For strategic management to be effective in achieving organizational goals,
A) people throughout the organization must work in isolation.
B) top managers only take an integrative, strategic perspective.
C) leaders alone are responsible for the organizational outcome.
D) people throughout the organization must strive toward overall goals.

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Strategic management requires managers to take an integrative view of the organization and assess how all of the functional areas and activities fit together to help an organization achieve its goals and objectives. This cannot be accomplished if only the top managers in the organization take an integrative, strategic perspective of issues facing the firm and everyone else fends for themselves in their independent, isolated functional areas. Instead, people throughout the organization must strive toward overall goals.

For Strategic Management to Be Effective in Achieving Organizational Goals