Refer to the Scenario Below to Answer the Following Questions

question 84

Multiple Choice

Refer to the scenario below to answer the following questions.
Lightspeed.com (Scenario)
Edwin Edwards is a team leader for Lightspeed.com, an e-business that has employees in every global time zone. Some of the factors that the team has to contend with are deadlines, strong work ethic, creativity-innovation chain, high-speed turnaround, and professionalism. As team leader, Edwin sees team members via videoconference only a few times per year or via compressed video via Internet a few times more per year. A frustration that he is encountering himself is that he works with all of these people and does not have control over their "actual" work or the few organizational rules, regulations, and policies. Yet, due to the position he is in, he feels he gets all of their complaints. The team does not deal well when a member offers an "off-the-wall" solution to a team problem; team members seem to have more trouble with this than any other team-conflict issue) What he likes most about leading the team is that they seem to prefer getting their objective accomplished instead of wasting time trying to decide who should be doing what tasks.
-If Edwin decided to replace some employee work time with a new telephone menu system, this would be an example of __________.

• A) job rotation
• B) work specialization
• C) formalization
• D) decentralization
• E) automation

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Definitions:

Anterior

Refers to the front or forward direction in the body's anatomy.

Lumbar

Relating to the lower part of the spine, consisting of five vertebral bones between the ribcage and pelvis.

Intercarpal

Relating to the joints and spaces between the carpal bones of the wrist.

Metacarpophalangeal

Referring to the joints between the metacarpal bones of the hand and the proximal phalanges of the fingers.