Benefits or advantages of decentralization:

• Easier for senior management to delegate responsibility if the enterprise is split into divisions. By delegating responsibility, the managers might be motivated to work harder

• Decisions will be made more quickly as the divisional managers will not need to send information up to top management and then wait for instructions to be passed down.

• Divisional managers will make better decisions than centralized management as they are closer to the daily operation of the business

• Top management will be free to concentrate on strategic issues.

• Easier to monitor the performance of products and or regions if the business is divisionalised on product and or regional lines

• Easier to allocate resources to a division than to a product or region which is contained within a centralized structure

• Easier to expand, close or move a division.

In brief, decentralization assists top management in improving motivation, quicker communication, better control and faster or quicker decision-making.

The main challenge or disadvantage of decentralization is:

• Get all the divisional managers to work for the advantage of the group as a whole. Especially if divisional managers receives performance-related pay hence they may put the needs of their own division ahead of the group.  Even without performance-related rewards, they may take decisions which seem sensible from a divisional point of view but not good for the group as a whole.

Role of recruitment consultant:

·         To perform the staffing function on behalf of the management of the client organization re: filling vacancies with the type and calibre of staff required

Tasks of  a Recruitment consultant normally includes the following:

• Analysing, or being  informed of, the requirements-the demands of the post, the organization’s preferences for qualifications, personality and so on;

• Assist to draw up, or offering advice on , job descriptions, person specifications and other recruitment and selection aids;

• Designing job advertisements;

• Screening applications, so that those most obviously unsuitable are weeded out immediately;

• Assist with short-listing for interview;

• Advising on the constitution and procedures of the interview;

• Offering a list of suitable candidates with notes and recommendations.

The tasks will depend on whether the consultant is employed to perform the necessary tasks or merely to advise and recommend.