As a Human Resources Consultant,you Decided to Recommend to a Business

question 22

Multiple Choice

As a human resources consultant,you decided to recommend to a business owner that she should use a contingency view to organizational design.In order to support your recommendation,what would you look at first from a business structure perspective?

• A) structural variables
• B) job design variables
• C) financial variables
• D) contextual variables

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Definitions:

Joint Costs

Joint costs occur when the production process or provision of services generates more than one type of product or output simultaneously, requiring cost allocation among outputs.

Split-off Point

The stage in a production process where different products become separately identifiable and their costs can be assigned individually.

Production Process

The sequence of operations or steps involved in producing a finished good or service from raw materials or components.

Relevant Cost

Costs that should be considered when making business decisions because they will be affected by the decision.