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Consultants Exceptional (CE) Has Hired You to Develop Training Materials

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Consultants Exceptional (CE) has hired you to develop training materials for their consultants. Your first assignment is to develop a training program that helps their consultants to analyze and understand the organizational structure of the company that they are assisting. CE believes that in order to adequately evaluate and understand a client company, consultants need to understand the basic organizational structure of the company. Consultants are then able to recommend actions and changes based on the company's structure.

-Your trainees are given a case study concerning a local manufacturing firm called Acme Products. In assessing Acme's organizational structure, your trainees notice that all of the company's decisions are made by top management, with little or no input from lower-level personnel. The trainees most likely identify Acme as a(n) ________ organization.

Definitions:

Prevalence Of Involuntary Commitment

The frequency or rate at which individuals are hospitalized or treated against their will for mental health issues, based on legal or medical evaluations.

Insanity Defense

A legal defense by which a defendant claims they were unable to understand the nature of their crime due to a mental disorder.

Public Perceptions

The collective beliefs or opinions held by the general population about specific topics or issues.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process whereby behaviors are influenced by consequences, including reinforcement and punishment, as proposed by B.F. Skinner.