While many compensation and promotion programs encourage competition and hard work, it does not foster collaboration, and can lead to distrust and disloyalty. As a consequence, many companies now explicitly include measures of collaboration in their performance measures. How might managers of separate divisions be able to reduce division costs through collaboration

The company is experiencing an increase in competition, and at the same time they are building more production facilities in southeast asia. in this scenario, the top management team is most likely to multiple choice increase the cost of their products. restructure to reflect a more bureaucratic, stable organization. pull decision-making responsibility from low-level management, taking it on themselves. give lower-level managers the authority to make decisions to benefit the firm. rid themselves of all buffering product.