notes/Areas/upv/classes/empresario/05-organisation/04-departmentalisation.md

# Departmentalization
Is the grouping of organisational units by specific criterios, for example:

# Geographical
Groups OU's by their geographical distribution.

# Goods/Services
Groups OU's by Goods and Services they provide.

# Projects/Matrix
Groups OU's by projects.

# Clients
Groups OU by the clients they work for.

The most used type of departmentalisation is:

# Functional
Functional departmentalization is an organizational structure where business leaders divide teams according to the professionals' areas of specialization. This means that if a company is creating a new product, there may be one team of marketing specialists, another team of software designers and a team of data scientists. These different groups work within their teams to complete tasks related to their area of focus and expertise.

**Advantages:**
- The most widespread and proven.
- Encourages specialisation.

**Disadvantages**:
- The objectives of the departments prevail over those of the company as a whole.
- Requires greater coordination.
- Not very suitable for companies with a wide territorial spread or very diversified.