Project Summary: Topic 1: Hierarchical and Decentralized Control Use the organizational context of your current or past place of employment. Most organizational cultures display some aspect of both hierarchical and decentralized control. Describe an example of each that you have practiced or observed in your organization. After each example, advance your own assessment as to how employees react and respond to each type of control. Topic 2: The Balanced Scorecard Read and study The Balanced Scorecard on page 634. A balanced scorecard contains four major perspectives: financial performance, customer service, internal business processes, and the organizations capacity for learning and growth. Describe the advantages of using a balanced scorecard to measure and control organizational performance. Use your current or past organizational context to identify and discuss specific customer service metrics that are practiced to determine how well the organization is achieving its customer performance goal How well do we serve our customers? ID: GM501-05-07-D