Managers often find it necessary to change an organization’s degree of centralization or decentralization. On the following two very different scenarios, this issue has arisen: I) Scenario A. You’re the top manager in a large organization with a long and successful history of centralized operations. For valid reasons beyond the scope of this exercise, however, you’ve decided to make the firm much more decentralized. II) Scenario B. Assume the exact opposite of the situation in Scenario A: You still occupy the top spot in your firm, but this time you’re going to centralize operations in an organization that’s always been decentralized. Now do the following: 1. For Scenario A, list the major barriers to decentralization that you foresee. 2. For Scenario B, list the major barriers to centralization that you foresee. 3. In your opinion, which scenario would be easier to implement in reality? In other words, is it probably easier to move from centralization to decentralization or vice versa?

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Analyze the photo below and answer the question that follows. photo by perry quan what kind of service does the facility in the photo above provide, according to christaller's central place theory? a. low-order service b. high-order service c. low-growth service d. specialized-need service

What kind of government is based on the idea of popular sovereignty?