Edwin Edwards is a team leader for Lightspeed.com, an e$-$business that has employees in every

global time zone. Some of the factors that the team has to contend with are deadlines, strong

work ethic, creativity$-$innovation chain, high$-$speed turnaround, and professionalism. As a team

leader, Edwin sees team members via videoconference only a few times per year or via

compressed video via Internet a few times more per year. A frustration that he is encountering

himself is that he works with all of these people and does not have control over their "actual"

work or the few organizational rules, regulations, and policies. Yet, due to the position he is in$,$

he feels he gets all of their complaints. The team does not deal well when a member offers an

"off$-$the$-$wall" solution to a team problem. Team members seem to have more trouble with this

than any other team$-$conflict issue. What he likes most about leading the team is that they seem

to prefer getting their objectives accomplished instead of wasting time trying to decide who

should be doing what tasks.

$27)$ If Edwin decided to remove a layer of managers and increase the span of control, he would

be making a change in which of the following categories?

A$)$ technology

B$)$ people

C$)$ processes

D$)$ structure