QUESTION $8$

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?

organize the business units around serving the government, gardening stores, and kitchen stores

group employees by accounting, marketing, design, production, and so on

create complete business units in Oregon, Kansas, and Alabama

structure business units according to the technology used to create products

group business units by rakes, furniture, shelving, and kitchen goods

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QUESTION $9$

SB Stationary is the low$-$cost producer of one type of standard notepad. Given that it operates in a fairly stable environment, the company focuses on making its product as efficiently as possible. Which of the following approaches to organizational design is likely to be appropriate for SB Stationary?

$$ organic

mechanistic

matrix

global

multi$-$divisional