Scenario - Windmere Technologies

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Scenario - Windmere Technologies
Windmere Technologies has been in operation since 1984.Today,Windmere is actually considered to be a globally-based firm with corporate offices in thirteen foreign nations.There is not one office of this company with higher authority or more decision making power than any other of the thirteen in operation.Windmere Technologies is recognized as a business leader in all thirteen nations in which it has corporate offices.According to the CEO of the company,"Windmere considers the world to be its home base." The management has done a good job of creating its organizational structure where people are grouped simultaneously by function and by division.
Windmere is best known for its work in creating alternative energy sources.As this is of vital concern to all nations of the world today,Windmere's ideas and products are welcomed by all nations.This business takes in revenues in excess of $8 billion per year and expects it to substantially increase in the future.
-Which one of the following would Windmere Technologies not claim as a purpose of its organizational structure?

• A) Serves as a barrier to interactions with other organizations
• B) Determines the boundaries of the organization
• C) Regulates its interactions with the environment
• D) Utilizes a division of labor system that leads to departmentalization
• E) Integrates mechanisms such as formal rules and procedures

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