BUS 272 Study Guide - Final Guide: Departmentalization, Bop It, Good Governance

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Likeya

Document Summary

It is easier and less costly to find and train employees to do specific and repetitive task. Departmentalization: the basis on which jobs are grouped together, departments often start protecting their own turf and not interacting well with departments, functional departmentalization: Major advantage is to obtain efficiency from putting people with common skills and orientations together into common units: product departmentalization: Departmentalized by the type of product the organization produces. Major advantage is increased accountability for product performance, since all activities related to a specific product line are under the direction of a single manager: geographical departmentalization: On the basis of geography or territory. If a(cid:374) orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)"s (cid:272)usto(cid:373)ers are s(cid:272)attered o(cid:448)er a large geographi(cid:272)al area a(cid:374)d ha(cid:448)e similar needs based on their location, then this form of departmentalization can be valuable: process departmentalization. Can be used for processing customers as well as products: customer departmentalization: Basis of the particular type of customer the organization seeks to reach.