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Zun Thet Hmu San UB-05-19 Organizational Behavior Assiignment
Zun Thet Hmu San UB-05-19 Organizational Behavior Assiignment
Organizational
Behavior
Criteria To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that Task
Evidence
referenc the student is able to: no.
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Analyze how an organization’s culture, politics and power
P1 1
influence individual and team behavior and performance.
P3 ineffective team. 3
Apply concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior
P4 4
within an organizational context and a given business situation.
Learner declaration
Table of Contents.......................................................................................................................3
Organization...............................................................................................................................5
Vision..........................................................................................................................................6
Mission.......................................................................................................................................6
Objectives...................................................................................................................................6
Centralization.............................................................................................................................7
Culture........................................................................................................................................8
Organizational Culture...............................................................................................................8
Power.......................................................................................................................................11
1.Organizational Politics...........................................................................................................14
Motivation................................................................................................................................14
P3.1..........................................................................................................................................18
Group.......................................................................................................................................18
Team.........................................................................................................................................18
P 3.2..........................................................................................................................................18
P3.3..........................................................................................................................................19
P 3.4..........................................................................................................................................20
P3.5..........................................................................................................................................21
P3.6..........................................................................................................................................23
P4.1..........................................................................................................................................24
Barriers.....................................................................................................................................24
P4.2..........................................................................................................................................24
Path-Goal Theory.....................................................................................................................24
P4.3..........................................................................................................................................25
References................................................................................................................................25
Executive summary
In this assignment STI University uses the modern teaching methods and technology to teach
many students. Organizational chart of STI University is format structure. University consist of
many departments to produce the outstanding students and get a lot of success.
Work specialization
Work specialization is considered as valuable tools in the hand of management principally
(Mukherjee, 2009).
Departmentalization
Departmentalization is grouping related jobs or processes into major organizational subunits
(Kreitner, 2009).
Chain of Command
Chain of command is the line of authority extending from upper organizational levels to lower
levels, which clarifies who reports to whom (Robbins and Coulter, 2012).
Chain of command is a clear and distinct line of authority among the positions in an
organization (Griffin, 2017).
The number of different levels in the structure of the organization; the chain of hierarchical
command [ CITATION Lau102 \l 1033 ].
The way that people with authority in an organization, especially in the military, are ranked,
from the person with the most authority to the next one below, and so on.
Span of control
People who report directly to a given particular manager that is widely taught in management
schools and widely employed in large organizations like the military, government agencies and
educational institutions (Mukherjee, 2009).
The span of control is widely taught in management schools and widely employed in large
organizations like the military, government agencies, and educational institutions.
Centralization
Centralization is the management must decide beforehand the amount of decision -making
authority to the given to the employees (Mukherjee, 2009).
Centralization refers to the hierarchical level that has the authority to make a decision
(Mukherjee, 2009).
The concentration of control of an activity or organization under a single authority.
‘the centralization of all financial power in the hands of its leaders’ ‘increasing centralization of
control over logistical planning.
Decentralization
Decentralization is the act or process of decentralizing an organization or government to move
control form a single place of several small ones (Cambridge dictionary, 2019).
Decentralization is the dispersion or distribution of functions and power decentralization of
powers specifically, the government: the delegation of power from a central authority to
regional and local authorities the decentralization of the state's public school system the
government decentralization sociology: the redistribution of population and industry from
urban centers to outlying areas ( Definition of decentralization by Merriam Webster, 2019).
Formalization
Formalization is how standardized an organization’s jobs and the extends to which employee
behavior is guided by rules and procedures (Robbins and Coulter, 2012).
Formalization is the word of formalizing to make something official or decide to arrange it
according to a fixed structure (Cambridge dictionary, 2019).
Formalization is the degree to which an organization has written rules, operating procedures,
job descriptions, organizational charts, uses formal and written communication (Huczynski and
Buchanan, 2013).
These informal gatherings have become increasingly formalized in the last few years.
They offered me the job, but the contract has not been formalized yet.
The System Technology Institute uses the span of control element because of the number
of employees or ranks of employees for which a manager is responsible. The Chief Executive
Officer is making the right decisions to develop each department that is the period between
two dates or events during which something exists, functions, or happens for this university.
P-1.2
Culture
Represents the totality of everyday knowledge that people use habitually to make sense of the
world around them through patterns of shared meanings and understandings passed down
through language, symbols, and artifacts.
Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture is one of the major issues in academic research and education, in
organization theory as well as in management practice (Alvesson, 2013).
Organizational Culture is the collection of traditional values, policies, beliefs and attitudes that
constitute a pervasive context for everything we do and think in an organization (Mullins,
2010).
Organizational culture contributes significantly to the successful introduction of new
technologies and innovation, job satisfaction, and organizational success.
Importance of Organizational Culture
Organizational culture comprises the deep, basic assumptions and beliefs as well as the shared
values, that define organizational membership, as well as the member’s habitual ways of
making decisions and presenting themselves of their organization to those who come into
contact with it.
Strong Culture
Strong Culture is a culture in which the organization’s core values are widely shared among
employees and intensely held by them, which guides their behavior (Huczynski and Buchanan,
2013).
Table-1: Advantages and Disadvantages of a strong culture.
Advantages of Strong Culture Disadvantages of Strong Culture
Differentiates the organization from others Makes merging with another organization
more difficult
Allows employees to identify themselves Attracts and retains similar kinds of
with the organization employees, thereby limiting the diversity of
thought
Facilitates employees behaving in ways Can be too much of a good thing if it creates
desired by management extreme behaviors among employees
Performing Stage
The group structure is in place and accepted by group members. Their energies have moved
from getting to know and understand each other to working on the group’s task. This is the last
stage of development for permanent work groups. However, for temporary groups—project
teams, task forces, or similar groups that have a limited task to do [ CITATION Ste12 \l 1033 ].
An animal trained to perform tricks before an audience, as in a circus of an area where actors
or other entertainers perform.
Adjourning Stage
The group prepares to disband and focuses its attention on wrapping up activities instead of
task performance. Members react in different ways. Some are upbeat, thrilled about the
group’s accomplishments. Others may be sad over the loss of camaraderie and friendships
[ CITATION Ste12 \l 1033 ] .
Adjourning stage is a group, completion of a task or members leaving the organization, moving
to produce or cause to happen for public view or public effect.
P 3.4
Resource Investigator
Resource Investigator is a useful or valuable possession or quality of a country, organization or
person whose job is to examine a crime, problem, statement, to discover the truth.
People who have the contacts outside to add resources that will get the job done are therefore
incredibly useful since their network of another dimension team made up entirely investigators
will have lots but may struggle to get the job done because everyone is trying rather than do
work.
Team worker
Like a team to be cohesive, working on the task, they will try ensure that confrontations are
smoothed over and that members understand each other. A group is made up exclusively, likely
harmonious but many slow, indecisive do not want dominate or offend.
Co-Ordinator
Someone whose job is to make different groups work together in an organized way
to achieve something.
Plant
Individuals who have lots of ideas, solutions and who look at things differently. They are usually
bright, feel comfortable being separate from the crowd. A team made solely of plant is likely to
be big on ideas but may not be so good at seeing them thought to completion.
Monitor Evaluator
A person who has the job of watching or noticing particular things of someone whose job is
to judge the quality, importance, amount, or value of something.
Specialist
A specialist is someone who limits his or her studying or work to a particular area of knowledge,
and who is an expert in that area.
Shaper
Like to win and will push to achieve their goals. If this means challenging, arguing, bulling then
so be it, a team full of focused but may disintegrate because there are too many dominant
characteristics, in fighting becomes destructive.
Implementer
Someone whose job is to put a plan or system into action use the ideas, methods, and
strategies practically.
These are the doers. They turn ideas into positive action and can be relief upon to get job done,
very loyal team will happily take on others do not like, may be a lack of imagination some
inflexibility in how things are done
Completer Finisher
These people ensure that the job is finished completely, all lose ends will be tied off are
perfectionists who can be relied upon to make sure everything has been double checked since
they like to be done properly, they may highly stressed individuals reluctant let go, checking up
on other team members work is up their own standards.
P3.5
Cohesiveness
The process by which messages or information is sent from one place or person to another, or
the message itself, the exchange of information and the expression of feeling that
can result in understanding.
Communication is the lifeblood of any organization and its main purpose is to change the
influence action.
Groupthink
Groupthink is the process in which bad decisions are made by a group because its members do
not want to express opinions, suggest new ideas, that others may disagree with somethings.
Homogeneity
The quality of consisting of parts or people that are similar to each other or are of the
same type.
Role Identity
The duty or use that someone or something usually has or is expected to have a person is, or
the qualities of a person or group that make them different from others.
Stability
The situation in which something is not likely to move or change, something such as
an economy, company, or system can continue regularly and successfully
without unexpected changes.
Team Size
Determining the optimum team size is not an easy answer. However, in general, the optimum
team size is five to seven members. The team size that continues to function effectively is four–
nine members. And, teams are known to function cohesively with a size of up to 12 members.
Organizations often have teams that are not dedicated to providing a product or a service to
the external customer. Rather, their purpose is to create a work environment that fosters
employee happiness, engagement, wellness, and safety, usually limit the terms of their
members to a year so that many employees have the opportunity to serve and bring fresh ideas
to these teams [ CITATION Sus17 \l 2057 ].
P3.6
There are two types of two team development theories.
According to,
1.Kormansaki and Mozenter (1987) Stages of Team Development
Kormansaki and Mozenter (1987) integrated the various theories and suggested the following
stages of team development. These stages are sequential (each stage is followed by the next
one). Each stage has the task outcome and a relationships outcome. Kormansaki and Mozenter
have identified following stages of team development.
Awareness
Awareness is the knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at
present based on information or experience.
Conflict
Conflict is inevitable among humans, a natural outcome of human interaction that begins when
two, more social entities come in contact with one another in attaining their objectives (Rahim,
2011).
Conflict is present where there is an incompatibility of goals arising from opposing behaviors at
the individual, group or organizational level. Particularly, conflict is behavior intended to
obstruct the achievement of some other person’s goals.
Cooperation
Cooperation has occurred when two, individuals help each other to reach, obtain what is
needed or sought (Tuomela, 2000).
Productivity
Productivity is the relationship between the output generated by a production system, the
input provided to create this output, the relationship between results and the time it takes to
accomplish (Prokopenko, 1992).
Separation
Separation is the act of separating two or more people or things, or the state of being
separated.
There are two types of two team development theories.
According to,
1.Kormansaki and Mozenter (1987) Stages of Team Development
Kormansaki and Mozenter (1987) integrated the various theories and suggested the following
stages of team development. These stages are sequential (each stage is followed by the next
one). Each stage has the task outcome and a relationships outcome. Kormansaki and Mozenter
have identified following stages of team development.
Awareness
Awareness is the knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at
present based on information or experience.
Conflict
Conflict is inevitable among humans, a natural outcome of human interaction that begins when
two, more social entities come in contact with one another in attaining their objectives (Rahim,
2011).
Conflict is present where there is an incompatibility of goals arising from opposing behaviors at
the individual, group or organizational level. Particularly, conflict is behavior intended to
obstruct the achievement of some other person’s goals.
Cooperation
Cooperation has occurred when two, individuals help each other to reach, obtain what is
needed or sought (Tuomela, 2000).
Productivity
Productivity is the relationship between the output generated by a production system, the
input provided to create this output, the relationship between results and the time it takes to
accomplish (Prokopenko, 1992).
Separation
Separation is the act of separating two or more people or things, or the state of being
separated.
The Dependency Stage (Heavily reliant on leader)
Group display desperate efforts to extract knowledge, power or goodness from leader, in a
forever dissatisfied way perceived failure of the leader to line up with such an ideal of
perfection met with denial, then rapid complete devaluation of him and a search for a
substitute leadership of members feel united by a sense of needfulness, helplessness and
fear(Huczynski and Buchanan, 2013).
Group unites against vaguely perceived external enemies, flight group protects group from
infighting, opposition by some members of the group to the ideology/stream of thought cannot
be tolerated, main group easily splits in sub groups which fight each other frequently one sub
group becomes subservient to the idealized leader (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2013).
Pairing stage
Team members forms paring to save the group from the conflicts related to the dependency
and flight and flight assumption (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2013).
LO 4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior to a given business situation.
Concepts and philosophy: Path-goal theory leadership styles that improve team performance
and productivity. Contemporary barriers to effective behavior, situational resistance, social
capital theory and contingency theory.
P-4.1
Barriers
Barriers are defined as anything used or acting to block someone from going somewhere or
from doing something, or to block something from happening.
There are also many barriers to building up of the System Technology Institute University. The
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of System Technology Institute University has a little money to
invest and distribute university makes a group, giving a share member, for building System
Technology Institute University. As social media are also not developed in those days, System
Technology Institute University has advertised mostly in billboards. That costed many values
and difficult in marketing. But in previous years, social medias are developing worldwide so that
System Technology Institute University is announced in Facebook, YouTube, etc. Many private
universities in Yangon, System Technology Institute University reduce prices of university of
overcome students. System Technology Institute University also choose and have work, know
employees are suitable for university.
P-4.2
There are two types of leadership theories.
1.Path-Goal Theory
Path goal theory is an approach to leadership that is theoretically complex but also pragmatic
that provides a set of general recommendations based on characteristics of subordinates and
tasks for how leaders should act in various situations if they want to be effective.
The path-goal theory states that the leader’s job is to assist followers in attaining their goals
and to provide direction or support needed to ensure that their goals are compatible with the
goals of the group or organization. Developed by Robert House, path-goal theory takes key
elements from the expectancy theory of motivation. The term path-goal is derived from the
belief that effective leaders clarify the path to help their followers get from where they are to
the achievement of their work goals and make the journey along the path easier by reducing
roadblocks and pitfalls.
The path-goal theory states that the leader’s job is to assist followers in attaining their goals
and to provide direction or support needed to ensure that their goals are compatible with the
goals of the group or organization. Developed by Robert House, path-goal theory takes key
elements from the expectancy theory of motivation. The term path-goal is derived from the
belief that effective leaders clarify the path to help their followers get from where they are to
the achievement of their work goals and make the journey along the path easier by reducing
roadblocks and pitfalls.
Directive leadership
Directive leadership believes that man is also a competitive creature driven to achieve
(Badracoo and Ellsworth, 1989).
Supportive leadership
The leadership style is used to follow is Supportive leadership because according to me the
followers are as important as a task. The goals can only be achieved with the help of followers if
followers are facing any problem either in their personal life or under organization roof the
effect of that problem can be measured from their task results. Supportive leadership is
working along with followers guiding them helping them instead of working ahead of them.
Human beings are the most important aspect of this type of leadership.
Achievement-oriented leadership
Participative leadership
Participative leadership is a management style that is used today by a significant number of
companies and organizations. Understanding how it works will allow you, either as a manager
or employee, to better function in an organization that uses it. Participatory leadership is a style
of management where decisions are made with the most feasible amount of participation from
those who are affected by the decisions.
2.Hersey and Blanchard theory
Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard developed a situational leadership theory that focuses on
organization at activity and operational environment. Their approach is one that leaders apply
on the job or in the office and emphasizes followers and their willingness to do a job [ CITATION
Lea09 \l 2057 ].
Telling
Showing truth about a situation or showing what someone thinks, it shows the true nature of a
person or situation.
Selling
Selling is the activity of making products and services available so that people buy them, the act
of offering something for sale.
Participating
Participating is to take, a part or have shared something in an event or activity.
Delegating
Delegating is to give a particular job, duty, right, someone else so that they do it.
P-4.3
Among the two types of Path-Goal Theory and Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Theory,
System Technology Institute University is mostly using this. In System Technology Institute
University, idea of managing director is most important because employees have to obey
owner’s order has to think about that barriers make a meeting to protect and solve that will
meet in future. And principal has to order the Chief Executive Officer that which works have to
do and checks employees work in all days. When work is wrong, gives to workers and explain
the fault of employees not do in second time and in third time, collect findings, reducing,
assistant will knock out by giving salaries for 3 months.
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