Organisational Behavior Report: Ryanair Company, Culture, Motivation

This report provides an in-depth analysis of organizational behavior, focusing on the case study of Ryanair. It explores how organizational culture, politics, and power dynamics influence individual and team behavior and performance, referencing Handy's model for cultural analysis. The report delves into motivation theories, including content and process theories, such as Maslow's hierarchy, and their impact on achieving organizational goals. Furthermore, it describes the characteristics of effective teams, contrasting them with ineffective teams. Finally, the report examines various approaches and philosophies of organizational behavior within the Ryanair context, providing practical insights into real-world business situations. The report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of organizational behavior principles and their application in a business setting.

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Discuss how the organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance....................................................................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P2. Demonstrate about the content theory and process theories of motivation techniques
enables the accomplishment of effective desirable goals of organizational..........................5
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P3. Describes about the making the effective team as opposed to an ineffective team........8
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................10
P4. By making examining of the approaches and philosophies of organizational behavior
within an organizational context and given as per the business situation............................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
The Organisational behaviour is the process of managerial study where the examine 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 (RENAUD, WOOD and MARTIN., 2019). The learning of human
behaviour is focus 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 international transportation 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. As it covered the
over all the carriage of the United Kingdom business transport activities related to the business
through shipping for making them successfully (Sidhu and et. al., 2020).
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LO 1.
P1. Discuss how the organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance
The Organisational Behaviour is all about the short study of human behaviour attitude in
the organisation aspects to way analyse their performances. 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 organizational culture elaborates about the importance of values, attitude and
behavior which contributes towards the development of psychological of business environment.
The Organizational culture influence the people’s reaction on the situation arises as the way they
represent themselves in terms of knowledges and certain behavior.
Handy’s Model is a complied of management tools which is assorting to analyze the
organizational culture aspects in terms of individual and team performance. As for this report of
organizational behavior the Handy model is considered for mapping the scenario of Ryanair
company internal structure.
As there is organizational culture have considered a Handy’s model for context of Ryanair
Company which emphasis the characteristics regarding power, role, task and person. These are
the elaborated below:
 Person Culture: In organization there is certainty of particular person’s culture which
confined the influence in the organization premises through effective workforce, skills
and performances.
 Power culture: This culture defines about the holding a authority of power within
individual and spread in the organization internal premises.
 Role culture: In organizational having a role culture based on the role of the individuals
as well as group which is highly potential and controlled through the roles and
responsibilities (Comper, 2019).
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 Task culture: This is form with the only motive of to attain the specific addresses the
objective which having provides the organizational task or employee should have ficuses
on the task oriented aspects.
For the above discussion of organizational culture which is currently follow and
operates in Ryanair company is Task Culture, where this culture influence to motivate the
employees for their working objectives and enhance their skills for further task. Ryanair
company’s manager assort to measure the capability of individual and group ones and as per
the competency the specific task is assigned to them
Organizational Politics:
An organizational politics is comprising about the systematic compliance procedure of
human behavior in the context of power and authority which can controlled the work
environment of organizational premises, where now the organizational politic is a technique
which it helps to balanced the work and employees behavior with the work culture.
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.
As there are four quadrants of Metaphors that consisting about organizational politics
which influence the power as well as maintain the organization activities within the premises, So
there are following major highlight point of organizational politics are given:
 The High Grounds: As the high ground enhanced about the formally activation of higher
authority implementation within the organization in context of making policies, rules and
regulation with proper guidelines and the procedures which can influences the political
workforce.
 The Weeds: In this quadrant, Jarrett’s point of view the personal influence and informal
network rule because it dynamic that helps to develop naturally without any errors or
maintenance.
 The Rocks: This quadrant is emphasis about the individual interactions and formal
sources of authority in terms of job role, expertise or access to resources that shows
individual or teams work related description as well as specification.
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 The Woods: It applies the formal procedure and guidelines which can affect the
organization compliances related to norms and policies towards the development of the
safety measures within the work culture (Bonnar and et. al., 2019).
As per the Four Quadrant of Metaphor of organisational politics which currently follows and
operate by Ryanair Company is mostly the factor of High Ground Politics influence which
allows to form effective compliances that consists about the work guidelines which describes the
rules and regulations, policy or norms that made basic political activities. These rules and other
norms procure to the individual and team to assess their behaviour, traits and attitudes towards
organizational work, that instruct to particular manpower in Ryanair to pursue the work process
as per the company guidelines.
Organizational Power:
The organizational power is generates the presence of having the abilities to create the
impactful of environment which can affect the behavior and attitude towards the stakeholder by
which it can controlled all activities and undertake authority of all compliances decision within
the organization.
Through 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.
Numerous factor of the power in French and Raven Power which influenced the organization
decision making are as follows: Reward power: This sort of power is depicts the assorting of rewards to employees
attention to make them follow an instruction or guidelines. For example, when a
employee takes leave and in weekends he/she puts his contribution to completes the
particular target deadline.
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Cohesive Power: This power is to implies the punishment power to the negative
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