Portia is meeting with her subordinates to determine which workers from her department need training in order to handle production increases expected during the next nine months. Portia is involved in   

A. vision development.
B. operational planning.
C. controlling.
D. tactical planning.
E. developing an MBO.


B. operational planning.

Operational planning is done by first-line management to determine how to accomplish specific tasks with available resources within the next 1-52 weeks.

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A) insured; beneficiary; money; policyholder B) policy owner; beneficiary; face amount; insured C) policy owner; insured; face amount; beneficiary D) beneficiary; premium payer; face amount; policy holder E) none of the above

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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