An International Division Structure Reduces the Authority of Country Managers

question 75

True/False

An international division structure reduces the authority of country managers in an organization's subsidiaries.

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Definitions:

Augmenting Principle

A principle in attribution theory suggesting that if an event occurs despite the presence of strong opposing forces, we should attribute the event to the actions of the agent.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.

Self-Serving Bias

A cognitive bias that involves perceiving oneself in an overly favorable manner or attributing success to personal factors while attributing failures to external factors.

Actor-Observer Effect

The tendency to attribute one's own actions to external causes while attributing others' actions to internal factors.