Departmentation is process of grouping activities and people onto department make it
possible to expend organization. After reviewing the plan, usually the first step in the
organization process is departmentalization. Once job have been classified through
work specialization, they are grouped so those common tasks can be
coordinated.Departmentlization is the biases on which work or individuals are
grouped into manageable units. There are five traditional methods for grouping work
activities.
Thus workflow analysis can be used tighten the connection between employees’ work
and customers needs. Also it can help to make major performance breakthroughs
throughout business process reengineering (BPR).A functional rethinking and
radical redesign of business process to achieve dramatic improvements in costs,
quality, service, and speed.BPR use workflow analysis to identify jobs that can be
TYPE OF DEPARTMENTATION:
1-DEPARTMENTATION BY NUMBERS:
Dpartmentation by number is telling off persons who are to perform the same duties
and putting them under the superior of a manager the essential fact is not what these
people do, where they work? Or what they work with, it is that the success of the understanding depends only on the number of persons include in it. This method is
rapidly applying in army.
DISADVANTAGES OR DECLINES REASONS;
There are many reason of decline of departmentation by numbers.
1-It has declined due to advance technology and demand of specialized and different
skills.
2-A second reason is groups composed of specialized personnel are more efficient
then those based on number.
3-Departmentation by number is useful only at the lowest level of the organization.
