Organizing a Company's Work Effort to Promote Successful Strategy Execution

question 27

Multiple Choice

Organizing a company's work effort to promote successful strategy execution involves:

• A) deciding how much to spend on training managers and employees.
• B) deciding which value chain activities to perform in-house and which to outsource,and making internally performed strategy-critical value chain activities the main building blocks in the organization structure.
• C) choosing an organization structure that is a tight fit with the corporate culture.
• D) hiring a capable management team.
• E) instituting a compensation structure that reduces employee turnover and thus stabilizes the makeup of work teams.

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