Imagine that you have just accepted a job at a company with a matrix structure. The company is a consulting firm that provides business strategy advice to its corporate clients. Employees are assigned to both a functional area and to a customer group division. You are working in the Marketing and Sales department, and you are assigned to the Small Business Accounts division.

Answer the following question.

In your new job, which of the following can you expect? Check all that apply.

If the environment is rapidly changing, the company will be able to respond quickly.

Two$-$boss employees will have to resolve conflicts between the competing priorities of their managers.

It will be difficult to raise new issues and resolve them because horizontal and vertical communication is limited$.$

Very little time will be spent in meetings and on other communication.