Business A-Level
centralised decisions
What centralised decisions means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of centralised decisions
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Keeping decisions at the top, which is fast in a crisis and consistent across sites.
Topics that use centralised decisions
- Making human resource decisions: improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- delayering
- functional grouping
- human resource plan
- internal and external recruitment
- Kotter and Schlesinger
- Lewin
- matrix working
- product divisions
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