In prescribing policies and procedures that facilitate independent action on the part of empowered employees for good strategy execution, companies need to do ALL of the following EXCEPT
A)give organization members clear direction and place reasonable boundaries on their actions.
B)empower employees to act within the company's set boundaries in pursuit of company goals.
C)allow company personnel to act with some defined degree of freedom, especially when individual creativity and initiative are more essential to good strategy execution than standardization and strict conformity.
D)institute policies that give employees substantial leeway to carry out activities in the way they think is best.
E)produce policy manuals on strategy execution that prescribe exactly how daily operations are to be conducted.

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The other choices (A, B, C, and D) all suggest ways in which companies can facilitate independent action on the part of empowered employees. However, producing policy manuals that prescribe exactly how daily operations are to be conducted would be counterproductive to this goal, as it would stifle individual creativity and initiative. The other choices emphasize the importance of giving employees some degree of freedom within defined boundaries in order to execute strategy effectively.

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