Kraft Foods has created five global product divisions-beverages,snacks,cheese and dairy,convenience meals,and grocery. It also has two marketing divisions-one for North America and the other for everywhere else. According to the systems approach to management,what are these seven divisions examples of?
A)work units
B)functional systems
C)closed systems
D)subsystems

Question

Kraft Foods has created five global product divisions-beverages,snacks,cheese and dairy,convenience meals,and grocery. It also has two marketing divisions-one for North America and the other for everywhere else. According to the systems approach to management,what are these seven divisions examples of?
A)work units  
B)functional systems  
C)closed systems  
D)subsystems

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The seven divisions -beverages, snacks, cheese and dairy, convenience meals, grocery, marketing division for North America, and marketing division for everywhere else- are examples of subsystems according to the systems approach to management. Subsystems are smaller units within a larger system that work together to achieve the overall goals of the system. In this case, each division contributes to achieving the overall goals of Kraft Foods as a company.

Kraft Foods Has Created Five Global Product Divisions-Beverages,snacks,cheese and Dairy,convenience