Lightspeed.com (Scenario) Edwin Edwards Is a Team Leader for Lightspeed.com, an E-Business

question 26

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Lightspeed.com (Scenario)
Edwin Edwards is a team leader for Lightspeed.com, an e-business that has employees in every global time zone. Some of the factors that the team has to contend with are deadlines, strong work ethic, creativity-innovation chain, high-speed turnaround, and professionalism. As a team leader, Edwin sees team members via videoconference only a few times per year or via compressed video via Internet a few times more per year. A frustration that he is encountering himself is that he works with all of these people and does not have control over their "actual" work or the few organizational rules, regulations, and policies. Yet, due to the position he is in, he feels he gets all of their complaints. The team does not deal well when a member offers an "off-the-wall" solution to a team problem. Team members seem to have more trouble with this than any other team-conflict issue. What he likes most about leading the team is that they seem to prefer getting their objectives accomplished instead of wasting time trying to decide who should be doing what tasks.
-If Edwin decided to replace some employee work time with a new telephone menu system to improve productivity,this would be an example of ________.

• A)work specialization
• B)formalization
• C)decentralization
• D)automation

Understand the role of management and workplace policies in preventing and addressing workplace injuries and disorders.

Recognize the significance of information systems in managing hazardous materials in the workplace.

Understand the distinctions between different types of stress and their effects on individuals.

Familiarize with health and safety legislation and the responsibilities of employers, supervisors, and workers.

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Definitions:

Temporal

Relating to time or the temples of the skull.

Frontal

Pertaining to the frontal plane, which divides the body into anterior and posterior sections, or relating to the frontal lobe of the brain.

Anterior Fontanel

The largest and most noticeable soft spot on a baby's skull, allowing for brain growth and situated at the junction of the frontal and parietal bones.

Lambdoid Sutures

The serrated joints connecting the parietal bones with the occipital bone in the skull, resembling the Greek letter lambda.