The Safety Committee, a temporary team at Quantum Mechanics, was established to make the factory floor a safer place. Members of the committee still work in their departments full-time, but they meet twice a month for a few hours as a committee. The Safety Committee is an example of a ________ within an organization.
A) vertical design
B) modular design
C) multipurpose design
D) common purpose
E) horizontal design

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In a horizontal design, teams or workgroups, either temporary or permanent, are used to improve collaboration and work on shared tasks by breaking down internal boundaries. Team members still have their full-time functional work responsibilities and often still formally report to their own managers above them in the functional-division hierarchy.

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