The Chief Disadvantages of a Decentralized Organizational Structure Include

Multiple Choice

The chief disadvantages of a decentralized organizational structure include:

A) increasing the size of the corporate bureaucracy.
B) slowing a company's response times to changing external events because approval of what course of action to take has to go up the chain of command to the top of the management bureaucracy.
C) discouraging lower-level managers and rank-and-file employees from exercising initiative,engaging in creative thinking,and taking responsibility for their actions.
D) putting the organization at risk if empowered employees happen to make many "bad" decisions,especially if higher-level management is unaware of their actions.
E) creating more layers of management.