Business A-Level
product divisions
What product divisions means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of product divisions
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Grouping by product gives each division its own profit figure and quick decisions in its own market, at the cost of duplicated support functions.
Topics that use product divisions
- Making human resource decisions: improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- delayering
- functional grouping
- human resource plan
- internal and external recruitment
- Kotter and Schlesinger
- Lewin
- matrix working
- redeployment
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