Question

If the company uses the horizontal linkage model, how can the software development department expect to do its work? Check all that apply.
(a)-Software development employees will receive customer feedback about whether the products are helpful to students.

(b)- Software development employees will have opportunities to tell the research and marketing departments if a new product idea cannot be brought to market in a timely or cost-effective manner.

(c)-Instead of getting orders from the top management about what products to make, based on what the research department recommends, software development employees will participate on teams that collect data and make decisions.

(d)-The software development department will not have contact with people and ideas outside the organization, such as educational think tanks and open source app developers.

Answer 1

Answer:

A)Software development employees will receive customer feedback about whether the products are helpful to students.

B)Software development employees will have opportunities to tell the research and marketing departments if a new product idea cannot be brought to market in a timely or cost-effective manner.

C)Instead of getting orders from the top management about what products to make, based on what the research department recommends, software development employees will participate on teams that collect data and make decisions.

Explanation:

Horizontal linkage model, gives room to departments in an organization to have relationship in working out new product such as commercial products.horizontal linkage model gives room for a good relationship between worker/employee within a particular organization.

If the company uses the horizontal linkage model, the software development department are expected to do its work by taking actions such as;

✓Receiving feedback from customers about how helpful the product is to the consumer of it.

✓ the relationship the model create will allow the software development employees to communicate with research and marketing departments

if new product ideals cannot be brought to market in a timely or cost-effective manner.

✓development employees will

have a team parformance, to collect data and make decisions.