Organizational Behavior and Building a Winning Environment

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Corporations create strategies for their teams to deliver outcomes on daily basis, so they can achieve profit and market share within their respective industry. They have turned to successful sports coaches to motivate and teach their management leaders how to build great teams and create a winning environment. Katz, & Koenig (2001) states, "Managers often look to sports for inspirational examples and useful models of teamwork." Over the last decades, coaches like Phil Jackson, Pat Summit, Joe Torre, and Pat Riley have given speeches regarding teamwork and winning culture. According to Katz & Koenig (2001), "the lessons managers can learn from sports team fall into two categories: how to motivate a team, and how to structure a team and it works." Evaluating behaviors of coach's whose won championships and CEO's of successful organizations creates winning environments for their respective teams. The integrative model of organizational cultural is leader driven (Martin, 2002). Creating a winning environment is a challenging task and every leader cannot achieve top tier status. Pat Summit, University of Tennessee Women basketball coach said, "what I think we have to do as coaches is, we have to be ready to say,'This is not going to be easy. You want to win, and you want to win a national championship, then you have to understand, you gotta roll up your sleeves, and you gotta work. And no one else can do that for you. You must do it for yourself." And kids coming in today, it is, it's about instant gratification. Well, it's not happening. You make it happen." We will examine 3 areas leaders focus on in building a winning environment and they are creating a vision, people development, and a robust reward program.

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