Organizational Behaviour: Culture, Power, and Politics

Organizational
Behaviour

Table of Contents
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Organizational Culture, power as well as politics affecting individual performance.............3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
P2. Evaluation of content and process motivation and motivational technique enable effective
achievement of goals....................................................................................................................6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
P3. Analysis of effective team that oppose to an ineffective team..............................................9
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................12
P4 Organizational behaviour theories........................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior is the process of analyzing the behaviour of the employees
which impact on the organization to the great extend. It studies the complex nature of an
individual which can improvise the nature and behaviour an individual but it needs an effective
leader that can integrate the skills and productivity of the employees. This file includes about the
culture, power as well as politics affecting individual performance of an organization and it also
evaluates the content and process motivation and motivational technique enable effective
achievement of goals of an organization and it also describes how an ineffective team can affect
the productivity of an organization and the Tuckman model which analyze the different stages of
the employee and the factors of effective team member development. At last, it describes about
the different approaches and theories to make the behaviour of an organization effective.
LO 1
P1 Organizational Culture, power as well as politics affecting individual performance
The manner in which Ryanair operates its business and performs various functions
eventually have a great impact ion their organizational culture. The organization culture of
Ryanair is highly imperative and thus holds the good position in the market. This company
works on a well-defined strategy and is mainly focussed towards meeting the need and demands
of their customers along with inculcating a sense of satisfaction within their staff and employees.
From past few years, it has gained the best ratings from their customers which has thus helped
them to boost their culture and ethics (Osland, Devine and Turner, 2015). The major issue which
the company has faced regarding its organizational culture are autocratic control of the
management over their employees, lack of morale and motivation, staff turnover etc. The
organizational culture of Ryanair reflects the presence of Handy's model in their company.
Handy's model is one of the well-known theory that influences the culture of organization.
According to this theory, there are mainly four attributes that influences the behaviour of the
organization.
Power culture
It describes the power held by many of the individuals. This describes the degree of
power imposed by the organization on their employees. The power culture within Ryanair is
highly complicated and thus they exercise autocratic control over their employees. Thus, they
have a strong culture wherein this results in their high turnover.

Role culture
Organizations which have role culture in their environment generally base their work and
activities on the rules. They impose strict rules and regulations on their employees and thus
keeps them under high control. Ryanair due to their autocratic nature exercise strict control on
their employees and thus let them know their roles and responsibilities by imposing high
influence on them.
Task culture
Task culture basically addresses the formation of teams within the organization to deal
with specific issue or problem (Newton and LePine, 2018). The power exercised by different
member of the team tend to shift depending on the problem. Ryanair is widely known for its
team dynamics and productive skills within the team.
Person culture
It reflects the organizations wherein the individuals tend to assume them as superior in
the company than the others. Control system as well as management hierarchies in Ryanair are
generally not viable and thus the individuals. The organizational culture of Ryanair has these
type of people and is predominated with person culture where the people preferences are the
main emphasis.
Power affecting performance
There is well-known theory of power that is French & Raven's power bases under which
there are mainly five basis of power that areas follows-
Coercive power
This is based upon the concept of Coercion. Under this, an individual is forced and
pressurized to do some work or activity intentionally. The major purpose of this power is to
exercise great compliance to the rules and regulations. Ryanair utilizes this power to keep the
employees on the right track and overseeing their compliance to the company practices. The
company usually rewards the positive behaviour but also punishes for negative behaviour thus
Ryanair believes in maintaining coercive power in some scenarios (Colarelli and Arvey., 2015).
Reward power
This power involves offering rewards and appreciation to the individual for their positive
results. This highly motivational power which eventually increases the morale of the employees.
The major rationale behind Ryanair success is their better reward management and thus