Management (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9789332585874
Author: P. Robbins Stephen And Coulter Mary
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 3RDQ
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Whether an individual disagree or agree with the statement that “the basic responsibility of the manager is to focus on coordinating the work activities of people to accomplish the desired result”
Introduction:
A manager is an individual that administers or controlsa group of staff or an organization. In other words, a manager is in charge of a certain subset of a company or a certain group of tasks.
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