The Company is experiencing an increase in competition, and at the same time they are building more production facilities in Southeast Asia. In this scenario, the top management team is most likely to

give lower-level managers the authority to make decisions to benefit the firm.

Explanation:

As in the question it is mentioned for the Southeast Asian markets that there is fastest demand of competition that enables quick decision making and also contains the knowledge about the market

Also the top management is in home country and Southeast asian would be in host country so in this case the top management is not in the position to understand the market due to which they are not able to take the decisions so for this they gives the authority to the lower level managers for the same

Hence, the first option is correct

answer about 4-5 percent of the labor force is unemployed;