Organizations: Structure, Design, and Partnership
As we've reiterated numerous times, in order to be effective in our profession, we have to be businesspeople—not just HR professionals. Our profession is our craft, our skill. We need to be prepared to knowledgeably practice that craft within the organizations we support. In order to do so, one of the many things we need to understand is how organizations are structured.
As we begin to take a look at how organizations are functionally organized, let's go back and revisit Henri Fayol. Fayol identified six functional groups within organizations, and suggested that all organizational activities can fit into one of those six functional areas:
Technical activities
Commercial activities: sales and marketing ...
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