LB Brands,a Western Canada marketing company,had grown to 100 employees.Joan Farris the Vice President of Marketing spends much of her day developing and coaching people and helping to solve problems.She has a prescribed employee performance management process.She feels that decisions concerning her employee staffing,training and performance appraisals are her responsibility.Jay Carter,the Vice President of HR,feels that LB Brands must have consistent HR practices and that staffing,training and performance management decisions must be centralized in the HR department.
-Please refer to Scenario 1.1.What decision making authority does the Vice President of Marketing have?

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Line authority gives a manager the power to make decisions and give orders to subordinates in their own department. In this scenario, the Vice President of Marketing has line authority over staffing, training, and performance appraisals in her department.

LB Brands,a Western Canada Marketing Company,had Grown to 100 Employees