Larger organizations:
A) make greater use of standardization than do smaller firms.
B) have similar structures to smaller organizations.
C) operate without any form of departmentalization for long periods of time.
D) make lesser use of informal communication as a coordinating mechanism.
E) are never decentralized.

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Larger organizations should have different structures than smaller organizations. As the number of employees increases, job specialization increases due to a greater division of labor. The greater division of labor requires more elaborate coordinating mechanisms. Thus larger firms make greater use of standardization to coordinate work activities.

Larger Organizations