If the executives for OfficeMax developed the chain's objectives by asking buyers and store managers to forecast sales and merchandise for the next year, and then transmitted those estimates up the organization to the top level, it would be an example of ________ planning.
A) accountable
B) bottom-up
C) conventional
D) direct
E) functional

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Bottom-up planning involves lower levels in the company developing performance objectives that are aggregated up to develop overall company objectives. Buyers and store managers estimate what they can achieve, and their estimates are transmitted up the organization to the corporate executives.

If the Executives for OfficeMax Developed the Chain's Objectives by Asking