow this structure then they have direct, vertical
relationship between different level and also specialist are responsible
for advising as well as helping line manager.
 Thus, the organization have both line as well as staff department in
which the staff department provide line people advice in specialized
areas such as quality control advising etc.
 Moreover, this type of structure creates better interaction between the
committee members and also leads to better coordination and even a
better group discussion also leads to creative thinking.

Importance of organizational
culture theory
 Culture plays a crucial role in the organization and by using Handy's
culture theory, the importance can be understood.
 The theory is based upon four culture such as:
Power:
 The organization who follow power culture, then the power is held by
just few individuals and even the employees are also judged what they
attain rather than how they do.
 In this, the employees are also expected to take their own responsibility
and identify the task.
 This shows that employees are affected in positive manner such that
they are happy and satisfied with the working condition.

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Role:
 In This type of culture, employees are highly controlled with everyone
and they also know about their own roles and responsibility.
 That is why, HSBC Bank also follow this type of working culture
because it offers security and opportunities in order to acquire specialist
expertise.
 Even employees also know their own roles and responsibility that
helps employees to be happy and comfortable in it.

Continued..
Task:
 In this culture, team are form to attain the specific objective and the
culture is consider quite effective and dynamic.
 In the same way, this culture is followed by quoted firm in order to
produce results.
 But this is not followed by firm because after completing the work, the
team is dismantled and the mutual interaction also diminishes.
Person:
 it is consider an unusual culture and even individual feel themselves as
unique and superior.
 Further, they work for themselves only rather than for company's
welfare.
 That is why, this type of culture is not used or adopted by the firm
because it creates negative impact upon the firm.

Conclusion
 By summing up above it has been concluded that organization culture
affect the HSBC bank.
 Further it has been concluded that the quote firm follows Role and task
culture in order to attain the business goals and objectives.

References
 McAdam, R., Miller, K. and McSorley, C., 2019. Towards a
contingency theory perspective of quality management in enabling
strategic alignment. International Journal of Production
Economics.207. pp.195-209.
 Abraham, W., 2019. The Effect of Organizational Culture on
Employee Commitment (The Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia)
(Doctoral dissertation, AAU).
 Berry, J. W. and Dasen, P. R., 2019. Culture and cognition: Readings in
cross-cultural psychology. Routledge.