Firms with production, marketing, human resource, and finance departments have a process form of organization.
The building blocks of all organizations are specialization and departmentalization.
International organizational structures developed in response to the need to manufacture, purchase, and sell in global markets.
Employees' abilities and the supervisor's managerial skills help determine whether span of control is wide or narrow.
Accountability means that subordinates are responsible for accomplishing tasks assigned by managers.
The practice of grouping jobs into units is called departmentalization.
Acme Oil Company has three divisions: Exploration, Extraction, and Refining. This is an example of process departmentalization.