Given Wilson Sporting Goods company's geographically diverse locations, various sport categories, and multiple products it is important for them to have employees who specialize. For example Billy is a baseball equipment sales agent and Jeannie is in the purchasing dept. Because of their different responsibilities they have different attitudes towards their duties at Wilson.
1) How would you integrate the different units of Wilson? Explain.
2) Explain the concept of differentiation as it relates to the Wilson organization.
3) Discuss the Wilson Company in terms of Lawrence and Lorsch's three subsystems and respective relationship to environment.
4) What types of authority structure and internal/external networks do you think are most important to Wilson? Explain.