Standish Is Planning to Double the Size of His Workforce

question 111

Multiple Choice

Standish is planning to double the size of his workforce to accompany an expansion in the number of retail outlets that carry Custom Leather products.Lacey tells him that he should expect the organizational design to become more ________ as a result of this change.

• A)mechanistic
• B)functional
• C)organic
• D)modular
• E)decentralized

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Definitions:

Sample Evidence

Data or material obtained from a select group out of a larger population, used to infer or make generalizations about the population.

Standard Deviation

It quantifies the variability or dispersion across a set of data points by calculating the average distance from the mean for each data point.

Variance

A statistical measure of the spread of a set of scores, calculating the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Sample Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a sample population, calculated by taking the mean of squared deviations from the sample mean.