Organizational Behavior: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power on Individual and Team Behavior

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance.................................................................................................................................3
Theories of Motivation................................................................................................................6
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8
Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................................................................8
Organisational concepts in business situations..........................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behavior is the study of both group and individual performance and activity
within an organization. This area of study examines human behavior in a work environment and
determines its impact on job structure, performance, communication, motivation, leadership, etc.
Ryanair DAC is an Irish budget airline founded in 1984, headquartered in Swords, Dublin, with
its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports. It forms the largest part of
the Ryanair Holdings family of airlines, and has Ryanair UK, Buzz, Malta Air and Lauda as
sister airlines. This report contains issues such as Organization’s culture, politics and power
influence individual and team behaviour and performance. Theories of Motivation. Effective
team as opposed to an ineffective team and Organisational concepts in business situations
(Dinka, 2018).
PART 1
Organization’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and
performance.
The model of culture was defined by Charles Handy which involves four different types of
culture.
Power Culture-
In every company of different nature there are some people who has the power which
gives them control over others which makes them one of the powerful among others in the
company. These people are the ones who takes the decisions for the operations of the company
and others have to work on the basis of that. If this culture is adapted by the companies such as
Ryanair then it needs to be make sure that the leaders take decision quickly which can be best for
the company and sometimes not (Hosking and Anderson, 2018).
Role culture-
This culture defines that rules are very important for the company. Also the
implementation of this culture makes sure that they follow each and every rule and are aware

about their role in the company. Also it is necessary that Ryanair must define every employee
their role and position in the company so that there is no confusion for it.
Task Culture-
In order to achieve their goals and make their team more effective they give power to
those who are able to complete the task in time without any problems. This helps the company to
assess who is worthy to have the power. This way they will be able to perform the flow of order
smoothly. In order to keep the team effective they make the necessary changes in it as per the
demand of external and internal capabilities.
Person Culture-
This aspect of culture states that every employee working in the company has their own
status as per the basis of their achievement which helps them to link with others. These people
comes in handy for the company when they want abilities to complete the task. Also
implementing this culture will help them to improve the morale for team spirit of all the
employees of the company.
Types of Power-
French and Raven-
Legitimate Power-
This power is attained with the achievement of position in the company such as CEO or
COO of Ryanair. This power does not stays throughout as it changes with time when the CEO of
the company looses their position or retire their power in the company is lost. Employees are
loyal to their power not the person this states that tenure of this power is limited.
Reward Power-
This power allows someone to rewards someone on the basis of their performance such
as increasing in salary or giving them a promotion. The employees will be motivated when they
will now that they are getting reward for their performance in the completion of task. If the value
of reward is decreased then employees will not be influenced.