MANAGEMENT

An organization should get various activities done through its staffs to achieve the organizational goals the activities differ on the basis of nature process procedure skill required timings etc if a staff or a group of staffs tries to perform all the activities at a time they cannot perform effectively sometimes some task they have equal importance and may required equal priority so it is as very essential to classify the activities of the organization logically into some manageable units the process of grouping of action into smaller manageable unit is called departmentation
Departmentation facilitates over all coordination of the activities and optimum utilization of organizational resources it provides advantage of specialization of work in the organization it increases operating skills and efficiency of an enterprises it is one of the primary task in designing an organizational structure it is a process where task are group into jobs , jobs into effective work group and word group into identifiable segment or department it helps for effective control supervision coordination between organizational activities . this is one of the commonly used basis for departmentation according to this basis de4partments are establish on the basis of the nature of the functions to be performed in the organization like finance production marketing human resources a Marjory function can farther be divided into sub function if required a team along with specialized department head is assigned responsibility of a department it focuses on specialized department head is assigned responsibility of a department if focused on specialization .