Managers often find it necessary to change an organization's degree of

centralization or decentralization. On the following two very different scenarios,

this issue has arisen:

Scenario A. You're the top manager in a large organization with a long and

successful history of centralized operations. For valid reasons beyond the scope

of this exercise, however, you've decided to make the firm much more

decentralized. Now do the following:

1. For Scenario A, list the major barriers to decentralization that you foresee.