If Your Firm Created a Revolutionary Digital Communications Product That

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Essay

If your firm created a revolutionary digital communications product that promised to "turn world markets on its ear," what should the general content of your advertising message be?

Explain the significance of functional versus product departmentation and their challenges.

Recognize the benefits of various departmentation strategies including functional, product, and matrix departmentation.

Understand the consequences of inadequate integration in highly differentiated organizations.

Analyze the relationship between organizational goals and the division and coordination of labour.

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Definitions:

Sympathetic Introspection

A methodological approach in which the researcher tries to understand the feelings and perspectives of others by mentally placing themselves in the other's position.

The Looking Glass Self

A sociological concept that suggests an individual's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others.

The Me

A concept in sociology, referring to the part of an individual's self that is aware of the social expectations and attitudes of others.

The I

A term that can refer to the self as subject, the aspect of one's self that is conscious and thinks, differing from the observed self or "me."