A Production Department in a Company Has Been Experiencing Several

Multiple Choice

A production department in a company has been experiencing several production problems for the past few months. When production managers investigate, they discover that materials management always buys inputs from the lowest-cost sources of supply and makes no attempt to develop the kind of long-term relationships with suppliers that can raise the quality and reliability of inputs. At which stage of Pondy's model of organizational conflict is the company in?

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