Paula Starts a New Bakery Business

Multiple Choice

Paula starts a new bakery business. Because she must meet specific requirements from the state health department, Paula decides to use a mechanistic structure for management. What demonstrates Paula's choice to organize and control the business with a mechanistic structure?

A) The organization uses the structure only when needed-when the organizational environment is unstable.
B) A mechanistic structure requires more managerial time, money, and effort than an organic structure.
C) Employees are closely supervised and follow well-defined rules and standard operating procedures.
D) Authority is decentralized to middle and first-line managers to encourage them to take responsibility.
E) Managers can react more quickly to a changing environment than can managers in an organic structure.