Maria, a senior product manager at Impasse Software, recently retired. Since sales of Maria's primary products have been declining for years, the human resource manager decides not to replace her and instead reassigns all of her subordinates to different departments. What is this an example of?

Attrition

Explanation:

Attrition is the process of reducing or relinquishing the strength of an organization or a group to either form another or to seize existing. Due to the losses occurring to Maria's product the manager decided to dissolve the department she headed and join them to other groups, this is synonymous to Attrition.

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