Organisational Behaviour Assignment - Ryanair company

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1 Impact of organisational culture, politics and power on individual, team behaviour and
performance.................................................................................................................................3
P2 Theories of motivation...........................................................................................................7
P3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team...........................10
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organisational
context and a given business situation.......................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
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INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is a study of human behaviour within an organisation. It benefits a
company to effectively understand behaviour of their employees and provide them utmost
support to them in order to make them work in an effective manner and ensure organisational
achievement of goals and objectives in a redefine manner (Huhtala, 2013). Organisational
behaviour includes study of group performance and individual in an organisation. Present report
has been based on Ryanair that was established in 1984 and is Irish low cost airline. In this report
formative discussions have been made on, influence of culture power and politics on workers
performance along with different type of theories that helps a company to motivate their workers
in a best effective manner. This report also covers concept of effective and ineffective team.
Lastly, formative philosophies and concept of organisational behaviour are included in this
report.
P1 Impact of organisational culture, politics and power on individual, team behaviour and
performance
Organisational behaviour includes the manner in which an individual make interactions
with other individual in a workplace. Main aim of organisational behaviour is to effectively
evaluate numerous ways as to provide motivation according to their needs and want. With the
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help of this concept Ryanair which is an Irish low cost airline headquartered in Ireland can
effectively able to solve issues that has been facing by company. Further, with help of this they
can effectively ensure high and productivity of their employees. Mentioned below influence of
culture politics and power on workers performance are described:
Organisational Culture:
Handy's Culture Typology
Power culture:
In this form of culture power is hold by few individual within organisation (West and
Lyubovnikova, 2013). Only these individuals have authority to take decisions in relation to
company and force that on organisational premise. This form of culture in Ryanair leads towards
discouraging employees and harm their creativity by creating adverse effect on their
performance.
Role culture:
Role culture includes allotment of roles and responsibilities to each and every individual
within organisational structure. With the help of this form of culture Ryanair managers can
effectively able to delegate formative roles and responsibilities to their employees as per their
competence and knowledge. This will effectively ensure high and productivity and collaborative
working environment within organisational structure.
Task culture:
In this form of culture teams are formed with an aim to accomplish a goal in a stipulated
period of time. In this team individuals are of similar specialisation and interest. With the help of
task culture Ryanair can effectively ensure equal contribution of each and every team members
within organisational objectives. This culture benefits Company to make their employee’s work
in a collaborative manner that leads towards desirable output.
Person culture:
In this form of culture individual think themselves as superior. In this employees tend to
be more concern about self performance irrespective of company. This culture within ryanair
leads towards influencing behaviour characteristics and make their employees work within
motive to earn financial benefits.
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