A telecom company cascades a company-wide goal to 'Increase Revenue by 8%' down to individual sales targets, but managers set these individual targets unilaterally without any employee input, contradicting the lecture's MBO principle of joint goal setting. A director claims 'since the targets are cascaded, they must automatically be MBO-compliant.' Which evaluation BEST addresses this claim?

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This is inaccurate: cascading sets the goal hierarchy, but genuine MBO also requires collaborative goal setting between manager and employee

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This is accurate, since the lecture treats cascading goals and MBO as functionally identical concepts

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This is inaccurate only because cascading goals is not discussed as a concept anywhere in the lecture's content

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This is accurate: any cascaded goal automatically satisfies the lecture's Management by Objectives requirements

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