Ch$.2.$ Strategic management is:

Select one:

a$.$ a pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable an organization to achieve its goals.

b$.$ the process of decidington a strategic direction by defining a company's mission and goals, its external opportunities and threats, and its internal strengths and weaknesses.

c$.$ the organization's strategy; the ways an organization will attempt to fulfill its mission and achieve its long$-$term goals.

d$.$ The process of devising structures and allocating resources to enact the strategy a company has chosen.

e$.$ is a process to address the organization's competitive challenges by integrating goals, policies, and action sequences into a cohesive whole.