What are the advantages and the disadvantages of departmentalization?

Advantages :

1. Specialization. Like a mass production chain each doing only certain job all the time until they are really experts in what they do.

2. Excellent communication because they have a very specific requirement and output. Automation will come nautrally to this scheme.

3. Efficient.

Disadvantages :

1. Defenseless against changes.

2. Almost impossible to have a vision because everybody's deep into each own "mission".

3. Recruitment becomes a problem because the requirement too specific.