What surprising results did Blau (2002) discover when investigating the relationship between organizational size and differentiation (meaning the number of organizational levels in hierarchy, number of departments, and number of job titles)?
a. He found that administrative overheads are lower in larger organizations when managers have greater span of control
b. He found that larger organizations have to employ more managers to cope with the greater number of staff
c. He found that there was no relationship between differentiation and size
d. He found that the size of an organization is disproportionate to the number of people working in it
a. He found that administrative overheads are lower in larger organizations when managers have greater span of control
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