External And Functional Departmentalization

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Departmentalization is the grouping of related activities into units. Departments may have either an internal or an external focus. Departmentalization based on the internal operations or functions that the employees perform and the resources needed to accomplish that work is called functional departmentalization. External or output departmentalization is based on activities or factors outside the organization; it is referred to more specifically as product, customer or territory departmentalization. (Lussier. R, 2000) When many units are working normal jobs in the organization, they have to cooperate to work together with each other to manage the time more efficiently and improving working efficiency.

Departmentalization by functions
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(Lussier. R, 2000) A task of this department could be making a product (or service). For example, in the kitchen of the restaurant, the mission of this whole department is cooking delicacy for the customer, then they pass the food to waiter or waitress who is in charge under the food and beverage department, he or she responsible to deliver food to their customer. Because each of them represents a defined group of products or services.

Departmentalization by customers
Grouping activities on the basis of common consumer’s behavior. Different department serve a number of particular clientele basic on their particular demands. For example, the supermarket always separate their goods into different area such as food court, daily commodity and beverage area to facilitate people 's lives. This type of departmentalization approach is often used by other organizations as well.

Departmentalization by territory (geographic)
Separating an organization depending on the areas of the country or the world served by a business. For example, Subway restaurant established in 1965 as only one small sandwich shop named “Pete’s Super Submarines” in Bridgeport, Connecticut. And in 2002, Subway became the largest restaurant chain in the United States. Subway used territory departmentalization to operating 27,809 stores in 86 …show more content…

And promote our products to everyone who is studying or working in school, the sales manager need to set up a private page on social networks such as Facebook, Wechat or Twitter and regularly updated our meal list and information before Friday. He or she also makes a poster about our products with price and contacts, then putting on the school halls if school authorities are accepted it. And she or he also being a part of kitchen department.

Accounting Manager
The mainly job for accounting manager is minimum our cost and maximum our revenue, she or he takes charge of finances and received the payment from each transaction. Accounting all the receipt and money in the end of a day and to prepare enough small changes for tomorrow. Furthermore the sales manager also work with procurement manager to control every item of expenditure, counting the total number of materials that we may use. Presenting the report for daily cost and fixed the price properly for the meal.

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