At Redbone Co., employees are slowly evaluated and promoted, but they stay around until retirement. Groups make decisions and take responsibility for their decisions. Company control is informal, and everyone is concerned with the general well-being of the other employees. Employees do whatever the company needs at the time rather than following a specific job track. The environment at Redbone Co. most closely aligns with a. type J firms. b. Theory X. c. type A firms. d. Theory Y. e. Theory A.

Sunset foods relies on a highly centralized functional structure to ensure consistency in the quality and taste of its products and to drive down costs via process innovations. however, as a consequence of its highly compartmentalized structure, the firm has found it difficult to transfer information and ideas from one department to the next. with the launch of its new line of breakfast foods coming up, how can sunset improve its ability to collaborate without sacrificing the benefits of its current structure