Royal Dutch/Shell Group formed a team to improve revenues for its service stations along major highways in Malaysia. This team, which included a service station dealer, a union truck driver, and four or five marketing executives, disbanded after it had reviewed the Malaysian service stations and submitted a business plan. The Malaysian group is called:
A)a friendship group.
B)a community of practice.
C)a commuter group.
D)a task force.
E)an informal group.

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The team formed by Royal Dutch/Shell Group to improve revenues for its service stations in Malaysia is a task force. A task force is a temporary group formed specifically to solve a particular problem or address a particular issue, and once the problem has been solved, the group is disbanded. The fact that this particular group disbanded after it had reviewed the Malaysian service stations and submitted a business plan confirms that it was indeed a task force.

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