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

question 37

Multiple Choice

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.

• A) decentralized
• B) highly formalized
• C) aggressively managed
• D) highly centralized
• E) informally structured

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Definitions:

Symbolic Power

The capacity to control, legitimize, and enforce meanings, symbols, and cultural norms without using direct physical force.

Racial Domination

A societal condition where one racial group subjugates and maintains power over another racial group through economic, political, social, and institutional means.

Accumulation

The process of gradually gathering or acquiring an increasing number or quantity of particular items or substances.

Static Definition

A fixed or unchanging explanation of a term, concept, or phenomenon that does not allow for variation or evolution over time.