Alabama airlines has three planning specialists who division managers develop their own division plans. serving as consultants to the divisions, the planning specialists give advice about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. alabama airlines is utilizing which of the following approaches to the planning function?
a. centralized planning department
b. decentralized planning staff
c. planning task force
d. centralized planning committee
e. tqm

(B) Decentralized planning staff

Explanation:

The decentralized planning staff is one of the type of organizational structure that handle all the responsibility and the operations in an organization.

The importance of the decentralized planning staff is that it helps in making various types of decisions and also motivating them by developing various types of functions in an organization.

 According to the question, the decentralized planning staff is one of the approach for planning various types of functions for the betterment and this approach is also known as the grass root based planning.  

Therefore, Option (B) is correct.