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30 lines
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# Departmentalization
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Is the grouping of organisational units by specific criterios, for example:
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# Geographical
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Groups OU's by their geographical distribution.
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# Goods/Services
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Groups OU's by Goods and Services they provide.
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# Projects/Matrix
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Groups OU's by projects.
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# Clients
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Groups OU by the clients they work for.
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The most used type of departmentalisation is:
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# Functional
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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.
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**Advantages:**
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- The most widespread and proven.
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- Encourages specialisation.
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**Disadvantages**:
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- The objectives of the departments prevail over those of the company as a whole.
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- Requires greater coordination.
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- Not very suitable for companies with a wide territorial spread or very diversified.
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