Scenario A.Everyday Fashions Corp.is a clothing manufacturer.It has marketing,production,and finance departments,with a manager who heads each of the departments.Beatrice,the CEO,distributes the various organizational tasks to each manager by assigning authority and responsibility.Each manager has ten subordinates who are required to report to him or her.Each department works on its set of tasks in the organization.Beatrice is the top manager,followed by the department heads,and lastly the supervisors.All the managers are accountable to Beatrice alone.
-In Scenario A,each manager at Everyday Fashions Corp.has ten supervisors who are required to report to him or her.This is an example of

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This is an example of span of control, which refers to the number of subordinates who report directly to a manager. In this case, each manager has ten subordinates reporting directly to them.