What are some advantages of the functional structure?
• Simple and clear; coordination left to top management
• Reduces overhead
• Provides clearly marked career paths for hiring and promotion
• Employees work alongside colleagues who share similar interests
What are some disadvantages of the functional structure?
• Coordination of functional tasks is difficult; little reward for cooperation with other groups since authority resides with functional supervisor.
• Provides scope for different department heads to pass-off company project failures as being due to the failures of other departments.
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