Chapter 4 - Written Assignment 1. For each of the following, would you expect to see a more organic or mechanistic structure and why? To justify your answers, briefly state your assumptions about the main activities and the environment faced in each situation. a. Research and development department of a pharmaceutical company b. Baggage-handling operations of an airline 2. For each of the following situations, explain whether a centralized vs. decentralized structure would be more effective. a. A quickly growing company whose only line of business is selling vacuum cleaners. Their core competence is selling door-to-door. Right now, they are expanding to the 20 U.S. states where they do not already operate. There are 300 employees, and 250 of them are salespeople, while the rest are support staff working in areas like order fulfillment, accounting and marketing b. A manufacturing plant with many relatively unskilled workers. They assemble various products, which change based on contracts brought in by the sales team. Workers can be moved from product to product because the work is designed so almost anyone can do it. This way, if a production worker quits, they can quickly and easily be replaced