A company is planning to revise its organizational structure and one of the managers suggests increasing employee empowerment by giving them more decision-making authority. Which of the following, if true, would support his stand?
A) The firm's employees are reluctant to disrupt the status quo and are apprehensive about any change in responsibility.
B) The firm's employees are used to an authoritative structure and clearly defined job-roles.
C) The company's front-line workers have first-hand knowledge of what can and cannot be done.
D) The company is trying to recover from an economic downturn that caused significant losses which necessitated downsizing.
E) The company culture revolves around the founder who is charismatic and in-charge kind of CEO.

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One of the main advantages of empowering employees is that front-line workers have greater knowledge of day-to-day operations and can contribute valuable insights to decision-making processes. Therefore, choice C would support the manager's suggestion to increase employee empowerment. Options A and B would suggest that employees are resistant to change, whereas employee empowerment requires a willingness to change the current status quo. Option D doesn't provide any indication of whether employee empowerment would be suitable or not in the company, while option E implies a culture that might not be amenable to empowerment.

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