You Have Just Been Assigned the Task of Developing an Innovative

question 137

Multiple Choice

You have just been assigned the task of developing an innovative new product,using people from engineering,marketing,purchasing,and one or two other departments in the organization.To help the group to be as creative as possible,you would:

• A)give the team a very tight deadline to come up with a creative ideA.
• B)threaten to fire any team member who suggests a silly idea that wastes time in the product-development process.
• C)encourage competition among team members as to who has the best job performance.
• D)move these employees out of their departments and into a common area where they can continuously communicate with each other.
• E)apply all of these activities.

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Definitions:

Employees Organizes

The process by which workers come together to form a union or similar collective bargaining group.

Functional Lines

Divisions within an organization based on different functions or departments such as marketing, finance, and operations.

Functional Expertise

Specialist knowledge and skills in a particular field or area of business.

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale as fixed costs are spread out over more units of output.