Question

A plant manager organizes a plant by separating engineering, accounting, manufacturing, personnel, and purchasing into departments. The plant is departmentalized on the basis of ________. A. target customer B. product C. function D. geography E. service

Answer 1

Answer:

C. function

Explanation:

The plant is departmentalized on the basis of function. When the department is organized on the basis of specified functions, such as accounting, engineering,  manufacturing, marketing, purchase, finance, etc as a plant manager is organizing here is known as Departmentalization by Function. In this method, all the works related to a function or which are of similar nature are joined in one single unit, to give proper directions to the whole group towards same objective.