Managing Across the Organization

In today's highly competitive business world, companies face new challenges everyday. Good Sport is not the first company to have to change their strategy to adapt to their ever-changing industry. Upon researching the issues Good Sport faces, it is not uncommon for companies to experience conflict in leadership and organizational structure due to miscommunication. When a company restructures, it should utilize known practices of emotional intelligence, knowledge management and team development. Once the problem and the course of change are identified, it is important for Good Sport to communicate their progress with the employees. In order to prevent future conflict and miscommunication, Good Sport will need to implement team building strategies to recreate the company's culture and mission. Companies throughout the paper identified organizational issues that drove them to develop and execute improvement plans.

Team building, conflict management, power, knowledge management, external environment, and internal communication were the issues that the research was based upon. These are only a few of the important concepts that leadership of any organization must pay attention to in order to stay successful.

The research on Boeing and Wal-Mart was done to show the how team building can affect the bottom line of an organization. Both Boeing and Wal-Mart used team building in different areas of the company. Boeing used it to motivate its workers in the plant to produce more. The strategy Boeing used to motivate its employees was to have the employees themselves set the goals and work together towards those goals. This strategy allowed the employees to make the commitment and as a team give their buy-in towards the commitments. The employees worked together in teams to get the job done.

It was a game that worked well both in production and the employees had fun doing it.

Wal-Mart revamped its Information Technology department used it to help keep the products on the shelves for the customers. In order to keep the popular products on the shelves, Wal-Mart formulated a very thorough IT department which kept the inventory like clock work. As soon as item was sold, a supplier like Proctor and Gamble was able to see that and