Many organizations have a large number of functional areas with very diverse and sometimes competing interests.Such organizations will be most effective if:
A) each functional area focuses on achieving their own goals
B) functional areas work together to attain overall goals
C) goals are defined at the bottom and implemented at the top
D) management and employees have separate goals

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Strategic management requires managers to take an integrative view of the organization and assess how all of the functional areas and activities fit together to help an organization achieve its goals and objectives. This cannot be accomplished if only the top managers in the organization take an integrative, strategic perspective of issues facing the firm and everyone else fends for themselves in their independent, isolated functional areas. Instead, people throughout the organization must strive toward overall goals.

Many Organizations Have a Large Number of Functional Areas with Very