Which of the Following Statements About Functional Strategies Is Best

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about functional strategies is best?

• A) Functional strategies are not impacted by the mission statement; instead they are impacted by the overall business strategy.
• B) Functional strategies determine the overall business strategy.
• C) Many functional level strategies could readily be described as cross-functional.
• D) A firm's operations and supply chain strategy is more important than their marketing, finance and engineering strategies.

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Definitions:

Fixation

An obsessive focus or attachment to certain behaviors, people, or developmental stages, often hindering emotional development.

Mental Set

A cognitive tendency to approach situations in a fixed way based on previous experiences, potentially inhibiting problem-solving.

Confirmation Bias

The bias towards selecting, decoding, favoring, and reminiscing over data that corroborates one's prior beliefs or conjectures.

Perceptual Set

A tendency to perceive or notice some aspects of the available sensory data and ignore others.