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Julie is an attorney that works for Worldwide Food Science,Inc.that provides legal advice and assistance to the firm's managers.Julie's job with WFS,Inc.would be classified as a staff position.

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A bureaucracy empowers employees to quickly respond to customers' wants and desires.

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The more standardized the work,the wider the span of control.

Outsourcing involves assigning various functions to outside organizations.

Cross-functional self-managed teams are groups of employees empowered to work with suppliers and customers to develop new products and give great service.

An organization chart shows who is accountable for the completion of specific work and who reports to whom.

Weber was critical of bureaucrats because he felt they undermined the efficiency of the organization.

Last week at Happy Trails Financial Services Company,all financial advisors who each serve more than 150 clients received a notice from the VP of Operations that every client's investment portfolio should consist of 50% individual stock purchases,25% bonds,and 25% property.Advisors were ordered to review all client portfolios for compliance to this directive.Clearly,Happy Trails is an inverted organization because management directives such as the one described are very common.

The team experts in a matrix organization remain part of the traditional line-and-staff structure.

John recently accepted a job in the marketing department with the Burbank Bagel Boys.After just a few days on the job,John learned that the company has many layers of management,and seems to have a rule to cover almost every situation.These conditions suggest that Burbank Bagel Boys is a(n) :

The Connecting Through Social Media box titled,"When Twitter and Facebook Are Old School," discusses the lifecycle of social media and predicts that this media will lose its appeal when businesses realize it is not adding to the bottom line.

The Connecting Through Social Media box titled,"When Twitter and Facebook Are Old School," speculates that as social media incrementally changes,we will see changes in ________________.

Max Weber believed that promotion should be based solely on seniority.

The success of the firm often depends on assigning the right tasks to the right person.

Greenwave Garden Centers is a national chain of discount gardening stores.The top management at Greenwave realizes that different regions of the United States have very different climates and soil conditions,so they give regional managers a great deal of freedom to decide exactly what types of plants,fertilizers,and other items to stock and how to best market these products.Greenwave is an example of a _______________ organization.

Weber was a strong proponent of bureaucracy.

In open organizations the informal organization can be:

Improvements in information technology have permitted companies to increase their span of control.

Which of the following describes a group of employees from different departments working together on a long-term basis?

Which of the following correctly identifies the explanation behind the unity of command principle of management?