When Work Activities Are Too Complex to Standardize Through Procedures

question 57

Multiple Choice

When work activities are too complex to standardize through procedures or goals,companies often coordinate work effort:

• A)through direct supervision.
• B)by extensively training employees.
• C)by giving one employee most of the tasks previously divided among many people.
• D)through further division of labour.
• E)through formal hierarchy.

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