Ralph Company Has Been Very Aggressive in Developing Various Types

question 20

Essay

Ralph Company has been very aggressive in developing various types of financial and nonfinancial measurement schemes to help with the evaluation of its manufacturing processes. It appears that some of the managers are suboptimizing in that their decision processes are geared solely for their department's benefit, sometimes to the detriment of the organization as a whole.
Required:
What changes in the evaluation system could the company implement to help minimize the suboptimization of the managers' decision-making process?

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