FC Bayern Munich
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Introduction
Organizational Behavior is nowadays used as a tool to explain and analyze systematically “ factors that have an impact on how people and groups act, think, feel and respond to work and organizations, and how organizations respond to their environments” (Do-Yeong Kim, Lecture Notes). Having a look at the different studies, which Organizational Behavior uses (among others psychology, sociology and quality management), we can clearly distinguish it as a multidisciplinary perspective. One main focus of our study by now was thereby the interrelated links and relations between Individuals, groups and society. This division can be used in all studies mentioned above and in many aspects of life, as we can divide family life, academical life and job life into stages of individuals (ourselves), groups (family members/ fellow students/colleagues) and into the broader context of society. Until now, we saw the use of Organizational Behavior mainly in the explanation of the appearances of global companies such as IKEA or Amazon.com, companies started with an idea to change either services, quality or products to be able to join a globalized race for customers. However, these changes have to be unique on the one hand or fulfilled perfectly on the other hand to build up successful companies like Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA or Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com were able to do. The approach of our group with the subject matter of Organizational Behavior will be rather different from most of other papers you will receive and this will have following reasons: We chose to focus on the German football club FC Bayern Munich and apply some of the concepts of Organizational Behavior on the new appearance of this club. We think that leading a global company has to some extent similarities to leading an international football club, due to the fact that hierarchical structures (employees, Managers, CEOs etc.) are