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    Departmentalization refers to grouping activities into departments based on common functions, products, customers, geography, processes, or divisions. One popular type is functional departmentalization, which involves grouping activities according to the function performed, such as human resources, IT, accounting, manufacturing, logistics, and engineering, in order to facilitate specialization and coordination across shared skills and knowledge.

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    Departmentalization refers to grouping activities into departments based on common functions, products, customers, geography, processes, or divisions. One popular type is functional departmentalization, which involves grouping activities according to the function performed, such as human resources, IT, accounting, manufacturing, logistics, and engineering, in order to facilitate specialization and coordination across shared skills and knowledge.

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    Departmentalization refers to grouping activities into departments based on common functions, products, customers, geography, processes, or divisions. One popular type is functional departmentalization, which involves grouping activities according to the function performed, such as human resources, IT, accounting, manufacturing, logistics, and engineering, in order to facilitate specialization and coordination across shared skills and knowledge.

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    Departmentalization refers to grouping activities into departments based on common functions, products, customers, geography, processes, or divisions. One popular type is functional departmentalization, which involves grouping activities according to the function performed, such as human resources, IT, accounting, manufacturing, logistics, and engineering, in order to facilitate specialization and coordination across shared skills and knowledge.

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    What is departmentalization?

    Departmentalization refers to the process of grouping activities into departments and it is


    the basis for grouping position into departments and departments into the total organization.
    Why is it required?
    Division of labor creates specialists who need coordination. This coordination is facilitated by
    grouping specialists together in departments.

    Popular Types of Departmentalization
    Functional departmentalization
    Product departmentalization
    Customer departmentalization
    Geographic departmentalization
    Process departmentalization
    Divisional departmentalization

    Discuss any one form of departmentalization.

    Functional departmentalization:

    Grouping activities by functions performed. Activities can be grouped according to function
    (work being done) to pursue economies of scale by placing employees with shared skills and
    knowledge into departments for example human resources, IT, accounting, manufacturing,
    logistics, and engineering. Functional departmentalization can be used in all types of
    organizations.

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