Why is power an important concern in an alliance prior to making an organizational commitment?
What will be an ideal response?
Power is rarely equal among members of a collaborative effort. However, the group must achieve a melding of powers and balance the inequities. Equity is the goal, not equality.
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The most common building blocks for a company's organizational structure
A. usually consist of two divisions-a division charged with performing primary value chain activities and a division charged with performing support activities. B. usually consist of supply chain management, components manufacture, assembly, distribution, and administration. C. are almost always the departments performing such key administrative support functions as finance, accounting, information technology, human resource management, and R&D. D. 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 that comprise the company's "executive suite." E. 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.
When employee performance is easily measured and the organization's performance is fairly stable over time, the most effective type of compensation is to offer
A. a variety of rewards with significant incentive pay. B. a large base pay and low incentive pay. C. a variety of rewards in addition to base pay. D. monetary rewards with large incentives.
The random variable x is the number of occurrences of an event over an interval of 10 minutes. It can be assumed the probability of an occurrence is the same in any two time periods of an equal length. It is known that the mean number of occurrences in 10 minutes is 5.3 . The probability there are 8 occurrences in 10 minutes is _____
a. .0241 b. .0771 c. .1126 d. .9107
Under which design specification category for interfaces and dialogues does speed of performance appear?
A) Narrative Overview B) Interface/Dialogue Designs C) Testing and Usability Assessment D) Database Design