The Most Common Building Blocks for a Company's Organizational Structure

question 23

Multiple Choice

The most common building blocks for a company's organizational structure

• A)usually consist of two divisions-a division charged with performing primary value chain activities and a division charged with performing support activities.
• B)involve a functional or departmental structure that includes process, geographic, product, or customer groups performing one or more major processing steps along the value chain.
• C)typically consist of an unempowered employee department, an empowered employee department, teams of front-line supervisors, teams of middle-level managers and administrators, and the group of top-level executives that comprise the company's "executive suite."
• D)are almost always the departments performing such key administrative support functions as finance, accounting, information technology, human resource management, and R&D.
• E)usually consist of supply chain management, components manufacture, assembly, distribution, and administration.