Which one of the following is not a benefit of prescribing policies and operating procedures to aid management's task of implementing strategy?
A) Painting a set of white lines that places limits on independent behavior and channels individual and group efforts along a path more conducive to executing the strategy.
B) Providing top-down guidance to operating managers, supervisory personnel, and employees regarding how things need to be done and what behavior is expected
C) Promoting the creation of a work climate that facilitates good strategy execution
D) Helping build employee commitment to adopting best practices and using the tools of TQM and Six Sigma
E) Helping enforce consistency in how particular activities are performed in geographically scattered organization units
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