Presented by: Chandani Gondalia (GG036)

Every organization has goals and objectives and one important factors that affects goals is the organizational structure. Departments are entities organizations form to organize people, reporting relationships, and work in a way that best supports organization's goals. Process of departmentation takes place at all levels in the organization. accomplishment of

MEANING OF DEPARTMENTATION: Departmentation may be defined as the process of grouping individual jobs into departments. Once the total work of an enterprise is divided into individual functions and sub-functions these functions are grouped together into work units on a particular basis. The term Departmentation forms the very basis of the organization structure of any enterprise.

1. Specification of activities 2. Feeling of autonomy 3. Fixation of responsibility 4. Development of Management 5. Facility in Appraisal 6. Budget Preparation 7. Proper Supervision

Departmentation on product basis means to establish each major product (or group of closely related products) in a product line as a relatively independent unit within the overall framework of the enterprise.

Departmentation

by

geographical

considerations.

This approach to departmentation is important for organizations with physically dispersed activities.

Where

units

of

an

organization

are

physically

dispersed or where functions are to be performed in different locationsterritories, states, and cities even different buildings or one building but on different floors.

To group activities according to the period of time during which work is performed. Many organizations are engaged in round-the-clock operations and departmentalize on the basis of time by having work shifts.

To achieve an effective structure, a supervisor may have to apply several types of departmentation at the same time. This is referred to as mixed departmentation. Departmentation functional, departmentation. It attempt to capitalize on the strengths of various structures while avoiding the weaknesses of others. based on some or mixture of

product,

geographic,

customer