Question

Which one of the following statements regarding the task of staffing the organization in a manner that facilitates strategy execution is false or inaccurate?

A. The quality of an organization's people is always an essential ingredient of successful strategy execution--knowledgeable, engaged employees are a company's best source of creative ideas for the nuts-and-bolts operating improvements that lead to operating excellence
B. Without a smart, capable, results-oriented management team, the implementation-execution process ends up being hampered by missed deadlines, misdirected or wasteful efforts and/or managerial ineptness.
C. The overriding aim in building a management team should be to replace weak executives who lack strong skills in closely supervising the people who work under them
D. It is difficult for a company to competently execute its strategy and achieve operating excellence without recruiting and retaining a large band of capable, engaged, high-achieving employees
E. In turnaround and rapid-growth situations, and in instances when a company doesn't have insiders with the requisite know-how, filling key management slots from the outside is a standard organization-building approach

Answer 1

Answer: The overriding aim in building a management team should be to replace weak executives who lack strong skills in closely supervising the people who work under them

Explanation: The success of an organization is dependent on several factors including the presence of strategic and result oriented executive within its workforce. This is a vital and important aspect of building and organization capable of withstanding the competirmtuve nature of the market. Being strategic requires smartness, knowledge, experience, expertise and skills in other to make proactive suggestions required to execute groundbreaking projects.

Hence, based on the options provided above, the aim of strategic execution should not be focused on replacing executives who are perceived as being weak.