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Contents
LO1 Analyze the influence of culture, politics and power on the behavior of others in an
organizational context ..................................................................................................... 4
P1 Analyze how an organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual and
team behavior and performance. ................................................................................. 4
LO2 Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal ....................... 13
- You are required to read 5 following articles and use at least one of five articles
to illustrate the importance of soft skills for managers and teams........................... 18
References .................................................................................................................... 20
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LO1 Analyze the influence of culture, politics and power on the behavior of others
in an organizational context
Influence of culture
Organizational culture is that the set of shared values, beliefs, and norms that
influences the approach staff assume, feel, and behave toward one another and toward
individuals outside the organization to handle opportunities and issues facing the
organization (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
Globalization
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globalization has several ramifications, we'd like to first understand its totally different
dimensions then attempt to try a compact definition (Disha, 2018).
From the OB purpose of read, the largest concern for globalization is that the impact
and influence of multinational and transnational corporations. Participation of those
corporations in trade, investment, and production, enlarged the international
communication and imported numerous society problems. Nowadays, even to control
domestically, the organizations need to track these problems and often renew their
business practices, changing the mind-sets of their people (Disha, 2018).
Digital technology
For example, the emergence of E-mail, Instant Messengers and after all, Mobile has
changed the face of today's communications. Using the Smartphone App provides a
real environment for things like the more talked about, 'work at home', or it can be called
an 'outside' job. . Today, a company will send its representative to another branch or
associate or consumer company and keep the project progress through a technology
hint (Venturi, 2014).
Moreover, because of the IT industry, then, there has been a significant change in
international standards and more. Today, it is unimaginable to have any business who
survives while not promoting itself while not supporting IT (Venturi, 2014).
For example, the software outsourcing industry has begun demanding specific hard and
soft skills related to advances in artificial intelligence to be able to offer value-added
services. (Foerster-Metz & Golowko, 2017).
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People could also be drawn to a company whose values match theirs. The result is that
the culture becomes more and more distinct from that of similar organizations (George,
Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
For example, flourishing corporations like Microsoft actually want a powerful set of
terminal values that emphasize innovation and labor. However, some corporations have
created this error. The previous IBM of the 1980s believed its management of the
mainframe market created it invincible; IBM workers laughed off the potential threat PCs
exhibit. The chief operating officer of DEC, a serious laptop maker at that point
commented that “personal computers are simply toys,” and among some year his
company had folded (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
The “people build the place” read, of structure culture explains however a company
develops the shared cultural values which will have like powerful result on the work
attitudes and behaviors. For this reason, an organization ought to have a board of
independent-minded administrators World Health Organization ought to be modified
often to market top quality decision making (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
Organizational ethics
The ethics of an organization are values, beliefs, and ethical principles that the manager
and his staff should use to analyze or explain the situation and then decide on the
"right" or proper way to act to resolve the dilemma (George, Jones and Sharbrough,
2002).
Employment relationship
The effects of those changes on OB have taken several forms, and necessary
developments include a shortening employment relationship due to saving,
empowerment, the expansion within the variety of contingent or temporary workers, and
outsourcing.
a. Downsizing is that the method by that organizations lay off managers and staff
to reduce prices. the size and scope of those downsizing efforts are enormous
(George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
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An organization’s structure can also promote cultural values that increase integration
and coordination. Moreover, norms, values, and a standard organizational language will
improve the performance of groups and task forces (George, Jones and Sharbrough,
2002).
For example, in nuclear power plants, values that promote stability, certainty, and
obedience to authority are deliberately fostered to stop disasters. staff learn that sharing
information with supervisors, particularly information concerning mistakes or errors, is
that the only acceptable type of behavior (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
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Organizational members are deliberately acculturated into the assumptions and belief
systems of their companies’ culture. Culture, acting through institutionalized belief
systems and cluster norms, may be a really effective means of leading the behavior of
organizational members toward activities deemed vital to the goals of the organization
(Boniface, 2001).
When new employees join your company, the method they behave is heavily influenced
by the organizational culture. As social beings, individuals strive to suit within the
atmosphere around them. If your company culture encourages employees to talk up
without fear of reprisal, new workers can gain confidence in expressing their concepts,
whereas if the culture is to "shoot the messenger," new employees tend to stay their
opinions to themselves. People can influence company culture by clarifying your vision
and values and putting them into apply on a daily (George, Jones and Sharbrough,
2002).
A contingency is an incident or drawback which may occur and thus should be planned
by having the folks and resources in place to accommodate it ought to the event arise.
Today, the ability to control it's a method to achieve such power as a result of IT offers
managers access to important and relevant information. However, IT should be used
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carefully to avoid agitative conflict between managers and teams WHO could feel
they're deliberately being “starved” of knowledge then power to influence decision-
making. This ability, for instance, to forecast demand reduces the uncertainty producing
faces by sanctioning it to arrange the correct size production runs to attenuate price for
the promoting. Similarly, the public relations department and legal function are ready to
manage issues for different functions once those issues have occurred and in doing in
order that they cut back uncertainty for those functions and gain power over them
(George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
Irreplaceability
A function or division gains power once it's irreplaceable, that is, once no different
function or division will perform its activities. for instance, nowadays several
organizations will source production to cheap corporations abroad then the ability of
engineers is reduced or eliminated. as a result of it's tough for a corporation to achieve
access to high-quality analysis and development data, however, the R&D perform
is usually a lot of irreplaceable than the producing perform (George, Jones and
Sharbrough, 2002).
Centrality
The power of a function or division additionally stems from its centrality in a corporation,
that is, however vital or crucial its activities are to the operation of the complete
organization and also the degree to that it's positioned to achieve access to special
information from different functions (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
The ability to control and create resources for an organization is another source of
energy and divisive function and a major source of power for top managers. Managers
control the wallet chain of an organization and capable of awarding or retaining rewards
- money and donations - for functions and components of great power. This capability is
important because the more money a department receives, the more people can hire
and the more money to spend on R & D and marketing - all of which increase the
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chances of success in the future. . In contrast, when parts are starved for funds, they
cannot hire new skilled workers or buy new technology, and this decreases their
potential performance over the long term. Although resource control is very important,
the ability to create resources is also important. Product parts that provide the highest
revenue and profit organization are often the most important parts of the organization
(George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
Reward power is the power to give pay raises, promotion, praise, interesting projects,
and other rewards to subordinates. as part of formal power, an individual has the
authority to transform the way a company operates and has the power to hire and fire
managers at all levels.
Information power is the power that stems from access to and control over information.
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The approach in which functions and divisions gain informal power suggests many
techniques managers will use to extend their individual power. First, managers will work
to become irreplaceable (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
Another way to extend personal power is to develop the ability to acknowledge who has
power within the organization, then armed with this knowledge associate degree
aspiring manager is aware of that managers they have to influence and impress and
increase a manager’s likelihood of rising with that person up the organizational
hierarchy (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
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When a major disagreement over goals emerges, as it usually will once an organization
is undergoing change or restructuring, managers understand that every subunit is
fighting to safeguard its own interests. functional managers wish the axe to fall on a
special perform than theirs, however they also wish to learn from the change happening.
Knowing that one function’s most popular alternative of action are going to be perceived
by others as politically motivated and self-interested, purposeful managers usually
usher in outside experts thought of to be impartial observers. purposeful managers will
then use the “objective” views of the expert to support their position and defend their
function at the value of others (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
To influence the decision-making process in their favor, high managers usually join
together and type coalitions that have the power necessary to realize their common
interests and goals (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
- Explore the ways in which the use of power creates and eliminates conflict.
Influence of power and politics
Negotiation is that the process during which parties with conflicting interests meet
together and make offers, counteroffers, and concessions within the try and resolves
their differences. Negotiation is a vital technique that managers use to extend the
chance of reaching compromise between people and teams in conflict (George, Jones
and Sharbrough, 2002).
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b. Intrinsically motivated work behavior is behavior performed for its own sake;
the source of motivation actually comes from performing the behavior itself, in
other words (George, Jones and Sharbrough, 2002).
c. Extrinsically motivated work behavior is behavior performed to acquire
material or social rewards or to avoid punishment (George, Jones and
Sharbrough, 2002).
An employee can be extrinsically motivated, intrinsically motivated, or both to make a
clear connection between the behaviors the organization wants employees to perform
and the outcomes or rewards employees want.
Content theories are known as wants theories, because they're typically related to a
read that concentrates on the importance of crucial 'what' motivates us. In other words
they try to identify what our 'needs' are and relate motivation to the fulfilling of those
needs (Sielearning.edu., 2018).
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Maslow proposed that motivation is that the result of somebody trying at fulfilling five
basic needs: physiological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization. According to
Maslow, these wants will produce internal pressures that may influence somebody's
behavior.
Physiological needs
Safety
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As a manager, you can account for the security needs of your staff by providing safe
operating conditions, secure compensation (such as a salary) and job security, that is
particularly vital during a unhealthy economy (Study.com., 2018).
Social needs
As a manager, you'll be able to account for the social wants of your staff by ensuring
every of your staff recognize each other, encouraging cooperative cooperation, being an
accessible and kind supervisor and promoting a good work-life balance (Study.com.,
2018).
Esteem needs
As a manager, you can account for the esteem wants of your staff by offering praise
and recognition once the worker does well, and providing promotions and additional
responsibility to reflect your belief that they are a valued worker (Study.com., 2018).
Self-actualization needs
As a manager, you can account for this need by providing challenging work, inviting
workers to participate in decision-making and giving them flexibility and autonomy in
their jobs (Study.com., 2018).
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b. Process theories
While content theories focus on the 'what's' question, the process theory addresses
many issues related to how it works and over time, such as determinants effort level,
continued effort, effort modification and more (Sielearning.edu., 2018).
As with content theory, there are a number of process theories. These include:
Equity theory
Expectancy theory
The Porter-Lawler Model
Equity theory
In this theoretical employee continually evaluates the level of their efforts against their
peers and the rewards they receive for their efforts. If they feel there is a significant
difference between their level of effort and their peers, they will endeavor to bring
equality of effort to everyone. The message to managers is that employees should be
rewarded on the basis of fairness and equity, and inequalities are quickly corrected
(Sielearning.edu., 2018).
For example, if someone gives you $ 55,000 a year for your first job after college, you
can jump into the proposal and report it to work enthusiastically, ready to tackle
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everything you need. Make sure and be satisfied with your payment. Although, if you
spot a month at work that a colleague - a fresh graduate student, your age, with
equivalent grades from a comparable school, and with equivalent work experience -
receives is $ 60,000 a year, which is underedwarded.
Management with good EI skills has an influence throughout their workplace. They
attract workers who also have good emotional intelligence, who successively act well
with each other, with customers, and with other businesses they need to handle within
the course of work (Study.com., 2018).
- You are required to read 5 following articles and use at least one of five
articles to illustrate the importance of soft skills for managers and teams.
Article 1 - Importance of Soft skills development in 21st century Curriculum
Article 4 - Importance of Soft Skills for an Employee and for the organization
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skills, presentation skills, confidence building and any. in the situation of change after
globalisation, soft skills became more important than literary research.
Moreover in today's dynamic and company world, certainly, with the growing importance
of English in communication and travel, there's an increasing importance connected to a
good knowledge of English in the employment market at the national and international
level during this economic world. English has necessary utility values in today's
economic construction, culture, and education fields. English is critical in each space of
life. If there's a barrier to English during this economic world, it should hamper the
communication. We are living in an age of dramatic and new linguistic revolution, the
creating of a worldwide language. People, particularly workers and employers, must be
trained to perform and speak in numerous things with confidence and coaching of
debates, and cluster discussions. Additionally, there ought to be sessions on etiquette,
body language, and cluster motivation and communication skills. English language
curriculum ought to serve the aim of helping the workers move forward in their chosen
path with confidence (Sharma, G, and Sharma, P., 2011).
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