According to the contingency viewpoint to designing span of management,which one of the following situations would warrant a relatively wide span of control?
A)supervising a team of scientists engaged in complex research work
B)supervising a team of factory workers sewing buttons onto shirts
C)managing a virtual team of engineers spread across several countries
D)managing a highly interdependent production team
E)managing and coordinating the activities of a marketing team

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A wide span of control is more manageable when the work is simple and repetitive, as in supervising factory workers sewing buttons onto shirts, because it requires less direct supervision and allows a manager to oversee a larger number of employees effectively.

According to the Contingency Viewpoint to Designing Span of Management,which