Scenario - Javier Gomez

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Scenario - Javier Gomez
Javier is a veteran manager with Pixel International, Inc. (PII) . Recently PII purchased a small business in the printing industry. Javier has been assigned the task of managing this new acquisition and is currently deciding how best to design its structure. Currently, employees are assigned to one of three departments, including sales, production, and legal defense.
-Current departmentalization of Javier's new division can be characterized primarily as:

• A) vertical functional.
• B) divisional.
• C) horizontal matrix.
• D) team-based.
• E) none of these.

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

A process in biology whereby organisms that are better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Survival Of The Fittest

A concept in natural selection that suggests that organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

Evolution

The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Epigenetics

Epigenetics studies the chemical modifications to DNA and related proteins that affect gene expression without altering the DNA sequence, often in response to environmental factors.