The President of Digital Equipment Corporation Discovered That His Company

The president of Digital Equipment Corporation discovered that his company was having a problem with counterproductive product groups that were working selfishly rather than cooperating with one another.To solve the problem, he combined the company's twelve product groups into three regional management centres.This solution is referred to as departmentalisation by

A) location.
B) function.
C) product.
D) customer.
E) objective.