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Explain how a subunit within an organization can acquire power or influence in decision making in their favor.

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// This paper is going to deal with the importance of subunit within an organization, which acquires power or influence for making decisions in their favor.//

A subunit can exercise power and control over the decision making process in numerous ways. A perceptive organizational culture and structure empowers the subunit to have a control over the resources, information and centrality. For example, in a pharmaceutical company, the research and development (R&D) department generates the resources and thus exercises the power. ...

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