Amana Highway Collaborative (Scenario)
The Regional Planning Council convened a group of stakeholders, including the Department of Transportation and the Department of Community Affairs, who are interested in working together on improving a major highway called Amana Highway. Firas is the senior planner for the Regional Planning Council. Firas successfully obtained a technical assistance grant. The intent is to organize the 15 small communities along Amana Highway into an intergovernmental unit. All of the communities will share the same visioning processes of mission, objectives, and tasks. Firas is now charged with developing a strategic plan for this group, called the Amana Highway Collaborative.
-While each community in the Amana Highway Collaborative maintains its identity and independence, Firas believes that the leverage of multi- governmental applications will ultimately secure more major funding in the future. However, due to the intergovernmental nature of the organization, Firas, although in charge of the collaborative, wields little direct power over any community member individually. Which contingency factor best represents Firas' situation?
A) Environmental uncertainty.
B) Level in the organization.
C) Measurability of the goal.
D) Time frame of future commitments.

Question

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Firas' situation is best represented by the contingency factor of level in the organization. As the senior planner for the Regional Planning Council, Firas has been charged with developing a strategic plan for the Amana Highway Collaborative, but he wields little direct power over any community member individually due to the intergovernmental nature of the organization. This means that Firas must work at a level in the organization that emphasizes collaboration and influence rather than direct control or authority.