Understanding Business
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259929434
Author: William Nickels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8, Problem 1CT
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To think critically about: Whether the division of labor is necessary and helpful or not.
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Division of work among different individual is known as division of labor. Assigning a specific task to a specific individual, who excels in that tasks increases the efficiency of the business as a whole.
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