a. Utilise Handy’s model of organisational culture and analyse your company’s organisational culture;

In this paper you have to analyze how culture, politics and power can reflect people and team behavior in an organization. Secondly evaluate how content and process theories of motivation techniques enable effective achievement of goals in an organization. Thirdly explain what makes effective team opposite to ineffective team. And lastly apply concepts and of OB organization context and a given business situation.

 

LO1 Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others in an organisational context.

P1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can influence individual and team behaviour and performance

LO2 Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal

P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation, and motivational techniques, enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context.

LO3 Demonstrate an understanding of how to cooperate with others effectively.

P3 Demonstrate an understanding of what makes an effective team, as opposed to an ineffective team

LO4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour to a given business situation.

P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context and a given business situation.

You have been recently appointed as a Junior Business Journalist to a reputed national business magazine. As a first task the editor has requested you to write a 2,500 words article on organisational culture, politics, power and motivation for publication. If you are currently employed, choose your own organisation to research and discuss about the above mentioned topics as a case study. If not, use any organisation of your choice that you have the access for the information. The purpose of the article will be to establish the influence that organisational culture, politics, power and motivation has upon behaviour and performance in the workplace.

Task 1.

Your article will be an overview of your chosen organisation’s culture, politics and power, with relevant examples of how these aspects of organisational behaviour have influenced behaviour in the workplace. It should also discuss how motivational theories and techniques have been applied in your organisation, supported by relevant examples. 1. In your article, you will be particularly required to:

a. Utilise Handy’s model of organisational culture and analyse your company’s organisational culture;

b. Analyse the concepts of politics and power in organisational life, and critically evaluate how culture, politics and power can influence individual and team performance for your selected organisation;

c. Evaluate content and process theories of motivation and how they correlate with the effective achievement of business goals, and consequently the performance of an organisation;

d. Provide an overall conclusion evaluating how the selected organisation can improve the performance of their staff to meet goals.

Following your article, you were contacted by an advisory forum committee of the local chamber of commerce’s which have expressed their interest in your views on team dynamics in an organisation. The Committee is particularly interested in a report that addresses the importance of team dynamics to product management. Therefore, the committee has asked you participate in an activity related to the product development of a new product, and assess how team dynamics can impact the performance of an organisation by writing a 2,000-words report, based on your initial findings, and submit it to the committee.

Task 2

Your report should be based on the Formative Task and address the following:

Section 1

1. Explain the different types of team and analyse the relevance of hard and soft skills for effective teamwork utilising a known framework, such has the Emotional Intelligence.

2. Investigate teamwork theories (for example Tuckman) and their effectiveness.

3. Analyse team dynamics, team members’ roles and behaviour utilising a relevant framework (for example Belbin’s) and evaluate the relevance of dynamic co-operation for effective teamwork in an organisation.

4. Reflect on the team performance of the Formative Task and apply Belbin’s model and assess the behaviour of the participants. 5. Explain what factors are instrumental for teams to effectively achieve their objectives, and identify the aspects, which may threaten successful achievement and cohesive group work.

Section 2

While reflecting on the formative activity demonstrate your understanding of how to co-operate effectively with others, you should:

1. assess the benefits of working in a team;

2. identify the mix of knowledge, skills and experience necessary for a team to fulfil its functions (using examples)

3. discuss the benefits of working in a team as a leader and member towards specific goals

a) dealing with any conflict or difficult situations

b) developing roles during team assignments,

c) reviewing the effectiveness of teamwork in achieving the goals

d) relating the effectiveness of teamwork to achieving goals in the workplace.