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A Major Department Store Chain Has a Strict Policy of Banning

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A major department store chain has a strict policy of banning photographs or videos of its sales floor or back-room operations.It also does not allow academics to conduct studies of it for publication in research journals.In fact, some of its own top managers refer to the management's policies on secrecy as "verging on paranoid." These policies indicate that the top management of the firm believes the organization's core competencies are:

Understand the basic anatomical terminology and structure of the human skeletal system.

Identify the major bones of the human body and their specific locations.

Differentiate between the bones of the upper and lower limbs.

Recognize the structural differences between the male and female pelvis.

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