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Unit: 12 Organisational Behaviour
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Student name: Assessor name: Ms. Oshini Liyanage

Issue date:13/12/2021 Submission date: 29/01/2021 Submitted on:

Programme: Higher National Diploma in Business

Unit: 12 Organisational Behaviour
Assignment number and title: No:01 / Analysis of Organisational Behaviour

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Higher National Diploma in Business Management

Student Name /ID Number

Unit Number and Title Unit: 12 Organisational Behaviour

Academic Year 2021

Unit Assessor MS Oshini Liyanage

Assignment Title Analysis of Organisational Behaviour

Issue Date 15/07/2020

Submission Date 05/10/2020

IV Name MR Sameem

Date 13/12/2021

Submission Format:

The submission is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in a concise, formal business
style, using single spacing and font size12. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as
appropriate, and all work must be supported with research and referenced using Harvard referencing system.
Provide a bibliography using the Harvard referencing system.
Unit Learning Outcomes:
LO1: Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of
others in an organizational context
LO2: Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal
Assignment Brief and Guidance: Word Count Task One 1500
You are a Junior Management Consultant of ABC management consultant group that helps
companies to improve its performance. Your task is to support an organization of your choice to
improve its culture, to use the power and politics correctly and use the motivational techniques
appropriately. Recently some employees at your selected organization are performing poorly and
the survey shows that majority of the workforce is demotivated and not giving their full effort on
their duties. This has caused distress among the senior management of the selected organization.
As a junior management consultant, you have been asked to prepare and present a report that:
▪ Comparefourdifferentorganizations’prevailingculturethatyouarefamiliarincludingyoursel
ectedorganization, using Handy’s four types of culture model.
▪ Evaluate how the present culture in your organization affects individuals and team
performance
▪ Analyse the causes of politics in your selected organization
▪ Criticallyanalyzehowpoliticsinyourselectedorganizationaffectindividualsandteams’perfor
mance
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▪ Identify the different sources of power in your selected organization and analyze how it
affect individuals and teams’ performance
▪ Evaluate the usefulness of content and process theories (one theory each) in your selected
organization to achieve its goals.
▪ Critically analyze how to influence different people in your organization through the
effective application of motivational theories and OR Leadership theories.
▪ Investigates the relationship between culture, politics, and power from your own
perspective with the findings in the organization, and list down your recommendations
how to influence the behavior of employees through the effective application of ‘Culture,
Power and Politics’ in your organization to achieve better performance with justifications.

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Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO3: Demonstrate an understanding of how to cooperate effectively with

others
LO4: Apply concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour to a given
business

Situation Team work in the office challenges employees to deal with varying opinions, methods
and experience levels. Effective joint projects capitalize on each team member’s strengths with
all members contributing to the final results. As a team member, you may find yourself
disagreeing with colleagues or struggling to cooperate on the project.

Learning to compromise and communicate effectively with the other team members helps you
work productively toward a common goal. The result of effective team work is a finished
product that meets or exceeds expectations.

Conflict in the workplace can destroy good teamwork. When you don't manage it effectively,
real and legitimate differences between people can quickly get out of control, which can result
in an irretrievable breakdown in communication

In your selected company employees work closely with two managers, John and Kayla. John
heads up production, and are eager to buy a machine that will increase her department's
output. Kayla works in purchasing, and is keen to reduce costs. She understands John’s
motivation, but informs her that the organization won't be making any new purchases. This has
created conflict and tension that is spreading throughout the workplace.

Write a report that - Word Count Task Two 1500

▪ Explains effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.

▪ Develop an effective team for your organization using Tuckman’s Team Development model in
order to functioning effectively together and delivering high quality results

▪ Apply Belbin’s Team Roles for your selected organization for managing effective teams that
includes: identifying potential strengths and weaknesses/challenges within your team;
motivational techniques to encourage everyone's effective contributions; own
recommendations for team roles and justifications.

▪ Apply “path-goal leadership” theory in your selected organization to improve team

performance that includes: its main goals; the obstacles in applying this theory and ways to
overcome the obstacles in different situations

▪ Explore Bell and Hart’s causes of conflict and the steps to be taken to prevent conflict happening
along with own recommendations for an improved performance for your organization.
Investigates how social capital can help managers become more effective leader in your
selected organization, that includes: its importance and the challenges in the business world;
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the strategies to improve the social capital; effective use of the social capital for the success of
the business; your own recommendations for an improved social capital and justifications and
any criticism of the concept

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