1) There is no best way of department zing that is applicable to all organizations & all situations.
2) Managers must determine what is best by looking at the situation they face, the jobs to be done, & the way they should be done, the people involved & their personalities, the technologies employed in the department, the users being served & other internal & external environmental factors in the situation.
3) Departmentation is not an end in itself but is simply a method of arranging activities to facilitate the accomplishment of objectives
4) Each method has its own advantages & disadvantages. Selection of a specific departmentation pattern should be done so that organizational & individual objectives can be achieved effectively & efficiently. Accomplishing this goal often requires mixing the forms of departmentation.
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