With the Impending Retirements of Very Talented Senior Staff, Katherine

question 53

Multiple Choice

With the impending retirements of very talented senior staff, Katherine was concerned that PTO Inc., her employer, was not planning for the future. Spurred on by her concern, Katherine convinced management to budget and build a knowledge management system to create, acquire, store, and transfer knowledge in order to modify PTO's behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. Two years later, Katherine was proud to reflect on her success in helping the company become a(n) ________ organization.

• A) network
• B) matrix
• C) learning
• D) functional
• E) mechanistic

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Definitions:

Traceable Fixed Advertising

Costs of advertising that can be directly associated with a specific product or segment of the business.

Fixed General Factory Overhead

Costs associated with operating a factory that do not vary with the level of production, such as factory rent, insurance, and salaries of managers.

Variable Cost

Expenses that change in proportion to the activity of a business, such as cost of goods sold or materials costs.

Fixed Cost

Costs that do not vary with the level of output or production, such as rent, salaries, and insurance premiums.