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The three components of building a capable organization are
A) making periodic changes in the firm's internal organization to keep people from getting into a
comfortable rut, instituting a decentralized approach to decision-making, and developing the appropriate
competencies and capabilities.
B) hiring a capable top management
team, empowering employees, and establishing a strategy-supportive
corporate culture.
C) putting a centralized decision-making structure in place, determining who should have responsibility
for each value chain activity, and aligning the corporate culture with key policies, procedures, and
operating practices.
D) staffing the organization, building core competencies and competitive capabilities, and structuring the
organization and work effort.
E) optimizing the number of
core competencies and competitive capabilities, making sure that all
managers and employees are empowered, and maximizing internal operating efficiency.
The primary building blocks within a company's organizational structure
A) are almost always the departments performing such key administrative support functions as finance,
accounting, information technology, human resource management, and R&D.
B) can include process departments, traditional
functional departments, geographic organizational units, and divisional units performing one or more major processing steps along the value chain (components manufacture, assembly, distribution), and individual businesses (in the case of a diversified
company).
C) typically consist of an un-empowered employee department, an empowered employee department,
teams of front-line supervisors, teams of middle-level managers and administrators, and the group of
top-level executives that
comprise the company's "executive suite."
D) usually consist of supply chain management, components manufacture, assembly, distribution, and
administration.
E) usually consist of two divisions—a division charged with performing primary value chain activities
and a division charged with performing support activities.