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Consider an organization you are familiar with, have or are currently working in. Can you define at least one problem in its design? What are the symptoms of the problem? What could have been done to solve the problem?

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Almost 150 words on the issues personally encountered by an expert with administration at a regional university.

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I was working as a teaching assistant in one of the universities in a regional area couple of years ago, and to my surprise I found that the administrative structure of the university was too wide and irrelevant. There were ...

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