Bernd Pischetsrieder, chief executive of Volkswagen, announced restructuring plans for the company. VW is Europe's largest carmaker and needed to make itself profitable once again. To do so, VW cut thousands of jobs in the ensuing years through natural attrition, early retirement, and buying workers out of their contracts. The
carmaker also considered whether its component parts factories in Brunswick, Kassel, and Wolfsburg were helping
VW accomplish its organizational goal. Pischetsrieder blamed much of the company's problems on restructuring that was done in 1993. He insisted that the company is missing a whole generation of managers because its former CEO eliminated a whole layer of management. Now, 45 percent of managers were expected to go into retirement in the following three or four years.
-Refer to Volkswagen. The restructuring efforts mainly involved which of the management functions?
A) leading
B) commanding
C) resource allocation
D) organizing
E) controlling

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Organizing is deciding where decisions will be made, who will do what jobs and tasks, and who will work for whom. The restructuring of VW involved mainly personnel issues.

Bernd Pischetsrieder, Chief Executive of Volkswagen, Announced Restructuring Plans for the Company