Organizational Behaviour: Influence of Culture, Politics, and Power

Organizational behaviour

Table of Contents.
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
LO1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.............................................................................................................3
LO2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context................................................5
LO3 Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team..............................7
LO4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organizational behaviour within an organizational
context and given business situation..............................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organizational Behavior(OB) is important to be considered for having proper analysis and
evaluation about company as it covers the human behavior in the organization culture in the relation
between employees and organization . It's necessary to evaluate organizational behavior of company
as it helps in knowing company's strategies, structure and employees working style. Evaluating
will provide actual scenario of company existing situation. Ryanair is the largest airlines company
in the Europe. It is providing low cost fares to their customers and growing in the aviation industry
faster among all the competitors in their region. But organization facing many issues within,
internal environment like employees relation with them resulted in strike and external issues like
customers are unsatisfied with the customer services. Company is having critical situation as their
market value gets low and voted as worst airline serving. Ryanair plans to change in the corporate
structure to small management teams. In this report there will be discussion and evaluation on how
the company will change organizational culture to manage employees towards motivation related to
their work with having acknowledgment over power and political factors which will affect the
growth and development of company. The report will also have discussion over organizational
behaviour and analysis for different issues developed in company. There will be discussion of
theories and philosophies in order to motivate employees, re-structured organization, change in
corporate structure, enhance productivity and improve performance.
LO1 Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
Every company works in their own ways, they follow their won strategies. Impact of the
organizational culture in the company is very important. The workplace environment affects the
overall growth. According to the Handy's theory about the organizational culture which has four
types of culture which as follows power, task, role and person. Discuss these to have better
understanding about the theory. Firstly Power, the power in any organization plays very main role.
In company few people have power in their hands, only they are authorized to take decisions. These
people in firms enjoys the special privileges of authority. These individuals are very important at
workplaces, and they further delegate the work responsibilities to the other employees in company.
In such working culture, other employees have to follow the instructions given by the supervisors.
Decision taken by upper authorities have influence on the employees in order to follow the orders.
They are strictly binded with the rules and regulation, they must obey the decisions. Subordinates in
this culture have no option, neither they express their views nor share their ideas within the
organization. This has very sensitive impact in internal environment lack of mutual understanding,
lack of emotions, partiality by the management. It leads the employees unsatisfied. Next Task

Culture, its most interesting culture because people in company will make a team to accomplish the
task. As targets given to employees it must be completed before the deadlines, so the people with
common interest and specialization comes together and build a team. Most probably it contains four
to five persons in each team. They contribute in equally, as they have instructions also they use
innovative idea to complete task. Person Culture , there are some organization in which the
employees feel that they are more important than the company. They just come for their own sake to
earn money. These people never decide in favor of the company and not being trustworthy. So this
will impact on the organization's prestige, eventually suffers from downfall. Employee should be
aware of this thing that organizations comes first and everything else later. Role culture is true
culture to be accepted by every organization in terms to working smoothly and efficiently. In such a
culture every employee pays roles and responsibilities according to their educational qualification,
their specialization, interest. So the people would do their best and gives full attempts, they
accomplish task with lots of efforts and practices. Every individual has some qualities, so the
assignment of task would be proper( Buchanan and Huczynski., 2019.).
Power matters a lot in the organizational behaviour as it posses main role. According to the
French and Raven's theory of power, Power is distributed in two aspects Formal and Personal, again
it is bifurcated in five types coercive, reward, legitimate, expert, referent. In Formal Power coercive,
reward, legitimate is included. Coercive power is about the fear in the employee about losing his
job, losing his position etc. He lives in fear of getting replaced, poor performance review, projects
taken back from him if he would not be capable of doing task. This threatens many employees at
their workplaces. Reward power conclude the rewarding to the individuals, by promoting them, by
giving bonus, compensation in taking off from their work etc. This leads to motivation in employees
to work harder. Legitimate power comes from having a powerful position in the organization
(Osland., Devine and Turner, 2015). Suppose it would be a leader of team, being on top authority,
have rights to take decisions about company, others have to follow them. Expert Power is about
expertise of someone in his own working field, and it comes from experiences the person gains.
This will help in present situation to work. Referent Power comes from the trust behalf they are
admired by others. People believe that this person will do is right and rely on him.
Political activities in the organization is normal in these days. Managers on upper authorities
play the politics for their own motives. It leads to negative impact in the organizational culture.
Employees in company would suffer from it in such a way like, managers who have authority to
promote the employees, get partial with employees, also funding issues would be raised,
performance negligence, many more ambiguity. Its very embarrassing part because it justifies the
low trust of managers towards company.
As Ryanair gets low profits and becomes unsuccessful from last six years. So it should take