Alabama Airlines Has Three Planning Specialists Who Help Division Managers

question 54

Multiple Choice

Alabama Airlines has three planning specialists who help division managers develop their own division plans. Serving as consultants to the divisions, the planning specialists give advice about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Alabama Airlines is utilizing what approach to the planning function?

• A) Centralized planning department
• B) Decentralized planning staff
• C) Planning task force
• D) Centralized planning committee
• E) TQM

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