1. NIKE

2. Leadership
Kristen Akel

3. Top Sources of Leadership
Phillip Knight
- Cofounder and Chairman
- Participative leader
- Risk taker
2. Mark Parker
- Current CEO
- Began as a designer
- Relaxed leadership style

4. How Nike is Lead People skills as an essential part of leadership
Use of multiple styles and techniques
Leadership trusts employees
High emotional intelligence

5. Motivation through Involvement
Seeking out ideas from lower parts of company
2. Promoting internal rewards for employees
3. The more involved people are, the more they identify with the company

6. Motivation through Personalization
Motivation may need to be tailored to culture
Diversity & Inclusion team provides several programs throughout the world
Teamed up with Georgetown University to develop even more in depth programming

7. Benefits
Nike caters to all the basic needs of employees so they can do their jobs to the best of their ability
Insurance
Paid Holidays and vacations
Tuition Reimbursement
Onsite Fitness Centers

8. Using Communication to Avoid Stagnation
Good communication throughout all levels and international branches is imperative
Helps to keep up with the fluid business atmosphere
Maintains cohesive brand image

9. Challenges Secrecy leading to resentment
Communicating through the layers
- Matrix Structure
- Middle managers highly involved
3. Two way communication
- Frequent surveys
- Manager90

10. S W O T
Elijah Silas

11. Strengths Head Quarters located in Oregon
Sponsors athletic events/ sport teams
Longest running trademarks
Jordan’s
3rd cleanest major corporation out there

12. Weaknesses Doesn’t have their very own retail store chain
Forced to rely one shoe products
Nike gets in trouble a lot for taking advantage of the workforce of different countries
Got sued in 1998 for false advertising

13. Opportunities
Products aren’t meant for fashion but are used anyways which helps sales
People buy Nike just because it has the check on it
Interning with Nike allows you to work with their different design, global communications, digital and technology, and finance

14. Threats Biggest competitor is Adidas
Adidas owned 13.2 percent of the sporting goods while Nike had 12.4 percent in 2012
Some people won’t buy Nike because the shoes aren’t made in U.S.

15. Human Resource and Change
Patrick Krauss

16. Human Resources Inspired Employees Diversity is the key to success
“Free Agent” Model
“Don’t be afraid to venture out. We want you to find the perfect job for you, even if it means that you’ll leave the job you just got into”
Winning Atmosphere

17. Managing Change Always stay on the offense
Nike changes with the environment to be the most economical
Nike handles change head on and considers change as “opportunity's”
Employees have to always be ready for change

18. Innovation Innovation is Nike
“core to NIKE, and is essential to sustainability. For us, the two are linked. They feed each other, leading to new discovery, better products and superior performance”
Their Innovation keeps them on top of the market.

19. Organizational Structure and Design
Morgan Salter

20. Organizational Structure
How authority, communications, rights and duties of an organization are arranged
Determines how roles, power, and responsibility are assigned
How information flows through levels of management
Organizational Structure

21. Mechanistic v. Organic

22. Mechanistic Strategy, size, technology, environment
High structure, formal, clear chain of command
Strategy, size, technology, environment
Goal oriented: Innovation
Work specialization and departmentalization

23. Matrix Structure
Assigns specialists from different functional areas to work on projects but who return to their areas when the project is completed
Functional Manager
Specific Project Manager
Strengths: flexible, fast decision making
Weaknesses: confusion, power struggle
What is the matrix structure and what are advantages and disadvantages?

24. Global Perspective
Austin Lee

25. Integrated Managerial Issues
External Environment
Integrated Managerial Issues

26. Components of the External Environment
Demographics
Sociocultural
Political
Economic
Technological
Global

27. Integrated Managerial Issues
Sustainability- the ability to achieve its business goals and increase long-term shareholder value.
Create strategies that will enhance the company in the future.
Nike developed a Business and Environmental tool which the company works with stakeholders and experts outside the company to validate work and understand issues.

29. Control
Scottie Dannelly

30. Foundations of Control
Nike’s foundations of control
In U.S.A.
Internationally

31. Operations Management
Nike’s operations
Design team
Products

32. Background information/ introduction
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