According to the Text,if You Had the Opportunity to Run

question 42

Multiple Choice

According to the text,if you had the opportunity to run a large bureaucratically structured corporation for a day,what changes should you make in order to overcome bureaucratic inefficiency?

• A) Make a flatter hierarchical structure and decentralize decision making.
• B) Make a taller hierarchical structure and centralize decision making.
• C) Eliminate all top-down communication in the organization.
• D) Eliminate all bottom-up communication in the organization.

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Definitions:

Response Tendencies

Patterns of behavior or reactions that individuals are predisposed to in response to certain stimuli.

Reinforcements

In psychology, the process of encouraging or establishing a pattern of behavior by offering rewards or consequences.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any need for prior learning.