Your organization is organized with functional departments. It has encountered the following problems. What coordinating mechanism would you select to manage each problem? Justify your selection.
a. The number of workplace accidents has increased greatly in all the departments.
b. Departments are competing with each other for budgets and other scarce resources resulting in dysfunctional conflicts.
c. The research, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing departments disagree on product specifications and performance features, and new products are being delivered too late to market as a result.