Organizational Behavior: Understanding Culture, Power, Politics, and Motivation

Academic Misconduct

Any act of Academic Misconduct will be seriously dealt with according to the College’s and awarding bodies’ regulations. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:  Verbatim (word for word) quotation without clear acknowledgement, cutting and pasting from the Internet without clear acknowledgement, collusion, inaccurate citation and failure to acknowledge assistance.

Plagiarism is presenting someone’s work as your own. It includes copying information directly from the web or books without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from another student and submitting it as your own work. Suspected plagiarism, and any other cases of suspected academic misconduct, will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be dealt with according to the College procedure.

The aim of this unit is to develop a student’s understanding of the influence culture; politics and power have on the behaviour of others in an organisational context. Students will be in a position to apply the principles of organisational behaviour to a variety of business situations.

On successful completion of this unit students will have an understanding and awareness of key influences which affect the behaviour of individuals, teams and organisations as a whole. They will be able to use this knowledge to make an immediate and positive contribution in the workplace, whether that role is as part of a team or as a team leader. This will be achieved through a strong appreciation of working in a team, having a more profound perspective of what makes people and organisations do what they do, and how to adjust one’s own behaviour to reflect the circumstances and situation.

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

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

Demonstrate an understanding of how to cooperate effectively with others.

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

You currently work as a Junior Consultant at a Management Consultancy Firm that provides advice on organisational behaviour as a concept and practice to business organisations. The firm as part of its business outreach initiative publishes a quarterly magazine and employees are required as part of their professional development to research on organisational behaviour topics and concepts and present as articles for publication.

You have been invited to research and write an article for publicationin the upcoming November edition of the consultancy’s magazine on Organisational Culture; Power; Politics and Employee Motivation. You are required to research various organisational cultures and motivational theories for the purpose and to use an organisation of your choice ideally a large organisation as a case study for the purpose of producing the article.