The chief executive of telecommco, a large telecommunications company, wants to restructure the organization so that product leaders would have more power than the executives in charge of each region. the regional executives try to prevent this restructuring because it would weaken their power and possibly reduce their salaries in the long term. the product leaders also put up some resistance because they feel that things work just fine the way they are currently. this action by the regional executives is mainly an example of resistance due to: a. saving faceb. fear of the unknownc. direct costsd. breaking routinge. incongruent organizational systems

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above