Organisational Behaviour: Culture, Power, and Motivation at Ryanair

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................1
Critically analyse and evaluate culture within organisation and nature of political behaviour
and power of its management.....................................................................................................1
Impact of organisational culture, power and political behaviour on feeling, behaviour and
performance of staff....................................................................................................................4
ACTIVITY 2....................................................................................................................................4
Critically evaluate how process and content theory of motivation is used to positively impact
staff performance in Ryanair.......................................................................................................4
ACTIVITY 3....................................................................................................................................8
Using team theories like Tuckman's and Jensen group and Belbin team type, perform critical
analysis on what make Ryanair team more efficient .................................................................8
Critically analyse how understanding for resistance to change and path goal theory can
improvise productivity and performance at Ryanair ................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour is concerned with the study of individual, group and team
performance of employees in an organisation while performing their business activities and
operations. Main purpose behind identification of organisational behaviour is to rejuvenate
organisational framework and theories so that an appropriate conceptualisation of business
activities can be developed (Arvey and Wang, 2016). It is important for the manager of a
company to understand their organisational behaviour in a proper manner so that required
modifications can be carried out and overall productivity of company can be raised. This project
is prepared in relation with Ryanair which is an Ireland based budget airline which is introduced
in the year of 1984. This organisation is headquartered in Swords, Dublin and have four
subsidiaries named as Ryanair UK, Ryanair Sun, Lauda, Malta Air. This report is going to cover
about the concepts of organisational culture, political behaviour and power within an
organisation. Other than this, various theories of motivation will be discussed so that employees
can be encouraged to deliver their best efforts. Also, team development theories will be
mentioned so that concerned company can restructure themselves. At last, philosophies and
concept of organisational behaviour will be discussed to to increase overall productivity.
ACTIVITY 1
Critically analyse and evaluate culture within organisation and nature of political behaviour and
power of its management
Organisational culture is defined as the experience, value, philosophy and expectations of
an organisation which guides and directs the behaviour of employees while performing
organisational work. Culture at a workplace includes basic set of value, perception, preferences,
ideas and concepts that assists staff of a company to perform their work efficiently. To gain
expected results, it is important for a company to have appropriate culture (Organisational
culture, 2019).
Cultural identification at Ryanair
Organisational culture for Ryanair can be analysed with the help of Handy's typology. As
per the opinion of Charles Handy, there are four kinds of culture which are prevailed in a
business firm. These culture influences the behaviour and working pattern of workforce in a
considerable manner. Information about these cultures are stated below:
1