Company Objectives

question 46

Multiple Choice

Company objectives

• A) are needed only on a companywide basis related to a company's short-term and long-term profitability.
• B) need to be broken down into performance targets for each of its separate businesses,product lines,functional departments,and individual work units.
• C) play the important role of establishing the direction in which it needs to be headed.
• D) are important because they help guide managers in deciding what the company's strategy map should look like.
• E) should be set in a manner that does not conflict with the performance targets of lower-level organizational units.

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