Leadership Change

Good Sport is a fitness equipment manufacturing company that has been in business for the past fifteen years. Good Sport was founded by ex-basketball star athlete Jason Poole who is presently Good Sport's Chairman of the Board. Over the past four years, Marvin Wallace, Good Sport's Chief Executive Officer has propelled the organization to expand business to the hospital industry as well as used innovations in all areas such as sales, production and research and development teams. Good Sport is expanding business in neighboring states Georgia, North and South Carolinas. They have not only extended business territorial yet expanding in the market. Good Sport sells products to hotels, clubs, and residential houses.

      Good Sport as a fitness manufacture is considering the latest trends and designs in equipment while being cost effective and initiating new ideas. Good Sport needs to discuss within the organizational structure the necessary political strategies and consider the culture of each department.   The Good sport manager will attend to possible problems and symptoms concerns addressed by departments. As a manager at Good Sport one has to use various political tactics to increase power within the organization. Good Sport needs to achieve their common goal to reach their fullest potential in creating fitness innovations and style.

      Good Sport's organizational structure appears to be an organic, flat structure with a divisional with some functional organizational design type. Organizational structure is a method of representing relationships within an organization, a structure of the interrelated groups of an organization. "An organic structure is low complexity and formation that decentralized decision-making." (Goltz, 2007) This structure also relates to organizational culture by adaptable duties, flexible relationships, horizontal and upward communication. A Divisional Structure has grouping by production, marketing, R & D. Each group the same... [continues]

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