The Primary Building Blocks Within a Company's Organizational Structure

Multiple Choice

The primary building blocks within a company's organizational structure:

A) are almost always the departments performing such key administrative support functions as finance,accounting,information technology,human resource management,and R&D.
B) can include process departments,traditional functional departments,geographic organizational units,and divisional units performing one or more major processing steps along the value chain (components manufacture,assembly,distribution) ,and individual businesses (in the case of a diversified company) .
C) typically consist of an un-empowered employee department,an empowered employee department,teams of front-line supervisors,teams of middle-level managers and administrators,and the group of top-level executives that comprise the company's "executive suite."
D) usually consist of supply chain management,components manufacture,assembly,distribution,and administration.
E) usually consist of two divisions-a division charged with performing primary value chain activities and a division charged with performing support activities.