Case Study Project Guide: Management and Conflict Resolution in Barker Sports Apparel

Case study project
guide

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Organizational overview........................................................................................................3
Organizational operations.......................................................................................................3
Organizational culture............................................................................................................3
Analysis of key problems and the reason of choosing them..................................................3
Impact of problems on organization.......................................................................................4
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................4
Principle causes of key problems...........................................................................................4
Impact of problems in the context of managing people.........................................................5
Theories explored to link with discussions............................................................................5
Justification of chosen management theory...........................................................................6
Justification of high performing team technique....................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
Summary.................................................................................................................................6
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................7
References:.......................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Organizational overview
Organization chosen as per the given case scenario is Barker Sports Apparel. It is one of
the company that provides products and services related to the sports equipments. Such as
clothing of sports and accessories which involves the different sports tools and necessary things
for the sportsperson. It manufactures and produces such sports apparels in a good quantity.
Where they either sells them to the direct consumers or also sells to the customers which resells
them to direct consumers such as wholesalers and retailers.
Organizational operations
Barker Sports Apparel has operations and functioning along with the management of
different domains in the organization. Which forms the strategic nature of the company in
performing their workings. Organizational operations includes the just in time management. It is
responsible for quick functioning of the company. It is considered on high priority and total
quality management in order to deliver best quality products and services to the customers.
Workforce are divided into different domains of organization's departments. Such as finance,
human resource, production, marketing and many more.
Organizational culture
Barker Sports Apparel has the organizational culture of connectivity and beliefs along
with the behaviour among internal and external stakeholders of the company. Which are
customers, employees, suppliers, competitors and many more. This is because company train
their employees in such a way that they create emotional connectivity with the customer in terms
of their products and services. So therefore, organizational culture is made accordingly so that
the employees can link with the products and services with the customer's social life for better
sale and revenues (Madi, El Talla, Abu-Naser and Al Shobaki, 2018).
Analysis of key problems and the reason of choosing them
As per the case scenario given, Barker Sports Apparel is facing the problem of conflicts
between the company’s CFO and the head of the sales team. Therefore, key problems has been
figured out that group structure and group development along with the leadership styles and
methodologies are creating the major issues in the company. Group structure issues identified
due to the interdependence and job design along with the group composition. Reason of choosing
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