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Explain What Is Meant by Authority

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Explain what is meant by authority. How can authority be centralized? How can it be decentralized? Describe the circumstances under which centralization rather than decentralization would be more desirable. Finally, as a manager in a large company, what particular challenge might you expect to face with regard to the use of decentralization?


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Social Darwinism

A theory applying natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics, and politics, often used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism.

Equitable Distribution

The fair and impartial division of resources or assets among people.

Chinese Exclusion Act

A U.S. federal law signed in 1882 that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.

1882

The year notable for the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States, which was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.

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