What Surprising Results Did Blau (2002)discover When Investigating the Relationship

question 29

Multiple Choice

What surprising results did Blau (2002) discover when investigating the relationship between organizational size and differentiation (meaning the number of organizational levels in hierarchy,number of departments,and number of job titles) ?

• A)that administrative overheads are lower in larger organizations when managers have greater span of control
• B)that larger organizations have to employ more managers to cope with the greater number of staff
• C)that there was no relationship between differentiation and size
• D)that the size of an organization is disproportionate to the number of people working in it

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Definitions:

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between the observed and model-predicted values.

Sum Of Squares

In statistics, the sum of squares is a measure used to quantify the variation or dispersion of a set of numbers.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are manipulated or classified by the researcher to observe their effect on the dependent variable.

Standardized Residual

The value obtained by dividing a residual by its standard deviation.