Question

How is the organization you work for departmentalized? Is it effective? (If you are not working pick a place you previously worked for)

Answer 1

Departmentalizatoon means structuring the organization into different different groups or department according to the specialization of the work they do. This helps any organisation whether product or service based to achieve higher efficiency and effectiveness in their growth.

For example I work for a Multinational IT company.

It has departments like Products, Engineering, Human resources, Finance, Procurement, Facilities and Support teams.

Functions or specialization of the department:

1 products- this deals with the core products they sell. They take care of the marketable products development and updates.

2 Engineering- this deals with the R&d part, looks for developing new products.

3. Human resources- this take care of the people management policies and recruitments.

4. Finance- this team looks for the accounting and financial planning part. They take care of the financial results and accounting part.

5.Procurement- they take care of onboarding vendors or contractors. They maintain the requisitions and purchase orders.

6. Facilities- this team looks after the office admin and facility part. All the facilities provided to the employees on floor are taken care by them.

7. Support teams- they support the customers issues and move ot forward to concerned departments for its resolution.

So these are the few core departments in my company which may be mostly common in any organisation of same business.

Yes these are effective as each of them work on their functional specialization, there is more productivity and efficiency all across the organization.