Which is true about higher levels of management?

A) The complexity of relationships that need to be understood and managed is greater.
B) The problems that need to be solved are more routine and clearly defined.
C) The number of activities to be coordinated is smaller.
D) There is less variation in the activities that need to be coordinated.

Higher levels of management deal with more complex relationships and broader scopes of operation, which means they must understand and manage a greater complexity of relationships compared to lower levels of management. Choices B, C, and D describe characteristics more typical of lower levels of management, where tasks can be more routine and clearly defined, and the scope of coordination is narrower.