A Food Products Company Has Many Layers of Management and Narrow

question 115

Multiple Choice

A food products company has many layers of management and narrow spans of control.It is divided into operations, marketing, research and development, and finance divisions.Centralized top management makes most of the company's important decisions.This food products company most resembles a ____ organizational structure.

• A) matrix
• B) bureaucratic
• C) line
• D) cluster
• E) network

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Definitions:

Measurements

Quantitative data collected by noting the extent, dimension, quantity, or capacity of something using standard units.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of a data set, measuring the spread of the middle 50% of the data.

Summary Statistics

Numeric values that summarize and provide information about your sample data, including measures like mean, median, and standard deviation.

Lower Fence

A term used in descriptive statistics and boxplot construction, referring to a value below which lies an outlier in a dataset, typically calculated as Q1 - 1.5*IQR, where Q1 is the first quartile and IQR is the interquartile range.