You Are Writing a Proposal to Restructure Your Department's Organizational

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Multiple Choice

You are writing a proposal to restructure your department's organizational chart. Your manager was a member of the committee that originally set up the department's current structure. Which purpose statement would be best for a proposal to your manager?

• A) The purpose of this proposal is to show how we can reorganize our department to improve our efficiency while keeping intact the values that have allowed us to succeed to this point.
• B) The purpose of this proposal is to show how to solve all of our productivity problems and remove all the barriers to effective communication.
• C) The purpose of this proposal is to show why it's time for "out with the old and in with the new."
• D) The purpose of this proposal is to explain why we have no choice but to scrap our ineffective organizational structure.

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