Organisational Behaviour & Management

Business and Management

1. Assessment Preparation:

For the first assessment of ‘Organisational Behaviour & Management, you are required to write a report of 2,000 words applying key organisational behaviour theoryto a specific organisation.

Before you start writing you will need to identify an organisation that you either work for now or have worked for in the past. If you have never worked for an organisation, then you will need to choose an extracurricular organisation you are involved in, or an alternative organisation that you know a lot about. This could be an organisation a parent, partner or sibling works for.

You will be expected to write in specific detail about what happens in the organisation's internal environment - relative to organisational behaviour concepts.

When you have chosen your organisation, you then need to answer the following question:

• "How can line management (Supervisors, teams lead, HODs etc) motivate(encourage, adapt to change, familiarize with a new process or way of working)employees to respond positively (accept, understand, not to rebel) to organisational change(Process change, New Innovation, Digital skill up adoption of AI, Robotics, system upgrade, software upgrade, New product design, Product branding) within your chosen organisation?" Considerindividual level-(Employee- skill up/ or skill acquisition, Compliance to ethos/ rule or ethics of the organisation, , group level (Group think about TEAM- Execute a project, implement a task or achieve a target or goal) and organisational level (The company- Strategic decisions/ long term decision for example penetrate another economy/ To go global/ Achieve its MISSION OR VISION) challenges that could arise ( Problems, constraints, scarcity of resources, etc)

2. Organisational Theories:

To help you answer the question, use ONE organisational theory (choose from any of the organisational theories that we have introduced in lectures/seminars. You will need to apply the chosen theory to your chosen organisation.

Organisational Theories

WEEK 1 Content Theories of Motivation
1. Abraham Harold Maslow: Hierarchy of Needs Theory (1908-1970)
2. Frederick Herzberg: Two factor theory: hygiene factors and motivator factors (1923-2000)

WEEK 2: Key Process Theories of Motivation
3. Inner Work Life Theory
4. Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation
5. Dan Pink's Theory

Week 3: Refer to lectures slide
You need weeks 1 to 5 lecture slides to do your assessment .
3. Report Details:
You need to write a business report, which includes each of the following sections:
1. Briefly Introduce the organisation you have chosen to write about
2. Briefly introduce the key organisational theory that you will use
3. Answer the question, using your chosen organisational theoryand applying it to your organisation
4. Provide a critical evaluation of your chosen theory
5. Provide recommendations for the organisation to implement

You need to ensure your report:

• Is closely linked to the key academic theory throughout.
• Is within the requested word limit of 2,000 words+/- 10%.
• Uses a suitable report structure (include an executive summary)
• Is well presented, professional and includes scholarly / peer-reviewed references
• Uses good grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• Uses BSU Harvard Referencing