Information Flow Activity Match the scenario on the left with the type of Information flow on the right. Place the letter of the type next to the number of the scenario. _ 1. Discount Furniture Warehouse holds a meeting every morning with the entire sales A. Upward staff. In this meeting, Sam, the manager, gives information about new furniture B. Diagonal arriving at the warehouse, current interest rates available to customers, and how close they are to meeting the company's monthly sales goals. The most important C. Downward information shared is a "hot sheet" that lists the furniture that needs to be sold ASAP because it has been on the floor or In the warehouse for more than forty five days D. Horizontal Every piece of furniture sold from the hot sheet earns the salesperson a $50 bonus, adding a little motivation to the mix. As Sam goes through the morning briefing, the sales s es staff listen, take notes, and sometimes ask a few clarifying questions, but clearly, he purpose of this daily pow- wow is to convey the information the stall needs to perform their jobs and meet the expectations of management: One afternoon, Francis knocks at Sam's office door, which is always open. Francis wants Sam to know that he has a couple interested in one of the new sola sets on the hot sheet, but it is out of their price range by just a hair. Francis knows the couple from his community involvement and really wants to bla to help them get the soko set they have their hearts set o hows he needs to get the deal past the finance manager. Francis wants to know if it is possible for him to cut the price to his customers and give up his $50 bonus fo is sofa set. Sam agrees since it really makes no difference who gets the $5( Sam picks up his phone and calls Brian, the finance manager. He explains that Francis s going to send a deal through on a hot-sheet sofa set that is $50 less than the bottom line, but if the rest of the deal is solid, Brian should approve it. Brian immediately begins to object, when Sam cuts him off and says that Francis is waiving his hot sheet bonus When Sam hangs up with Brian, he tells Francis he is set-now go sell that sof eastit's returns to his customers and tells them he thinks he has a way to make the adeal work. Brian, the finance manager, approves the deal pec his conversation with Afteremperor the customers have told Francis they need to be homeMARI RULE mes said the time and looks at the list of customers waiting for delivery. ly Stomach drops there is no way he is going to get them out of the Marshto be by wewill lose the sale. He beads over to big unions thi to find Marcie, the service manager. festther her and explains his situation haskings athere is any way he customer can be moves ahead in tog clipboard me quick calculations, and call over one of the de Ivery driversish elis him to load the sola get onto the trues because the cutlorien live will
