Refer to Oakland Athletics. Other teams have an average payroll of $85 million. Beane’s payroll for the Athletics is only $33 million. His ability to be frugal and yet build a successful team is in large part due to his ability to set goals, give directions, and assign tasks. In other words, Beane excels in ____.

A) consideration
B) creating instrumentality
C) using decision rules
D) initiating structure
E) participative management


Ans: D) initiating structure

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