The top executives at a paper manufacturing plant have determined that they should restructure their workforce into self-directed teams. When should they start implementing this organizational change?

A) after all the strategic plans have been developed
B) once all resistance to change has been removed
C) as the executives are developing the strategic plan
D) once the strategy has been evaluated
E) after all legal barriers to change have been removed

You are tasked with creating a brand new food product using a team of people who are unfamiliar with the product and do not know one another.The organizational structure of this group is very loosely defined.This is an example of ______.

A) an adaptive challenge
B) a technical challenge
C) a technical and adaptive challenge
D) a non-challenge