Organisational Behaviour Report: Ryanair's Culture, Power & Politics

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Ryanair's organizational behavior, examining the influence of organizational culture, politics, and power on individual and team performance. The report utilizes Handy's model to analyze Ryanair's organizational culture, identifying it as a Role culture, and discusses the implications of this culture on staff behavior. It also explores organizational politics using Metaphor's organizational politics and identifies relevant quadrants. Furthermore, it examines the types of power present in Ryanair using French and Raven's power types, highlighting the significance of Legitimate and Expert power. The report then delves into motivation theories, discussing content and process theories, including McClelland's theory and Vroom's Expectancy theory, to understand how motivation techniques can achieve organizational goals. The analysis includes an evaluation of effective team dynamics and concludes with an overview of the approaches and philosophies of organizational behavior within the Ryanair context.

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Analyze how the organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance:...................................................................................................1
LO2..................................................................................................................................................4
P2. Interpretive about the content theory and process theories of motivation techniques
enables the accomplishment of effective desirable goals of organizational..........................4
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P3. Describes about the making the effective team as opposed to an ineffective team........8
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
P4. Through enhancing the approaches and philosophies of organizational behavior within an
organizational context and given as per the business situation............................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
The Organisational behaviour is the managerial study where the interpretation of human
study behaviour in organisational premises in form of organisation settings, the interface of the
human behaviour and the organisation making their own strategies through implementing the
managerial sources (Nazarian, Atkinson and Foroudi, 2017). The study of human behaviour is
determined on attitude and perspective about the individual in terms of situation arises the steps
taken by the individual would give a favourable outcomes or not, as well as it also mapped the
performances through the pursuing of the activity or approaches by an individual in the
organisation evaluate by an manager or expertise in organisation behaviour.
Introduction about company
A Ryanair company is the airline budgeted which was established in 1984, and the
headquarter is situated in the London, United Kingdom as the operational bases at Dublin and
London Stansted Airport where they used to settle down the docks and ships loadout as per the
company orders with successful flotation (Brickley, Smith and Zimmerman, 2015).
LO1.
P1. Analyze how the organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance:
As the organisational behaviour is the study about the human nature or behaviour in the
organisational premises to way examine their performances according to their competencies. As
organisational behaviour consist about the organisational culture, power and politics where it
implies through the context of company for improvising and impact these factor in employee
performance and behaviour.
Organizational Culture:
This culture emphasis about core values and norms which has to constructed for the
organizational aspect where employees and other top superior abide the culture to not work
against the culture which is formed by manager to access the certain behavior and knowledges.
Handy’s Model defines as complied of management tools which is assorting to analyze
the organizational culture aspects in terms of individual and team performance. As for this report
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of organizational behavior the Handy model is considered for mapping the scenario of Ryanair
company internal structure.
There is organizational culture having a Handy’s model which emphasis the characteristics
regarding power, role, task and person. These are the elaborated below:
 Role culture: It indicates about the key importance of individual and group as per the
competencies who have capabilities to handle the situation in organization premises
(Devece and et. al., 2016).
 Person Culture: In organization there is certainty of a specific culture which implies by
any single person that is influence and abide through effective workforce skills and
performances.
 Task culture: The systematic procedure of culture which represent the work presentation
manner to pursuing in that similar way to accomplish the organizational task.(Katou,
2015).
 Power culture: It is emphasis about individual stimulus in the organization perspective
who have authority to change the culture of company background in terms of work,
infrastructure etc .
As for this organizational culture there is selection of Role culture in Ryanair
Company scenario where it will facilitates by assigning of individual and group potential roles
which has controlled by their job roles and responsibilities where it also makes the
performance effectiveness towards the task allocated as to get motivated towards the work
through objectives of organizational task by which it enhanced the productivity towards the
growth in premises of company.
Organizational Politics:
It comprising about a systematic compliance framework which optimized the rules and
authority of power to an individual to who can controlled the work environment of company’s
structure.
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As the report of organizational behavior the considered of Metaphor’s organizational politics
where it promotes four quadrant and emphasis about the strategies where leaders or managers are
used to implies on it (Xu, Loi and Ngo, 2016).
Elaboration about the four quadrants Metaphors organizational politics which stimulus
the power there are following major highlight point of organizational politics are given:
 Woods: By highlights the set of rules and regulation in which the company is working
under the norms which provides the systematic work culture procedure.
 High Grounds: The constructing of the compliances in the virtue of company
perspective and the responsibility is driven to the only high level of manger within the
organization work aspects.
 Weeds: As it demonstrate about the working aspects which is not in controlled and
manage by the staffs or managers not in formally way where the company appointed the
other party or can say third party get influenced the power of polictics to handle the
situation (Stensaker, 2015).
 Rocks: By having the presence of power to generates the man power through influence to
hire the candidate on the procedure of interview as to facilitates the job opportunity as to
give optimum job role.
According to the Metaphor organizational politics the suitable and optimum quadrant would
be for Ryanair Company is two approaches of The Woods and The Weeds, where the
controlling of the unethical and unwanted activities is mapped and managed by managers
through implementation of Weeds while other facilitates is organized by generating of
compliance and norms policies in the premises where the workforce can work according to that
rules which bring the discipline in the company structure.
Organizational Power:
The organizational power is facilitates the presence of higher manger whose enhanced to
hold the company’s stakeholder and other parties which are involved and the decision is
fulfillment through the manager commands or who having the stimulus role to making tehm
work as per the orders. (Balkar, 2015).
The types of power is according to the French and Raven Power which comprises about the
influence as the change in the belief, behavior, attitude of targeted specific person by generating
the outcomes as per the action taken on the other person reaction.
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There is a type of power in French and Raven Power which stimulus the organization
decision making are as follows:
 Expert Power: As it defines about the power which is having presence in the master or
experts who assorted to provide the guidance and implement to improvised the
workforce performances. (Henttonen, and et. al., 2016).
 Cohesive Power: On the basis of power it is to implies the punishment power to the
negative outcomes where it comprises about the getting punish to those who are
influencing the unwanted errors.
 Legitimate Power: It is power of which the higher authorities or manager hold their
influence to making used in future job role and responsibilities in the premises of the
company.
 Reward power: According to this power it will facilitates or assorted only when there is
high performer brings the outcomes or any kind of high feature of benefits which is
driven by mangers to provide the rewards in spite of that successful task accomplish.
According to above discussion of organization power the suitable consideration of the
Legitimate and Expert power in the Ryanair Company where the legitimate power will
enhanced to the hold the prominent position of manager who will generates the right
optimum of workforce or job roles and responsibilities and the Expert Power will
provides the optimum solution of the issues arises and implement the right approach of
managerial activities in the premises as well as mapped and manage the employee
productivity.
LO2.
P2. Interpretive about the content theory and process theories of motivation techniques enables
the accomplishment of effective desirable goals of organizational.
Motivation: It provides the integrate the individual or group inner morale increase in
positive direction as to achieve the organizational objectives.(Randhawa and Kaur, 2015). The is
theory of motivation structured that composed by McGregor where it defines two theories that
comes under motivation such as Content and Process Theory.
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Content Theory Process Theory
 A content theory is also called a need
theory where it propounded through the
motivation, where it describes the
necessity and basic requirement is
essential to motivate and enhance the
employee morale.
 Content theory is complied through
generates the Maslow’s need hierarchy
theory on which it facilitates about the
basic needs to higher needs of person
life as well as in professional life
expectations(Al Saifi, 2015).
 A process theory is facilitates about the
individual behavior pattern which
fulfilling their needs and requirement
which implies the mapping to help the
promotes of those workforce whose
behavior is right approachable for the
organization.
 It contains the two theories as Path
Goal theory as well as Reinforcement
theory which implies rewarding
behavior result outcomes in the
organization.
Content Theory:
It is the implement in specific element where people are getting motivate as they want to
accomplish their goals and desires to just satisfy their needs fulfillment (Tharikh, and et. al.,
2016). The role of content theory in organization helps to leads the satisfaction of the
McClelland’s theory which comprise about the motivation link with power, affiliation and
achievement. Also it defines about the nature of individual person who having specific one
aspect of motivators from the needs for power, achievement and affiliation, as a person having
one desirable goal among in these three needs of motivation where it influence it to accomplish
the objectives.
The theory is elaborated about dominant motivators which are largely depended on the
working culture and real life experiences. Achievement: According to the dominant motivator it is the experiences or type of
reward which earned on the behalf of success and provides the sense of accomplishment
related to attaining to preparing for challenging goals or tasks. Affiliation: As it set to be represent about the sense of feeling related to be preferred by
others in terms of appreciation, to pursue the work as alone strategies or to handle the
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situation individually without any high risk consumed and not want to get help from
others. Power: It is the influencing factor which is having to an individual which can control
managed the aspect or any thing. As the perspective of organization the factor of power
is get presence in the manager or other level of superior who monitored and control the
workforce, having the high self esteem and who can accomplish any situation through
the presence of power.
Through the above discussion of McClelland’s theory in context of Ryanair
company they have to be all three dominant motivators in their premises as it will helps
them to support, provide guidance and most important it promotes the work efficiency of
their workforce in a positive terms, where the power would be lead towards the guidance or
some how it protect from the errors, affiliation will generates the self independence as to
mapping self realization about a capability to approach something and last achievement is
comprising in organization as appraisal, rewards system, incentives etc which would
supports to facilitates only when to provide the outcomes towards the organization.
Process Theory:
This process theory it generates the factor of generating the strategies or some sort of
theories on which the task can ahead to completion with the implementation about the
systematic approach to having a motive to achievement the objective of the task.
By applying the Vroom’s Expectancy theory which emphasis about the individual behavior
measured toward the approaching of task with high sense of pleasure as to reduces the stress
pain to deliverables the organizational tasks. As this theory contain important features that
highlights the company context Ryanair organization.
 Expectancy: It is enhanced to promotes the competencies or attributes upgraded an
employee which it developed the performance and set the benchmark. As it allows to the
right set of people recruit in the organization, procurement of optimum utilization of
resource availability. Within the Ryanair company monitored by Human resource the
lacking of workforce or resources as well as guidance regarding work related supports
and induction provided about the process and job role and expectancy within the
employees skills and knowledge.
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 Instrumentally: As it guides about the making the work performance improvised as it
depends upon the outcomes will accomplished. The Ryanair company facilitates about
the proper understanding the work procedure, obtaining the trust between employees and
co workers which developed the productivity and profit maximization as well.
Above two Vroom Expectancy theory is describes within the perception of Ryanair company
where it supports to develop the infrastructure of the company as it promotes the higher
performance which is the part of the motivation that encourage individual morale and
provides the effective training to making improvise the learning skills and knowledge where
it helps to accomplish the objectives.
LO3.
P3. Describes about the making the effective team as compare to an ineffective team.
The presence of effective team in the organization is enhancing the coordination as well
as well as it makes the work procedure flexibility in the promotes of the productivity of
workforce through effective leader in the premises (Wells, and et. al., 2016). As the description
of team and its effect is given below with context of Ryanair Company.
Team: It is comprising about the group of people come together in a limited size of
manner for a specific task to making it accomplish within having one objective to finish it
systematically. It highlights the attributes or various skills required as well as having a optimum
leader who can make effective decision.
context of Ryanair company the effective team provides the implementation of positivity
and coordination development increases as well as it also making the better relationship in the
premises, in Ryanair company it propounded the team work implementation as the company
deals with maintain the shipping Cargo packages through many employees needs hands to finish
the work as per the accessibility of the employee productivity.
By assorting of effective team and ineffective description and detailed distinguish between
both of them are as follows:
Effective Team Ineffective team
 The nature of effective team is
contains the high potential people
competencies for making work on
 An ineffective team is very rigid and
vulnerable in nature of behavior
which represent the inappropriate.
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particular task to accomplish.
 An effective team is high oriented
positivity in behavior and attitude
which makes them efficient and
effective.
 Effective Team having a systematic
planning of work to conduct as they
approach in better coordination
among each other
 They allows their teammates to
share their thoughts and suggestion
which improvised their
performances.
 As each member is having a unique
featured of skills and potential to
making the effective decision
making.
 The lacking of decision making is
enhanced where it makes them very
low performer.
 They are not in high motivation
attitude as only acquire them to
make the work complete without
contributing any efforts.
 As they not having any kind of
scope to better relationship among
team mates as well as they not
allowed to other for sharing any kind
of suggestion and decisions.
 The attributes are very weaker as
compare to other competencies they
could not even approached any
strategies as they need a guidance all
the time.
For the discussion on team in a effective way which in Ryanair company that will bring
the team productivity towards the task oriented job as well as it enhanced the coordination and
supporting to others in pursuing the task, although it is very important to enhance the effective
team for betterment the further aspects to bring the favorable outcomes while making assure
about there should be not having the presence of ineffective team among the employees as
because it change the working style or strategy in negative way where it would be not allows the
expectancy outcomes in what terms it permits only discrimination, negative clashes between
employees. Specially like in shipping and dockyard services the employees need to provide the
better understanding of how to making the team effective and coordinate with each other where
they successfully submitted the profitable and favourable outcomes.
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According to the managerial approaches of organizational behavior the basic fundamental of the
managerial activity is a leadership where it enhance the direction shows towards the company
path where it can approach the direction.
As per the Belbin and Tuckman team roles which specify the leader’s style and behavior
which is emphasis fits with employee and work environment in order to achieve goal, it also
comprises about the work need and wants towards the better environment through which
employee get satisfied and work according to achieve the objectives of organization.
Belbin Team roles
The creating of Belbin team roles is to mapped and identify the strength and weakness
about the employee and get to motivate the employee individually in teams premises, as it also
manage and provide the guidance to optimize and improve the weakness in terms of allowing the
coordination and presence of mind activation (Hui, Lee and Wang, 2015).
Some of the important team roles Belbin are elaborated below with the context of Ryanair
Company are as follows:
Action Oriented Roles Sharper: This team role people is who are already deal with challenging roles and
customized their competencies with the situation as they are extrovert kind of personality
which emphasis the team more effective and efficient. Implementor: People are like tend to be complete the task as per the given time to deliver
the right time with right approach, as they are punctual kind of personality which enhance
the work finishing in the task and received effective appreciation. Coordinator: A people like to handle and provide the optimum guidance of the assigned
work to the team as they perform as a leader to implement the strategy and making the
team member together for complete the successful task (Tharikh, and et. al., 2016). Resource Investigator: As the leader or manager of particular team are looking forward
or analyze the requirement of the resources in which they get allotted the resources which
are essential to assorting in the task for the team betterment useful to complete the work
in given time.
Tuckman Theory of team roles:
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As per the Tuckman Team role is propounded about the handling of making, processing
and evaluating the team for assigning a particular task on the behalf of requirement as per the
particular job.
Some of the Tuckman Team roles are elaborate with the context of Ryanair Company
where it provides the procedure to making team in the organization. Storming: This is frequently arises on circumstances where it conflict arises to manage
the relationship and try to resolve the barriers which can effect the team to not
performing perfectly. Norming: As through this approach is socialize between team members where they used
to ask help, coordinate with each other, accepting and rework according the actual
feedback which enhance the team more efficient and effective as well as it enhance to
making decision improvised to apply in the current situation (Dhar, 2015). Performing: The team works attaining the performance level as per the deliverables are
up to mark where it reflect the favorable outcomes where they get accomplish their team
goals.
As per the above description of team role of Belbin and Tuckman as for the
context of Ryanair Company where they can considered for their working aspect related
to shipping ad transport cargo and employees their company are needed to have
understand about the better team roles where the optimum team role would be Belbin
approach where it emphasis about the team credential requirement and basic
improvement can make a team effective and efficient enough to bring successful
outcomes as it allows to highlight the points of having good finisher, sharp presence of
mind with implies the innovation and strategic approach applied, and allocate the
resources which is essential requirement towards their task fulfillment.
LO4
P4. Through enhancing the approaches and philosophies of organizational behavior within an
organizational context and given as per the business situation.
As per the approaches of the organizational behavior the basic fundamental of the managerial
activity is a leadership where it enhance the direction shows towards the company path where it
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can approach the direction. As the Path theory of the goal is inspired by the Martin.G. Evans
which specify the leader’s style and behavior which is emphasis fits with employee and work
environment in order to achieve goal, it also comprises about the work need and wants towards
the better environment through which employee get satisfied and work according to achieve the
objectives of organization.
There are Four Style of Path Goal theory which emphasis the leader’s style or strategy to
promotes the employee activities in better performance.
 The Achievement oriented leader behavior: According to this leadership style where the
leader set the goals and challenges on which they have to perform and deliver the higher
performance or competences to meeting up to the expectation. As per the analyses by
leader to employee soft skills enhancement in terms of observing the self confidence,
adaptability, communication skills etc.
 The Directive Path: This leader style is represent that a specific leader emphasis about
the letting employee analyses about what expect to them and elaborate them about to how
approach the task as per the contributing the skills and knowledge and also making
enhance about the behavior of the individual employees to analyses the situation
 The Supportive Leader Behavior: This leader style or behavior represent the satisfaction
towards of employees through needs and preferences, where the care or concerned shows
towards the employee psychological well being.
 The Participative Leader Behavior: It involves the consulting program about to get the
suggestion from employees or views with related to task and implies the effective
decision making where it shows the prominent when employee are highly personally
involved in their work.
As above the discussion to related with Path goal theory in organizational theory which
is comprising about the four factor which implies the behavior and attitude of the leader that
creates the positive influence in the employees productivity of Ryanair Company on which it
promotes the soft skills abilities where it improvised the basic behavior and develop the
leadership style that grooms to the workforce into optimum direction of the organizational
path ways or which to motivate them as well and they can enhance competencies towards
the work and achieve the goals of the company expectation.
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CONCLUSION
As far the discussion of above report or theory of organizational behavior which implies
many forms of influence about the organization culture, politics and power which contributing
the basic impact of their workforce productivity as well as in the team oriented process with
allows the positivity and negativity factor, as the other managerial aspect of organization
behavior is motivation influence where it comprises some sort of understanding that the content
and process theory which elaborated about the employee behaviour and basic needs which can be
emphasis the manager or leader to concerned about that and making the working environment
satisfaction on which they can brings the outcomes. In last framework of this organisation
behaviour enhancement of company is to invites the formation of team work in transportation
industry where the worker are entitled to work in team as it to coordination to bring the team role
approach of Belbin and Tuckman for better understanding to making the effective and the
benefits which they received that will bring the successful outcomes in the organisation.
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