Scenario D

question 51

Multiple Choice

Scenario D. "This company needs better integration!" Alyssa was thinking about that quote as she was working on a project for the president of her company, who was also her boss. He had asked her to put together a plan to transition their firm to a more tightly integrated one. Alyssa recalled from her college management classes that the particular structure an organization adopts may use a variety of approaches to help them make certain that interdependent units and individuals will work together to achieve a common purpose. Somehow she had to address this in her report.
-One thing that Alyssa was considering was to be sure the firm focused on regulating what the employees do to better integrate the firm.Which of the following actions should Alyssa recommend to her boss to best accomplish this goal?

• A)Coordinate by standardization
• B)Formalize all processes with the approval of the Board
• C)Change the organization to a matrix structure
• D)Accumulate the right resources and eliminate resources that don't provide value
• E)Centralize decision making

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Definitions:

Third Variable

An unmeasured variable that may influence or confound the relationship between the two variables of interest in a study.

Spearman Rank

An assessment of rank correlation that doesn't rely on parametric assumptions, used to evaluate how effectively a monotonic function can represent the association between two variables.

Ordinal-Level

Refers to a level of measurement where data can be ordered or ranked, but the distances between ranks are not necessarily equal.

Point Biserial

A correlation coefficient used to measure the relationship between a binary variable and a continuous variable.