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Mia, vice president of operations, was looking to make her company more efficient and asked Cesar to manage the reorganization of the order fulfillment center, even though he was less experienced than many of the managers in that department. Cesar found that the other managers were not cooperative in giving him access to their current procedures or ideas about new ones, and he felt powerless to compel them. Mia most likely made the mistake of

A) delegating responsibility without adequate authority to Cesar.

B) underestimating Cesar's capabilities.

C) "passing the buck" by blaming Cesar's performance.

D) taking credit for Cesar's accomplishments.

E) assigning inappropriate tasks to a junior manager.

Andre is a new product designer for a restaurant supply company. Andre therefore works in a ________ department.

A) functional

B) service

C) line

D) matrix

E) staff

In Scenario B, Bernardo, by saying that the company must work toward achieving lower costs per unit of production, is advocating for

A) diseconomies of scope.

B) economies of scale.

C) diseconomies of scale.

D) economies of scope.

E) economies of size.

Which of the following statements about types of economies is true?

A) An organization's large size often creates economies of scope but not scale economies.

B) An organization's large size often creates scale economies but not economies of scope.

C) An organization's large size often creates scale economies and economies of scope.

D) An organization's small size often creates scale economies but not economies of scope.

E) An organization's small size often creates scale economies and economies of scope.

Which of the following statements about right-to-work states is true?

A) They do not permit union shops.

B) They ban unions from all industries except government.

C) They require government employees to join unions.

D) They require workers to join unions.

E) They permit unions in all industries except government.