1. Levi Strauss & Co.
America’s Original Jeans
Since 1850

2. Introduction
• Levi Strauss & Co is a privately held clothing
company.
• Founded in 1853 by Levi Strauss.
• 10,500 Employees around the world in levi’s.
• Entered the Europe and Asian market in 1965.

3. CONTENTS
• Individual Behaviors
• Nature of Group and Group Behavior
• Development of effective teamwork
• Technology on teamwork functioning

4. Individual Behavior
Conflict Stress and Change
Ability’s Attitude
Attitude
Perception
Personality
Individual Behavior

5. MARS Model of Individual Behavior
Individual
Characteristics
Values
MARS Model
Motivation
Situational
factors
Perception
Ability
Emotions
and
Attitudes
Stress
Role
Perception
Behavior and
Performance

6. Nature of group and Behavior
DEFINITION OF GROUPS - Two or more
individual interacting with each other in order
to accomplish goals.
• Formal Groups
– A group that manager establish to achieve
organization goals.
– Eg: Product Development team

7. Nature of group and Behavior
• Informal Group
– A group that manager or non managerial
employees form to help achieve their own goals
or meet their own needs.
– This types of group forms naturally.

8. 5 stage model of group Development
1. Forming – Working Together
2. Storming – Disagreements and
conflicts
3. Norming –
Communication
4. Performing
weaknesses
Higher
–
level
Strengths
of
and
5. Adjourning – Members may leave

9. Factors of effective teamwork
Focusing on Goals
• Common goal needs to be spelled out in advance and
understood by team members
Compensation
• Members in team work well when they understand the rewards
for their work efforts
Communication
• Communication between team members and from management
to the team effects the performance and development.
Deal with Conflict
• Conflicts tends to throw a team off of its focus, dealing with
conflict can remain team to be effective at all times.

10. Factors that inhibit effective teamwork
Absence of trust
• Unwillingness, mistakes and weaknesses make impossible to
build a foundation for trust.
Fear of Conflict
• Efficiency that result from the group member’s inability to
combine their resource in a maximally productive way.
Training &
Delegation
• Proper Training and working environment should be provided.
Roles and responsibilities should be specifically clear to team
members.
Patience &
Reinforcement
• Some workers are skilled than others and some tasks are harder
than others. Attendance for the works and regular meetings will
ensure everyone is still on the level.

11. Technology on team Functioning
• Technologies which have improved team
functions
are:
E-mail,
Mobile
Phones, Blackberry, Groupware, Computers.
• E-mail,
teleconferencing,
video
conferencing, and new emerging technologies
are enabling people around the world to
communicate and collaborate rapidly and
efficiently.
• Virtual teams – where participants will be able
to teleconference on their computer screens.

12. Conclusion
Organizations like Levi Strauss & Co must
understand the behaviors of an individuals
when they are working in teams. If not their
behavior might influence other co-workers, as
a result team members get frustrated and
might leave the team. In a modern world, the
modern technology can help the organization
to perform well in their long and short run

13. Ismail Faheem
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