Functional Approach- The functional structure is the most commonly used by most businesses. It’s a top-down flowchart with a high ranking executive at the top, with multiple middle managers – such as the human resources, marketing, accounting and engineering department heads – all directly reporting to the senior executive. The strength of this system is that it’s easy to understand, and keeps businesses neatly compartmentalized
I request you to elaborate on the following point. As I chose to suggest a divisional approach I would request that you elaborate as to both your reasoning and logic for suggesting the utilization of a functional approach in regards to this problem statement? I realize that it is readily applicable for a single store or perhaps two to three stores offering products to utilize a functional approach but on such a large scale basis as 12 retail stores, a wholesale store and two farms which I would presume will eventually begin offering products as well do you legitimately feel that a functionally organizational approach will be sufficient to support multiple sites spread across a potentially broad geographic distribution? Divisional organizations can be defined as “organizations restructured to group all functions into a single division and duplicate each of its functions across all the divisions.” (Bateman & Snell, 2015.) This of course is opposed to a functional organization which is defined as “jobs and departments specialized and grouped according to business functions and the skills they require.” (Bateman & Snell, 2015.) thoughts?