According to standard operating procedures, every customer at McDonald's is greeted with the words, "Welcome to McDonald's, may I take your order?" The practice corresponds with which characteristic of a bureaucracy?

a. a clean-cut division of labor
b. positions filled on the basis of qualification
c. personnel treat clients as cases
d. authority belongs to the position, not the person


c

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