Business A-Level
functional grouping
What functional grouping means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of functional grouping
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Reference: AQA
Grouping by specialism concentrates expertise and spreads the cost of a single finance or marketing team, but breeds silos and pushes every cross cutting decision upward.
Topics that use functional grouping
- Making human resource decisions: improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- delayering
- human resource plan
- internal and external recruitment
- Kotter and Schlesinger
- Lewin
- matrix working
- product divisions
- redeployment
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