Which of the Following Is True of the Studies Conducted

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of the studies conducted by Joan Woodward on organization and technology?

• A) The number of levels in an organization decreased as technical complexity increased.
• B) The ratio of managers and supervisors to total personnel decreased as technical complexity increased.
• C) The unit or small-batch mode of production represented the upper end of the technical complexity scale.
• D) Firms were grouped along a continuum from technical diffuseness to technical specificity.
• E) No significant relationship existed between technical complexity and organizational size.

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Definitions:

Destinations

The end points or locations to which something is sent or where something is intended to go, often used in the context of transportation, logistics, or travel.

Optimal Solution

The best possible outcome or decision that maximizes or minimizes the desired objective within given constraints.

Transportation Model

A type of optimization and linear programming problem that concerns the allocation of resources to transport goods from multiple sources to multiple destinations in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.

Cells

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