2 What do you think of United Healths decision to outsource

2. 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?

Solution

Pros:

> One can get cheaper resources

> One can get well trained and experienced staff easily when outsourced.

> Staffing issues would be solved. When in house staff resigns , organization have to search for replacements. But when outsourced, it is their responsibility to find an immediate replacement and since they have pool of resources, they can quickly find one.

> Lot of administrative work regarding salaries, other benefits, etc . would get reduced.

Cons:

> Outsourced are less likely to strictly adhere to policies of the organization.

> Organizations do not have complete authority on the outsourced staff