Managers in a home improvement company have been having problems with employees starting cliques. to develop more of a team culture, the ceo suggested utilizing mary parker follett's belief: companies shoulda. increase diversity. b. implement a more rigid environment. c. utilize time-motion studies. d. operate as a community, with employees working in harmony. e. strive to cut costs and increase efficiency.

Option D

Explanation: Mary Parker believed that management is the art of making people do things you want. To achieve this both senior and subordinates should work in collaboration.

In the given case, the employees in the organisation are starting cliques, that is they are not accepting the outsiders and are not communicating with them. Thus, if the employees develop an attitude that they are a community then they could collaborate with each other.

Hence from the above we can conclude that the correct option is D.