Mazie Heads Grass Roots Diversified, a Company That Started Making

question 51

Multiple Choice

Mazie heads Grass Roots Diversified, a company that started making garden rakes in Oregon and has now diversified into a huge range of areas totally unrelated to gardening. Grass Roots has become impossible to run under its current configuration. How should Mazie redesign the organization?

• A) create complete business units in Oregon, Kansas, and Alabama
• B) group business units by rakes, furniture, shelving, and kitchen goods
• C) group employees by accounting, marketing, design, production, and so on
• D) structure business units according to the technology used to create products
• E) organize the business units around serving the government, gardening stores, and kitchen stores

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