ICON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Pearson BTEC HND in Business (RQF)

Unit 12 Organisational Behaviour

Assignment Brief
Session: September 2019

Programme title TNA67 Pearson BTEC HND in Business

Unit number and title Unit 12 Organisational Behaviour

Unit Type Core

Unit Level and Credit

Level 5 Credit Value 15
Value

Assessor (s) Dr Miriam Green, Mr Marvin Peart, Dr Mahnaaz Siddiqui

Issue Date 01/10/19

Final assignment
6-11 January 2020
submission deadline

13-18 January 2020

Late submission deadline The learners are required to follow the strict deadline set by the College
for submissions of assignments in accordance with the BTEC level 4–7
submission guidelines and College policy on submissions.

Resubmission deadline TBA

Formative feedback will be available in class during the semester.

Feedback Final feedback will be available within 2 weeks of the assignment
submission date.

 The work you submit must be in your own words. If you use a quote or an
General illustration from somewhere you must give the source.
Guidelines  Include a list of references at the end of your document. You must give all
your sources of information.
 Make sure your work is clearly presented and that you use correct grammar.
 Wherever possible use a word processor and its “spell-checker”.

Internal verifier Dr Walter Gunetilleke

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ICON College of Technology and Management

Pearson BTEC HND in Business (RQF)
Unit 12: Organisational Behaviour (L5)
Session: September 2019
Coursework
Recommended Word limit: 3,500–4,500

This Unit will be assessed by assignment only

You are strongly advised to read “Preparation guidelines of the Coursework Document”
before answering your assignment.

Assignment Context and Business Scenario (LO1 and LO2)

You have been invited to attend a local Employer Advisory Forum that is presenting a discussion
topic on organisational culture and motivation. You are to choose UK based business organisation
of your choice to research and discuss as a case study within the forum.

The purpose of the discussion forum will be to establish the influence that organisational culture and
motivation have on behaviours and performances within the workplace.

You will be required to discuss and analyse the various organisational cultures and motivational
theories, and to identify which ones can be found in your organisation. The discussion must then
evaluate how the above-mentioned theories influence behaviours within organisations and how this
affects the performance of your organisation. You will conclude with recommendations on how your
organisation could improve the performance of its staff to meet goals.

You are required to produce a report based on your chosen organisation’s culture, politics and
power, with relevant examples of how these aspects of organisational behaviour have influenced
behaviour in the workplace. It should also include how motivational theories and techniques have
been applied in your organisation, supported by relevant examples.

Assignment Context and Business Scenario (LO3 and LO4)

You should form small groups to participate in an activity to test group and teamwork theories (for
example, Belbin, Tuckman, and hard and soft skills) and their effectiveness. During this process you
are required to analyse various factors and skills that assist or hinder effective teamwork. You also
have to consider appropriate philosophy regarding team performances and the impact on
behaviours.

After the activity you will individually reflect on the various concepts and theories in a reflective
statement of your team performance, analysing team dynamics, team members’ roles and
behaviour. You should conclude with an explanation of what factors are instrumental in teams
effectively achieving their objectives and identify those aspects which threaten successful
achievement and cohesive group work. Your tasks would be to:

 Assess the benefits of working in a team: identify the mix of knowledge, skills and
experience necessary for a team to fulfil its functions in your organisation.
 Demonstrate and discuss the benefits of working in a team as a leader and member towards
specific goals, dealing with any conflict or difficult situations.
 Review the effectiveness of teamwork in achieving the goals.
 Relate the effectiveness of teamwork to achieving goals in the workplace.

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What you must do

The following issues are required to be carried out:

L01 Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on the behaviour of others in an
organisational context.

Using your chosen orgnisation analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power can
influence individual and team behaviour and performance. You should critically analyse how the
culture, politics and power of your organisation can influence individual and team behaviour and
performance.

L02 Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve a goal.

Using your orgnisation evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational
techniques enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context. You should critically
evaluate how to influences the behaviour of others through the effective application of behavioural
motivational theories, concepts and models.

To demonstrate your understanding of the influence of culture, politics and power and how to
motivate individuals and teams, you should critically evaluate the relationship between culture,
politics, power and motivation that enables teams and your chosen organisation to succeed,
providing justified recommendations.

LO3 Demonstrate an understanding of how to co-operate effectively with others.

Using your chosen orgnisation demonstrate an understanding of what makes an effective team,
as opposed to an ineffective team. You should analyse relevant team and group development
theories to support the development of dynamic co-operation.

LO4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour to a given business

situation.

Using your orgnisation apply concepts and philosophies of OB within an organisational context
and a given business situation. You should justify and evaluate a range of concepts and
philosophies in how they inform and influence behaviour in both positive and negative ways. You
should also critically evaluate the relevance of team development theories in the context of
Organisational Behaviour concepts and philosophies that influence behaviour in the workplace.

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Grading Criteria

Learning Outcome Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Analyse the P1 Analyse how an M1 Critically analyse LO1 and LO2
influence of culture, organisation’s culture, how the culture,
politics and power on politics and power can politics and power of D1 Critically evaluate
the behaviour of others influence individual an organisation can the relationship
in an organisational and team behaviour influence individual between culture,
context. and performance. and team behaviour politics, power and
and performance motivation that enables
teams and
organisations to
LO2 Evaluate how to P2 Evaluate how M2 Critically evaluate succeed, providing
motivate individuals content and process how to influence the justified
and teams to achieve a theories of motivation behaviour of others recommendations.
goal. and motivational through the effective
techniques enable application of
effective achievement behavioural
of goals in an motivational theories,
organisational context. concepts and models.

LO3 Demonstrate an P3 Demonstrate an M3 Analyse relevant LO3 and LO4

understanding of how understanding of what team and group
to co-operate makes an effective development theories D2 Critically analyse
effectively with others. team, as opposed to to support the and evaluate the
an ineffective team. development of relevance of team
dynamic co-operation. development theories
in the context of OB
concepts and
LO4 Apply concepts P4 Apply concepts and M4 Justify and philosophies that
and philosophies of philosophies of OB evaluate a range of influence behaviour in
organisational within an concepts and the workplace.
behaviour to a given organisational context philosophies in how
business situation. and a given business they inform and
situation. influence behaviour in
both positive and
negative ways.

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Relevant Information

Guide to student

1. Preparation guidelines of the Coursework Document

a. All coursework must be word processed.
b. Document margins must not be more than 2.54 cm (1 inch) or less than 1.9cm (3/4 inch).
c. The assignment should be in a formal business style using single spacing and font size 12.
d. Standard and commonly used type face such as Arial should be used.
e. All figures, graphs and tables must be numbered.
f. Material taken from external sources must be properly referenced using the Harvard
referencing system.
g. You should provide references using the Harvard referencing system.
h. Do not use Wikipedia as a reference.

2. Plagiarism and Collusion

Any act of plagiarism or collusion will be seriously dealt with according to the College
regulations. In this context the definition and scope of plagiarism and collusion are presented
below:

Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’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.

Collusion is copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from another

student and submitting it as your own work.

Suspected plagiarism or collusion will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be
dealt with according to the College procedure. (For details on Plagiarism & Collusion
please see the Student Handbook)

3. Submission
a. Initial submission of coursework to the tutors is compulsory in each unit of the course.
b. Student must check their assignments on ICON VLE with plagiarism software Turnitin to
make sure the similarity index for their assignment stays within the College approved level. A
student can check the similarity index of their assignment three times in the Draft
Assignment submission point located in the home page of the ICON VLE.
c. All Final coursework must be submitted to the Final submission point into the unit (not to
the Tutor). A student would be allowed to submit only once and that is the final
submission.
d. Any computer files generated such as program code (software), graphic files that form part
of the coursework must be submitted as an attachment to the assignment with all
documentation.
e. Any portfolio for a unit must be submitted as a hardcopy to the Examination Office.
f. The student must attach a tutor’s comment in between the cover page and the answer in the
case of Resubmission.

4. Good practice
a. Make backup of your work in different media (hard disk, memory stick, etc.) to avoid distress
due to loss or damage of your original copy.

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5. Extension and Late Submission and Resubmission

a. If you need an extension for a valid reason, you must request one using an Exceptional
Extenuating Circumstances (EEC) form available from the Examination Office and ICON
VLE. Please note that the tutors do not have the authority to extend the coursework
deadlines and therefore do not ask them to award a coursework extension. The completed
form must be accompanied by evidence such as a medical certificate in the event of you
being sick.
b. Late submission will be accepted and marked according to the College procedure. It is noted
that late submission may not be graded for Merit and Distinction.
c. All Late coursework must be submitted to the Late submission point into the unit (not to
the Tutor). A student will be allowed to submit only once and that is the final submission.
d. Only one opportunity will be given for reassessment (resubmission) will be permitted and the
assessment will be capped at Pass for the unit. In addition, no resubmission will be allowed
in any component of the assessment for which a Pass grade or higher has been achieved.
e. Repeat Units – A student who has failed to achieve a Pass in both Final/Late submission
and in the Resubmission must retake the unit with full attendance and payment of the unit
fee. The overall unit grade for a successfully completed repeat unit is capped at Pass for
that unit. Units can only be repeated once.

6. Submission deadlines
Submission deadlines Online to the ICON College VLE
Final Submission date: 6-11 January 2020
Late Submission date: 13-18 January 2020

Glossary:

Analyse: Break an issue or topic into smaller parts by looking in depth at each part. Support each
part with arguments and evidence for and against (Pros and cons). Break something down into its
components; examine factors methodically and in detail to recognise patterns by applying concepts
and making connections to predict consequences.

Apply: Use a particular method/technique to solve a problem

Critically Evaluate/Analyse: When you critically evaluate you look at the arguments for and
against an issue. You look at the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments.

Conduct: To do or carry out, to organise and perform a particular activity

Determine: Find a solution by argument, making clear your reasoning (e.g., determine the type of
event that has occurred, based on the data provided”) (application) or “Determine the most
appropriate course of action for the company, within the given constraints” (higher order skills).

Demonstrate: Show that you can do a particular activity or skill. Provide several relevant examples
or related evidence which clearly support the arguments you are making.

Explain: When you explain you must say why it is important or not important.
Clarify a topic by giving a detailed account as to how and why it occurs, or what is meant by the use
of this term in a particular context.

Identify: When you identify you look at the most important points. Establish or indicate the origin,
nature or definitive character of something