Human Resource Management 7th Edition by Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart, Patrick Wright

Exercise 15

In terms of organizational design, would you describe the structure at General Motors, where all the budgets are authorized by the CEO (and not the managers of Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet, and Cadillac products) centralized or decentralized What are some of the drawbacks with that specific type of structure, and how did that figure into Saturn's demise