Your advertising agency is considered one of the most innovative in the city, which has allowed you to attract the best and brightest employees in the industry. Unfortunately, however, once they’re on board, employees often become dissatisfied. Generally speaking, internal communication is poor and morale is low, and you believe these issues are holding your organization back from achieving its full potential. Recently, you hit upon an idea that you think will solve these problems. Instead of organizing your employees by function, you want to organize them into dedicated teams, one for each of your major clients. Your VP and other department heads agree, even though it will mean major changes in their job responsibilities. In terms of a dual-core approach, which of the following is true? a. This plan is related to the management core because it involves organizational structure.
b. This plan is related to the management core because is alters the job responsibilities of top managers.
c. This plan is related to the technical core because teams will be dedicated to individual customers.
d. This plan is related to the technical core because it aligns teams according to the expertise and skills of each member.

2. the external environment (connect)choose whether each example belongs in the general, task, or internal environment.exampleenvironmenta worldwide recession task environment / general environment / internal environmentlocal mothers asking their community grocery store to carry no-salt cheerios-type cereal for their babies task environment / general environment / internal environmentchoose the phrase that best completes the following sentence.the relationship between the task environment and the general environment is best described as: a one-way system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, but changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment.an open system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, and changes in the general environment affect the task environment.a one-way system: changes in the general environment affect the task environment, but changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.a closed system: changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment, and changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.©bloomberg via getty imagesmanagement in the newsin april 2010, the explosion of british petroleum’s (bp) deepwater horizon oil drilling rig and the accompanying oil spill dramatically changed the external environment in which all oil companies operate. the explosion released more oil than any other accidental spill in history and had a huge impact on the waters and surrounding communities of the gulf coast. the conditions that led to the spill, the attempts to stop the spill, and the clean-up and aftermath of the spill prompted debates in the u.s. senate, concern on wall street, and attention from companies all over the world.match each oil spill event with a specific dimension of the general environment.eventgeneral environment dimensionbp stock prices falling 25% during the first month after the oil spill oil seeping into pelican nesting grounds, which will place the brown pelican back on the endangered species list people moving from louisiana to oklahoma to avoid the effects of the spill