"Flo" of Communication (Scenario)
Recently the employees of Chatterbox Enterprises, Inc., received a letter from the vice presidentof operations explaining that a new production facility would be built in Chatland City, AL. Itwas also stated that about one-fourth of the employees from the current Chatland City facilitywould be transferred to the new facility and if employees wanted to volunteer for the transfer,they could do so by meeting the human resource manager and filling out a request form. Sam, aproduction supervisor, first went to Florence, the purchasing manager, who had alreadyvolunteered to transfer, to discuss with her the possibility of becoming her inventory controlsupervisor at the new facility. Florence told Sam that Ruth, the current inventory controlsupervisor, would not be transferring and that she would consider his request.
【題組】13. Which of the following is NOT true about the environmental complexity of an organization?
(A) Environmental complexity increases as the number of competitors increases.
(B) It is measured in terms of the knowledge an organization needs about its environment.
(C) It depends on the knowledge an organization has about the components of its environment.
(D) Complexity decreases as the number of regulatory agencies increases.