The most common building blocks for a company's organizational structure ________.

Question

A) are almost always the departments performing such key administrative support functions as finance, accounting, information technology, human resource management, and R&D.
B) involve a functional or departmental structure that includes process, geographic, product, or customer groups performing one or more major processing steps along the value chain.
C) typically consist of an unempowered 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 who 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.

Answer 1

B) involve a functional or departmental structure that includes process, geographic, product, or customer groups performing one or more major processing steps along the value chain.
It is most common for companies engaged in a single line of business to utilize a functional (or departmental) organizational structure that organizes strategy-critical activities into distinct functional, product, geographic, process, or customer groups.