1. What do you think of United Health’s decision to outsource recruiting for staff and line level employees? What are the pros and cons of this decision?
2. Do you believe it is possible to have effective overall management in a decentralized company? What are the advantages and disadvantages of decentralization? Does a company getting so large that it has to decentralize play a part in the gap between financial goals and actual ones? Please give personal opinion, experience and cite information gathered through research of existing companies’ experiences.