In an Organization, People in Line Functions View Themselves as the Critical

Multiple Choice

In an organization, people in line functions view themselves as the critical organizational resource and people in staff functions as secondary players. Acting on this belief, the line function constantly uses its supposedly lofty status as the producer of goods and services to justify putting its interests ahead of the other functions' interests. Based on this information, the organization is at which stage of Pondy's model of organizational conflict?

A) manifest conflict
B) conflict aftermath
C) felt conflict
D) latent conflict