Organizational Behavior Report: Adidas Company Analysis & Strategies

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the organizational behavior within Adidas, a multinational sports company. It begins by examining the influence of organizational culture, politics, and power on individual and team behavior, highlighting the impact of diverse environments and positive workplace dynamics. The report then evaluates content and process theories of motivation, exploring how these theories enable effective management goals within Adidas. Furthermore, the report delves into the characteristics of effective and ineffective teams, using Adidas as a case study to illustrate concepts such as functional, problem-solving, and project teams, along with the application of Tuckman's team development model. Finally, the report applies concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior to Adidas, emphasizing the importance of understanding employee behavior to improve performance and organizational structure.

Organizational
Behavior

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1..........................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Analyze the organization culture, politics and power which influence individual team and behavior.
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M1...........................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective management goals. ..................................................................................................................4
M2...........................................................................................................................................................5
D1............................................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................................5
P3 Explaining what makes effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.........................................5
M3...........................................................................................................................................................7
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................................7
P4 Applying concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior in Adidas.........................................7
M4...........................................................................................................................................................8
D2............................................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is the study of individuals who perform the task in different
styles and objectives. Further study will be discussing different aspects of individual behavior. It
relates with employees and about the workers who working for the organization profit and
growth. In current scenario development and digital technology influence employees or group to
adopt new skills or knowledge. Present report based on the organizational behavior of Adidas
company. It is the German multinational company which is well known for its smart products
and services. It deals with sports shoes and other sport accessories. Furthermore, it will also
discuss about the different culture and values influence the work of employees. Besides, various
motivational theories in different forms also introducing this report, problem solving and team
work also helps to accomplish the organizational objectives. Moreover, whole assignment will
divide into parts in terms of explaining the organizational behaviour.
TASK 1
P1 Analyze the organization culture, politics and power which influence individual team and
behavior.
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In modern era where organization and behaviour has been increasing continuously. It organizes
various opportunity and business ideas which gives positivity in business environment.
Moreover, on the basis of which organization needs to adopt diverse environment in order to
make different and productive working environment in the company (Miner, 2015).
Organization consists different nature of human beings in the business which makes variety of
productive employees. There are small or big organization in which many individual working
which belongs from different culture and religions. Moreover, politics, culture, religion
influence individual or group of teams as well. Positive power in a company business provides
positivity in between all individuals. Good productive employees also rewarded by the
appreciation, rewarding employees, strong performance. Positive power build confidence
between employees and give enthusiasm to perform task in more productive way. Moreover,
this helps to reduce employee turnover of the company as well. Besides, other culture or mix

culture influence individual and their behavior among each other’s. different culture people
influence to work together in productive manner. On the other hand, positive workplace politics
is the tool through which employee get to learn so many things in order to handle the
organization uncertainties. Besides, this motivates to produce quality work for the company
better performance. On the other side, negative politics gives negative impact on the individuals
or on workforce (Luthans, Luthans and Luthans 2015). Overall, individual learns from the
senior group leaders and give their own best performance for the company. These overall
factors and different cultural environment gives different opportunities to make company more
popular and effective. Different culture gives different creativity and ideas. Individual share his
experience and working methods to build good team building among other employees which
provides better way of performance. Overall, positive behaviour encourages new learnings
which gives better outcomes. Every employee helps to other employees for accomplishing the
task and objectives. This gives positive impact on the behaviour of all employees.
Organisation culture and politics in the workplace, as far back as history can be told mankind
that struggled between balancing culture, power and politics. Culture, power and politics have
spilled over time and also affect the business decision making process. The positive results from
organisation structure as a result of all it encompasses. This helps to delegate the roles and
responsibilities in better manner.
M1
Different culture, politics environment influence individuals in different forms such as
many individual people belongs from different religion or state which gives their own
performance according to their behaviour. Some employees motivate and some are demotivated
which gives adverse impact on other employees as well. On the other side, it is critically
evaluated that diverse culture is very necessary to adopt creativity in the business. It makes
growth and company achievements (Pinder, 2014). Employees works in a team each person has
their own process of working but while doing job they need to work in a group. So overall, it
influences culture and activity of organization. Organisational culture also give negative impact
on the nature of growth of organisation. Overall, it is critically evaluated that to present the both
nature and growth.

TASK 2
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable
effective management goals.
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TASK 3
P3 Explaining what makes effective team as opposed to an ineffective team
Adidas is the well-known brand in the market, it is the biggest and effective well-known
brand in terms of getting customer good response as well. Adidas deals with clothing, sports
footwear and other effective sports accessories. It provides quality products. It is the second
highest sport company which provides services across the world (Hogg and Terry, 2014).
Employees or workers who works for the company is highly dynamic and productive in work.
Employees and productive employee power helps to accomplish the organization objectives and
team building organization. They having 53,731 employees which focus on the Min objective or
getting customer satisfaction. On the other side, collective team working gives more productive
work comparatively others. In the department there are different types of behaviour culture
working environment in the working place. In the organization there are various types of teams
such as problem-solving team, functional team, and project team. Every employee works
together in order to accomplish the organization objectives. It gives good outcome and customer
satisfaction approach. Adidas also having employees in different areas of world. Effective work
team members are more benefited and influencing according to nature of growth. This makes all
things clear and effective. This must provides better objective and growth. Overall, it brings new
advantages to make effective work and goals.
Functional team: functional team works and handle the daily function of the company. Adidas
is the manufacturing company which needs to maintain the effective function in order to
accomplish the manufacturing process effectively (Bolman and Deal, 2017)Functional team of
the adidas works major task for the organization which take care of all the function in across the
overall working. Functional department maintained all necessary functions of the organization.
Technological factor also helps to give innovative and virtual strength in between employees.
Company also adopts different techniques and technology in order to connects with their
different employees across the world.

Problem solving team: problem solving is the team which removes issues and conflicts within
working for getting the best productive outcomes. In this group there are various employees
which are well qualified and skilled to make the environment productive and impressive.
Problem solving team needs to adopt different attractive and impressive techniques in order to
reduce the issues in the company. Technology and advanced technologies also helps to mitigate
the issues between the work (Luthans, F., Luthans and Luthans, 2015).
Project team: Project team is form for the main objectives is to adopts different projects to give
more profit revenue to the company in order to develop the company brand image. Team
members of project team is works together on the same project this helps to make company
performance more productive and efficient. Project team assign the work to other department in
order to complete the overall objectives. Project team make effective team leadership power and
goals.
Group form from different personality and skills people which gives their best
contribution to the team in terms of better or individual gives good performance for the company
benefits. Group or general goals are not having any specific task or goal to achieve. Every
individual set their professional goals as well as self-interest. Groups or team members are two
different things in the departments like team works together for a specific period of time or for
specific goals. Besides, group may or may not work for each there or not belong from the same
department. They all are work for individual. Team goals objectives. relate with the final
objectives.
Tuckman’s team development model: it helps to define how team grow or works
together. How they face up challenges, overcome from the conflicts (Lazaroiu, 2015It gives new
opportunity and working criteria in order to the same objectives. This approach propounded by
Tuckman in 1965. Under this forming, norming and storming performing model has been given
for the team management. This impact directly on the behavior of individual which makes
person productive and committed to their work. In the model of forming all the employees or
workers are very polite and positive out of them some individuals are anxious which fails to grab
the method of working. In the next step in storming where in which individual push by the team
members to do something different and unique which means beyond the boundaries. It gives
power and new strength in terms of better performance. Initial in this stage people get

discouraged and fails due to some lack of coordination. In the next of norming in which all
individual works for each other as a team and give respect to each other.
Beblin’s typology was given by Meredith individual role in teams. in which they adopt
specific language to describe individual role. This model based on 360-degree feedback in which
individual monitor by their behaviour. It gives new method and technology in order to take the
best effective process of working.
Factors or characteristics of ineffective team
There are some factors that affect the ineffective approach, ineffective team members are
always suffered from lack of purpose. Might be the reason behind is lacking of day to day goal
objective which they need to perform effectively. This helps to keep the long term goals and best
effective goal making task. This factors might affect the overall performance of Adidas
company.
In-equal are often ineffective because they suffer from a lack of purpose. While they may
be create discrimination process. When group members are unclear about what they are working
toward. In this under the condition would might be create ineffective learning performance.
Ineffective learning process might be given lack of ineffective learning goals. Inadequate
guidelines on empowerment lead to ineffective unstable teams if they are given too much power
to act on its own.
M3
On the basis of above theories such as Maslow's need hierarchy theory, ERG theory, two
factor theory etc. of group has been discussed that, different group theories have their own pros
and cons in order to monitor the individual behaviour. It gives power and strength in order to
meet the criteria. All the theories are effective and inevitable for the organization in order to
accomplish the organizational objectives. Some individuals enhance productivity and group
building out of them some are try to adjust themselves in the environment of the company.
TASK 4
P4 Applying concepts and philosophies of organizational behavior in Adidas
Every organization has different types of employees from different varieties of behaviour
which influence number of activities and contribute their best performance level. This is the

effective process of working which influence the best effective process that helps Adidas to
convert. This knowledge including sociology, psychology, communication and management.
This is the effective process of working. This helps employee to understand the structure and
process. Concept or different philosophies helps Adidas to improve its performance level of
employees and goals.
Path goal leadership theory: This is the model which defines the style in which
employee of Adidas feel satisfied and brilliant in order to working in the environment. The main
objective of this theory is to motivate the employees towards the productivity level of Adidas
work performance. Through which satisfaction level of the employees will also increase in terms
of productive work (Hui, Lee, and Wang, 2015). This helps to enhance the productive team
members. Adidas gives productive and healthy working environment to the employees so that
they all work for better productive way. This path theory defines the actual make of control and
better opportunity and goals. This must be according new betterments and opportunity and goals.
Contemporary barriers to effective behaviour: this model of theory is effective to get
overcome from conflicts and from work barriers with the help of which employees works in
more confidently. Adidas facing barriers in terms of feedback, employee response, customer
feedback, dissatisfaction with suppliers, changes in market demands. So, these all are the barriers
for the company. With the help of contemporary theory, they can easily make problem solving
task in order to give good response from the negative feedback. This process gives negative
impact on the employee’s performance (Hui, Lee and Wang, 2015). They feel burden and stress
due to negative feedbacks from customers. Adidas deals with the barriers by effective or
productive performance. This makes good impression on the behaviour of individual when all
employees work together for gaining the target objectives of the company.
Social capital theory: This is another theory of which focus on the nature, structure and
resources embedded in person’s network of relationship. This focus on the quality of interaction
within the employees’ band group of members. Along with that it also concerned with quality
work of the company. It makes good making of product and services with the help of
maintaining productive environment in the company. This theory of social capital theory makes
Adidas working environment more positive or effective and stable.

Contingency theory: This theory of organizational ensure that best way to achieve the
target with the help of mutual concern of external or internal situations. Leaders adopt different
types of approaches as per the required situation to mitigate the uncertainties in the environment.
This theory helps Adidas to make strong bonding between all employees or take
development measures.
On the basis of organization theory, they have 5P’s which are purpose, philosophy,
priorities, practice and projection (Hui, Lee and Wang, 2015). Along with that, it becomes very
easy for the organization to amend all changes with the help of all 5P’s. Philosophies help to
make the best effective process of working in between the department growth. This makes
priorities of work and objectives which depends good environment and productive environment.
Moreover, Adidas objective is the foremost task for the organization through which employees
works and perform in the business environment. This also gives power and enthusiasm among
people which makes company brand image higher and productive. This also influence positive
environment.
M4
Organizational behaviour explore factors of individual which makes working
environment positive and negative. Organization having number of employees in the
departments which influence working of individual different number of employees works
according to their own skills and interest in different manner. They influence and promote each
other for better performance. On the other side, due to lack of coordination among employees
they create dissatisfaction and conflicts which may gives customer dissatisfaction and low
performance in the company (Hui, Lee and Wang, 2015). These theories of OB make positive
environment between people. Besides, some employees feel jealousy and discomfort among
people. This create negative environment in the company.
D2
Development theory encourage employees and give motivation for the better
performance. It gives new opportunities and growth in terms of providing the best effective
process of working. It gives more better performance in terms of maintained working
environment in the company.

CONCLUSION
From the basis of above discussion, it can be concluded that, organization behavior is
influenced by many factors which gives effective process of working. On the other side, effective
way of organization culture, environment employees get happy and motivated always. For
present fil adidas company has been taken into the whole study. Moreover, apart from that, it
also discussed about the motivational theory like Maslow need hierarchy theory, Herzberg two
factor and Alderfer’s and ERG theory. On the other hand, study also discussed about
organizational behavior theory which gives different modes of working in the environment of
business. Moreover, adman theory of management gives better position in terms of creating good
amount of positivity. On the other sides it also helps to make good amount of brand quality in
terms of future growth. Overall impact of technology on organizational behavior inspire
employees for better performance in the company.

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