Ryanair's Organisational Culture, Power, and Politics

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Organisational Behaviour
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Table of Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................3
Organisation politics, power & culture.................................................................4
Motivating individuals and teams..........................................................................7
Cooperation with team and concepts and theories of organisation behaviour..9
Conclusion..............................................................................................................12
References..............................................................................................................13
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Introduction
Organisation behaviour is defined as the process of dealing and investigating the performance of
both the individual as well as the group for the effective functioning of the organisation
development. This study is mainly focusing on human behaviour in the working environment
which ultimately is affecting the job structure, environment, communication as well as the
performance of the company. The various factors like politics, power & politics effect are also
discussed within the context which is ultimately influencing the overall performance. There are
both internal as well as external factors which are affecting the organisation behaviour and their
impacts are also discussed within the context. So with the help of the information provided, we
can analyse both the individual as well as group performance which is ultimately directing
towards their organisational behaviour (Miner, 2015). The employee and staffs are the import
parts of any organisation and it is very necessary to critically analyse their behaviour which is
ultimately affecting the organisation. Different aspects like motivating the individual & team,
cooperation and the theories of organisational behaviour is also discussed here in the section.
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Organisation politics, power & culture
Organisation politics, power & culture are the important aspects which are affecting the overall
performance of the organisation and the same factors are greatly influence the Ryanair flight
industry. Earlier it was so much affected in its initial working phase which leads to the adoption
of low fares, low-cost approach. It also receives extensive media coverage due to the poor
facilities and the services provided by them. But later on it recovers from all the issues & the
factor influencing this improved performance are organisational culture, power as well as
politics. The organisational politics is required to determine and analyse the organisation power
which helps it in the effective as well as efficient working. It also supports the coalition and
bargaining. The culture supports the organisation working performance as well as efficiency and
the organisation power is related to the interference of the politics which is necessary for any
organisation survival (Miner, 2015).
The organisation culture is lead to the development of continuous learning, sharing values,
problem-solving analysis and many more. In this respect, many theories were discussed which
are supporting this effective organisation culture. The Ryanair also adopted some of the
mentioned below techniques which supports and improves the organisation culture (Driskill,
2018).
The handy topology includes four factors which support the effective organisation culture. It
includes power, role, task and person which play an important role in the organisation culture
implementation (Driskill, 2018). In the Ryanair, these four factors play a very important role like
the power gives the authority for decision making, the different task is allotted and completed as
per the role defined. The person acclimatisation is very important aspects which support the
effective implementation of the organisation culture. Hofstede's cultural dimension is basically
used for the cross-cultural dimension which basically involves the showing the society culture
values impact their working members. Deal and Kennedy Principle distributes the overall quality
development onto two subcategories which are feedback and reward (Helms and Mills, 2017).
The Ryanair is efficiently utilising this organisation cultures which leads to the organisation
development and the successful performance. With the implementation of these cultures, the
performance of the Ryanair improved.
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Organisation power is an aid which is used for the development of the organisation and
providing the direction of the work for efficient performance (Ocasio, 2017). In any organisation,
there are various sources of power which include the "positional power", "referent power",
"coercive power”, “reward power” & “expert power”.
One of the organisation power which improves the Ryanair overall performance in their
industrial aspect is French and Raven's base of power. They provide additional support and the
authority for performing any task and will help in the development of the industry (Hüther and
Krücken, 2015). It basically includes the power authority which is again divided into five
different sections which are coercive power, reward power, expert power, referent power,
positional power and one more power form is which is informational power that is supporting the
effective functioning the organisation (Ocasio, 2017). It is basically implemented for effective
management as well as the development of the organisation. This power culture gives the
authority to the Ryanair to take some effective measure steps for recovering from the losses they
are suffering band accordingly develop some effective techniques & strategies which will
develop the organisation standard and leads to its growth.
The Organisation politics are some unofficial & informal efforts which are leading to the
development of organisation power as well as position. It is basically implemented to attain some
high target objectives as well as to lead the path towards the company development (Landells
and Albrecht, 2017). It is a very important factor which influences the organisation behaviour
and leads to its development. The Ryanair is also able to develop its business just because of
implementing some organisation power which includes Chanlat’s characteristic which improves
the existing situation the organisation (Saleem, 2015). With the impact of political influence, the
organisation behaviour of the industry improves up to a certain level from where the Ryanair is
overcoming its faults and developing its business.
The power and politics are the two faces of a coin which cannot exist without each other. Both
are the supportive aids and it will lead to the enhancement of the organisation power and the
performance of the company (Landells and Albrecht, 2017). Power is the concern which applies
the effectiveness to the individual to perform the task whereas the politics are providing the way
and the platform to do the needful. Both these factors are working together effectively and with
the effect of their performance, they lead to the effective development of the organisation culture
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(Saleem, 2015). So these are the important aspects which will improve the organisation
development and will also tackle the flaws of the existing situation and helps in recovering from
that particular situation which will help in the increasing the sustainability of the organisation.
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Motivating individuals and teams
As per the feedback of Ryanair airlines industry, their performance is not much good or we can
say is below average which can’t even attract the consumer by their services and the facilities
provided by them. In the UK, the Ryanair is voted as the poor airline industry which is resulting
in the organisation performance decrement. It is facing a lot of issues like low fares adoption,
low approach cost, staffing issues, poor customer satisfaction level, etc. it starts deteriorating the
expectation of both the customer and the staff of that organisation which leads to the low
organisational performance (Cnossen, et. al., 2017).
Because of this reason, the employee’s relationship with the organisation is going down day by
day & it is a very important concern. This is just because of the consistency in the poor
performance of the organisation which is continuing from last 6 years. This leads to the
generation of the dissatisfaction of the employees as well as the customers and it directly leads to
the organisation to the very big loss (Cnossen, et. al., 2017). It results in the occasional strikes
by the employees of the company for providing them with comfort as well as reducing this loss
and developing these strategies to cope up with this situation. So the company follows some
organisation politics, power and culture which supports the organisation performance and it
helps in the organisation recovery from all the losses it faces from the last six years. The
management reconstructed the organisation structure and also develops some effective planning
and strategies which leads to the organisation development (Mekler, et. al., 2017).
But beyond this, it is very much essential to develop some effective motivational theories which
will develop the faith of the employees as well as the customers on the organisation. It is a very
much important aspect which will help the organisation to back up on its track.
For any individual motivation, there is a need to attract his attention. In the case of Ryanair, there
is the requirement of implementation of different theories which will recover this problem.
Hertzberg's two-factor theory is one of the important theories which are focusing on these
aspects. It includes motivator factors as well as hygiene factors (Mekler, et. al., 2017). Motivator
factors help in showing the better scheme as well as improved performance of Ryanair whereas
the hygiene factors are for maintaining the efficiencies in the organisation performance. It
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includes both facilities as well as the ergonomics consideration. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is
focusing on providing and fulfilling the basic needs of the consumers which they are expecting
from the Ryanair. In the case airline industry of Ryanair, after such poor feedback received from
the people of the nation, it is very much important to attract the attention of the customer of the
people which includes the fulfilment of the basic need of the customer. The expectancy theory is
focusing on the expectation of the customers from any firm. From any industries like Ryanair,
the basic expectation like economic cost, good facilities and many other things are availed by the
use of this model and the 3D theories of attributes are focusing on the qualities and features
which are important aspects form the development and expansion of the company.
For the motivation of the team or group is very much important for the effective working for the
betterment of the company performance, there is a need of developing of certain strategies which
leads to the organisation betterment (Mohammad-Davoudi and Parpouchi, 2016). There is a need
for doing certain planning related the offers, schemes and facilities which attracts the attention of
the customer towards the company. Need to provide an effective environment and also need to
maintain the ergonomics for the maintenance of the staff strength. Time to time different
activities should be planned for the organisation stress relaxation. Need to pay the credit to the
team members for what they actually deserve. Need to avail the suitable working environment so
that their effectiveness should maintain and they get motivated to work for the organisation
betterment. There is also a need to offer the employees for their own development (self-
development) which increases the attention of the people. Need to encourage achievement and
also need to celebrate it as a part of the company development. Need not to punish for an
unsuccessful attempt. This will lead to the organisation innovation skills development
(Mohammad-Davoudi and Parpouchi, 2016). Also, need to set some clear goals and objectives
which is needed to be achieved by them within the given time intervals.
This will help Ryanair to successfully develop and motivate the employees as well as the
customer so that they get attracted towards the organisation and put their faith in it. The
motivational techniques will develop the organisation standard which will help in easy
sustainability. It leads to the development of the sense of responsibility among the working
employee of the company. It also develops the effective working environment of the company. It
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ultimately leads to the growth of the company and after the implementation of the theories,
Ryanair issues resolved and they get back to their track of effective business.
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Cooperation with team and concepts and theories of organisation behaviour
After the recovery from the bad phase faced by Ryanair airlines, now they are switching to
change their organisational structure within the next one year. With the increase in their
effectiveness, they are now starting more branches namely Ryanair DAC, Laudamotion, Ryanair
Sun & Ryanair UK.
In this regard, there is a need for the development of different strategies and function which will
help for the effective function of the organisation. Much different organisation collaborated with
Ryanair is performing effectively for the successful development of the planning of Ryanair. The
different teams working in this regards are Trinity Business School, Trinity College Durbin,
National Gallery of Ireland, Erasmus student network, etc. They help in the effective functioning
and enhancement of the Ryanair business so that maximum development can be done before the
deadline (Glinkowska and Kaczmarek, 2015). So for their effective working and for the
development of four new branches of Ryanair, they play different roles for the development.
They are planning for the development of new strategies and planning for organisational growth.
In this regard, they are implementing different leadership styles which will improve the
organisation growth and working. They have implemented different leadership styles for their
planning and the Ryanair development like autocratic leadership as they are developing their
own business it is very much important to take the self-decision, as well as the assessment &
analysis of the implementation and impact, should be also done by themselves (Ajzen, 2015).
The involvement of staff is very much important and it can be done via effective communication
and their active involvement in planning and functioning. The strategic leadership styles are also
adopted for the same which deals with the development of different strategies which will help to
tackle different situations and problems while dealing with the organisation development (Liang,
et. al., 2015). The staffs are again involved for the strategies development and their effective
implementation. Much more leadership are followed here for the effective development of
Ryanair like transformational leadership, team leadership, cross-cultural leadership, visionary
leadership and many other types. It will help in the successful planning and development of the
Ryanair airlines and the planning of the expansion of the different branches will also be
succeeded with this effect (Macdonald, et. al., 2017).
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In the successful development of the Ryanair industry, teamwork plays a very important role. It
is either of the management body or of the other collaborated teams who are working with it for
the effective functioning. So following are the advantages of the teamwork and the reason for the
implementation of teamwork by the Ryanair are mentioned below:
1. It offers differing feedback and perspectives which will help in the development of
organisation broad vision.
2. It also improves work productivity and efficiency. As in the case of Ryanair, they
develop different teams who developed different planning strategies for organisation
development (Isusi, et. al., 2017).
3. It also provides great learning opportunities that help any organisation to learn from their
own mistakes as well as to grow continuously.
4. It develops a good understanding between members and also it buildup the relationship
among the people.
5. Promotes workspace synergy.
6. It promotes the effectiveness of the task as well as increases efficiency.
With the analysis of Belbin team theory and the Tuckman & Jeans group model theory of
effective work management, we get to know about the effective procedure to control the process
so that to increase the performance. They show the systematic approach of doing any task for
maintaining its effectivity.
After going through these models of effective work management, we analyse that the Ryanair is
needed to implement some of the strategies which improved its working performance. There is a
need to develop the proper monitoring of the working which will make the workfare as well as
transparent. Also, there is a need to have a resource investigator who checks the availability of
resources as well as checks the quality of the work which is being performed for the company
development. Also, the experts are required to be there who will analyse the results obtained &
check it will the company requirements whether it is fulfilling the company requirement or not.
So with the implementation of this, the work performance of Ryanair will improve and the
expansion of their four branches will be successfully done on time.
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The Path-goal theory is very much necessary to be implemented in any company for its
betterment as it will guide the path of working which will lead to the organisation development.
It is made on the consideration that kept in mind is all about the goals and objectives of the
company.
But in maintaining the effectiveness a lot of barriers comes in the path which aborts the
successful implementation of the strategies and planning. These barriers include rules and
policies, hierarchical structure, organisation facilities and the complex structure of the
organisation. Need to overcome these barriers so that the efficiency should be maintained & the
work should be on time and with ease.
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