The More a Company Needs to Be Innovative and Responsive

question 53

Multiple Choice

The more a company needs to be innovative and responsive, the more likely the company will do which of the following?

• A) decentralize the organization
• B) choose functional departmentalization
• C) centralize the organization
• D) reduce delegation of authority

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Definitions:

Sodium-Potassium Pump

A membrane-bound transporter enzyme present in many cell (plasma) membranes that pumps sodium out of cells while pumping potassium into cells, thus maintaining the concentration and electrical gradients of these ions.

Endocytosis

Process by which a cell takes in a small amount of extracellular fluid (and its contents) by the ballooning inward of the plasma membrane.

Exocytosis

Process by which a cell expels a vesicle’s contents to extracellular fluid.

Entropy

A measure of disorder or randomness in a system, often associated with the second law of thermodynamics.