In a Well-Structured Organization, Management Will Strive to Achieve Goal

Multiple Choice

In a well-structured organization, management will strive to achieve goal congruence. While managers may find that they are being evaluated on the performance of their own business unit, the overall congruence of goals must be kept in mind when setting objectives for these managers. Which of the following represents a suboptimal outcome that is misaligned with the company-wide objective of saving money?

A) Sanford, the plant manager, knows that a large machine needs to be replaced in order to get orders done on time, but Sanford chooses not to replace the machine since this was not in his budget for the year.
B) Susan, a manager, makes her employees clock-out during the last fifteen minutes of their shifts, but they must stay to complete their work to help the company save on expenses.
C) Teresa, an assembly line worker, has advocated for her department to hire an occupational therapist to evaluate repetitive work injuries and reduce sick time used to recover from these on-the-job injuries.
D) Trent, a production employee, chooses to donate some of his unused sick time to a fellow employee so that the company will not penalize the department for having to cover that employee's short-term leave.