Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on Individual and Team Behaviour and Performance

Organisation
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
PART 1..............................................................................................................................3
Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on individual and team behaviour and
performance...................................................................................................................3
Individual and Team Motivation.....................................................................................7
PART 2..............................................................................................................................8
Difference in Effective and Ineffective teams.................................................................8
Concepts and Philosophies of organisational Behaviour............................................12
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour can be defined as collective behaviour of people
working in an organisation. This is also a study of individual and team behaviour and
performance in an organisational setting and how they interact with each other as well
as how they interact with organisation. This report will discuss about organisational
behaviour in context of Ryanair. This is a Irish budget airline founded in 1984 and is
headquartered at Dublin Airport, Ireland. Route network of Ryanair serves around 40
countries in Europe, North Africa and Middle East. Ryanair employs around 17800
employees but has always been criticized for condition of employees in the company.
Ryanair also faced criticism on refusal to recognise unions and conflict within the
organisation. This report will discuss some of the aspects of organisational behaviour
such as culture, power, politics and their influence. Motivation and its theories in
organisation along with organisation cooperation in teams and making them effective
will be also discussed in the report. Later on the basis of condition of Ryanair some
organisational behaviour theories will also be discussed in the report.
PART 1
Influence of Culture, Politics and Power on individual and team behaviour and
performance
Organisational culture has been defined as a set of shared assumptions that
guide what happens in the organisation by defining appropriate behaviour for different
situations (Ravasi & Schultz, 2006). There are several definitions of the organisational
culture in some of them it has been considered as a set of values, beliefs and
assumptions of the organisation. Some explained it including further elements such as
vision, values, norms, symbol, language, system, habits are also part of the
organisational culture.
Several theories have been developed for organisational culture. Handy’s model is
being discussed here to identify culture of Ryanair.

Handy’s Model of Culture
In this model of culture developed by Charles Handy, culture of the organisation has
been divided into four classes. These classes of culture are-
Power Culture- This culture of organisation radiates control from centre and power is
concentrated among few people (Ritala, Vanhala and Järveläinen, 2020). In this culture
rules and regulations are less and organisation does what is decided by those with
power.
Role Culture- This culture is based on rules and they are highly controlled. Everyone in
the organisation is aware of their roles and responsibility. The structure of the
organisation is highly defined. Power in this culture is determined by the position of the
person.
Task Culture- This culture is mainly based on teams as this forms when teams are
formed in organisation to address specific problem. In this culture power within teams
will often shift on the basis of mix of team members or status of the project and problem.
Person Culture- This is the culture of organisation in which all people think themselves
as superior (Brenyah and Obuobisa-Darko, 2017). This type of culture mainly exists in
the organisations which are based ion professional services.
The above discussion about organisational culture suggest that o the basis of
Ryanair their culture is power culture and power in the organisation is limited to some
key people in the organisation.
Organisational Power
Employees in the organisation greatly affected by type of culture in the organisation this
affect power in the organisation, autonomy that employees get in the organisation is
also depends on the type of culture in the organisation.
Power in the organisation has been defined as determination of the behaviour of
others following on the one ends by Davis (Wu, Kesa and Ko, 2019). Among all the
theories of organisational power one of the theory is of French and Raven’s power