The Virtual or Network Organization Suggests

question 23

Multiple Choice

The virtual or network organization suggests:

• A) there is no "one best" structure appropriate for every organization; this approach contends the "best" structure for an organization fits its needs for the situation at the time.
• B) administration is the primary function performed; other functions-such as marketing, engineering, production, and finance-are outsourced to other organizations or individuals.
• C) organizing a business according to job or purpose and is most easily recognized by departments that focus on a single function or goal.
• D) combining elements of the functional and the divisional structures, to bring specialists from different areas of a business to work together on different projects on a short-term basis.
• E) basing functions on product, geographic area or territory, or customer.

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Definitions:

Neurotransmitters

Chemicals that transmit signals across a synapse from one neuron to another in the nervous system.

Neuron-produced Chemicals

Chemicals, such as neurotransmitters, that are produced by neurons to transmit signals across the synapse to another neuron.

All-or-none Response

A principle that states a neuron fires with the same potency each time, although frequency can vary; it either fires or doesn't.

Electrical Charge

A fundamental property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form.