Quality Paper Products utilizes a structure that includes functional divisions, such as accounting and production, and a divisional chain of command, such as the home products and office divisions. For example, Mary Beth, a salesperson, reported to both her sales manager and the office products manager when she first started working on the city of Springfield account. Quality Paper Products has developed a ________.
a. hollow structure
b. geographic-divisional structure
c. team-based approach
d. modular structure
e. matrix structure
Ans: e. matrix structure
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