While preparing for a final examination in organizational behavior, you and a student in another class review the important information regarding organizational structure and design.During the conversation, the other student suggests that just about everything you need to know about organizational structure can be based on knowing the different types of departmentalization.In other words, all of the key features of organizational structure, including a structure's fundamental requirements and elements, are found in descriptions of functional structure, divisionalized structure and other forms of departmentalization.Discuss the accuracy of this statement.

It is generally False to say that departmentalization covers all the topics and issues in organizational structure and design.To answer this question, students should describe departmentalization and what information this element provides, then identify organizational design elements that are not included in departmentalization.
Generally, departmentalization lays out the organizational chart for the organization.It determines how employees are grouped, how power is distributed, how work is organized and what interdependencies exist.Departmentalization also provides some information about the type of coordination.However, this element does not explicitly describe the other three elements of organizational design: span of control, centralization and formalization.For example, it is possible to have a matrix structure with low or high formalization and a wide or narrow span of control.Similarly, a functional structure might be highly centralized or decentralized.A certain level of centralization isn't inherent in a functional structure.The three types of coordinating mechanisms include informal communication, formal hierarchy, and standardization.