Managerial Jobs with Strategy-Making Responsibility

question 94

Multiple Choice

Managerial jobs with strategy-making responsibility

• A)extend throughout the managerial ranks and exist in every part of a company-business units, operating divisions, functional departments, manufacturing plants, and sales districts.
• B)are primarily located in the strategic planning departments of large corporations.
• C)are relatively rare because most strategy making is done by the members of a company's board of directors.
• D)seldom exist within a functional department (e.g., marketing and sales)or in an operating unit (a plant or a district office)because these levels of the organization structure are well below the level where strategic decisions are typically made.
• E)are found only at the vice-president level and above in most companies.

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