Javier Gomez Javier Is a Veteran Manager with Pixel International, Inc. (PII)

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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: sales, production, or legal defense.
-If Javier organizes with a matrix structure, he could anticipate all of the following except:

• A) more efficient use of resources than a single hierarchy.
• B) flexibility and adaptability to a changing environment.
• C) many meetings.
• D) a low level of conflict.
• E) interdisciplinary cooperation.

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Definitions:

Prosopagnosia

A cognitive disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces, also known as face blindness.

Prototype

A mental representation of the average or most typical example of a category or class of objects, concepts, or experiences.

Template

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Template-Matching Theory

An approach to pattern recognition that posits the mind matches stimuli to templates or patterns in the brain to recognize and identify them.