The Primary Building Blocks Within a Company's Organizational Structure

question 30

Multiple Choice

The primary building blocks within a company's organizational structure

• A) are almost always the departments performing such key administrative support functions as finance,accounting,information technology,human resource management,and R&D.
• B) can include a functional or departmental structure that includes process,geographic,product,or customer groups performing one or more major processing steps along the value chain.
• C) typically consist of an un-empowered employee department,an empowered employee department,teams of front-line supervisors,teams of middle-level managers and administrators,and the group of top-level executives that comprise the company's "executive suite."
• D) usually consist of supply chain management,components manufacture,assembly,distribution,and administration.
• E) usually consist of two divisions-a division charged with performing primary value chain activities and a division charged with performing support activities.

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Definitions:

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