Northwestern Data Systems has adopted a new organizational approach with regard to information flow, ensuring that employees have access to the data they need, when they need it. Aware of this new approach, Stacy, an administrative assistant working for a manager in the sales department, requests a report regarding disciplinary action on a manager outside her department. Despite the new company policy, her request is denied, most likely because
A) the new approach does not apply to internal matters, but only to customer relations.
B) free flow of information is an attitude rather than a guide to specific actions.
C) as a policy, free information flow applies only to top management.
D) Stacy's supervisor has a responsibility to give information but not a right to receive it.
E) neither she nor her supervisor has any demonstrable reason to access such information.
E) neither she nor her supervisor has any demonstrable reason to access such information.
The new approach at Stacy's company, "boundarylessness," means that ideas, information, and decisions move to where they are most needed. This does not imply a random free-for-all of unlimited communication and information overload; rather, it implies information available as needed moving quickly and easily enough that the organization functions far better as a whole than as separate parts. In Stacy's case, there is nothing to indicate that she actually needs the information she has requested.
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