Business A-Level
regional divisions
What regional divisions means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of regional divisions
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Reference: AQA
Grouping by region suits a firm whose customers, laws and tastes differ country by country, and duplicates more still.
Topics that use regional 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
- product divisions
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