Honeywell Inc

Multiple Choice

Honeywell Inc. reorganized its European operations along customer lines to prepare for a unified European Union. In doing so,it abandoned matrix departmentalization. What was the best reason for Honeywell to have engaged in such restructuring?

A) to create pools of resources  
B) to empower its employees  
C) to better adhere to the management philosophy of staff authority  
D) to end conflict between product managers in different parts of its matrix