For Each of the Following Activities, Characteristics, and Applications, Identify

question 110

Essay

For each of the following activities, characteristics, and applications, identify whether they can be found in a centralized organization, a decentralized organization, or both types of organizations.
________a.Freedom for managers at lower organizational levels to make decisions
________b.Gathering information may be very expensive
________c.Greater responsiveness to user needs
________d.Have few interdependencies among divisions
________e.Maximum constraints and minimum freedom for managers at lowest levels
________f.Maximization of benefits over costs
________g.Minimization of duplicate functions
________h.Minimum of suboptimization
________i.Multiple responsibility centers with various reporting units
________j.Profit centers

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