Business A-Level
decentralised decisions
What decentralised decisions means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of decentralised decisions
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Pushing decisions down, which puts them next to the local market and hands over the responsibility that motivates.
Topics that use decentralised 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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