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Leading Change Paper: Managing Across the Organization
James Boyles
University of Phoenix
Leading Change Paper: Managing Across the Organization In the simulation, Managing across America the class explored the effects of power and influence on a company 's growth and development. This paper will discuss the opportunities and challenges for the Good Sport Company. The Good Sport Company is based in Coral Springs Florida .The company manufacturers fitness equipment such as treadmills, bikes, steppers and rowing equipment. Jason Poole, ex-basketball super star formed the company over 15 years ago, Jason is currently the chairman of the board for his company. Marvin Wallace has been for the last 4 years, the chief executive officer for Good Sport. The company has been very successful at marketing its exercise equipment to Hospitals. Good Sport needs to grow and expand their operation to other markets in order to realize continued success (Simulation, 2006) Good Sport Organization Organizational structure is the way in which the interrelated groups of an organization are constructed. From a managerial point of view the main concerns are ensuring effective communication and coordination (Daft ,2004) At Good Sport company effective communication and coordination was a very low priority for management.Another reason that contributed to the ineffectivity of the Good Sport company is the nature of its organizational structure.The Good Sport company operated in a functional structure. This type of organization is structured according to functional areas instead of product lines. The functional structure groups specialize in similar skills in separate units. This structure is best used when creating specific, uniform products. A functional structure is well suited to organizations which have a single or dominant core product because each subunit becomes extremely
Leading Change Paper: Managing Across the Organization
James Boyles
University of Phoenix
Leading Change Paper: Managing Across the Organization In the simulation, Managing across America the class explored the effects of power and influence on a company 's growth and development. This paper will discuss the opportunities and challenges for the Good Sport Company. The Good Sport Company is based in Coral Springs Florida .The company manufacturers fitness equipment such as treadmills, bikes, steppers and rowing equipment. Jason Poole, ex-basketball super star formed the company over 15 years ago, Jason is currently the chairman of the board for his company. Marvin Wallace has been for the last 4 years, the chief executive officer for Good Sport. The company has been very successful at marketing its exercise equipment to Hospitals. Good Sport needs to grow and expand their operation to other markets in order to realize continued success (Simulation, 2006) Good Sport Organization Organizational structure is the way in which the interrelated groups of an organization are constructed. From a managerial point of view the main concerns are ensuring effective communication and coordination (Daft ,2004) At Good Sport company effective communication and coordination was a very low priority for management.Another reason that contributed to the ineffectivity of the Good Sport company is the nature of its organizational structure.The Good Sport company operated in a functional structure. This type of organization is structured according to functional areas instead of product lines. The functional structure groups specialize in similar skills in separate units. This structure is best used when creating specific, uniform products. A functional structure is well suited to organizations which have a single or dominant core product because each subunit becomes extremely
References: Daft, R. L. (2004). Organization Theory and Design (8th ed.). Mason, OH: South- Western Ford, R. (2006) Organizational learning, change & power: Toward a practice-theory framework Hiatt, J. 2006. ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and the Community, Learnng Center Publications, Loveland, CO Simulation, Good Sport 2007 University of Phoenix .edu USACE (2006)