- Varies in strategy, operations, personal life, risk taking, and performance evaluation
- Field is an important factor in managerial style as well 

Divisional Managerial Style

- Process through which an organization's structure is changed from being organized in functional department
- Markets, clients, and locations serve as criteria for this

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- Generally structured around outputs needed to complete tasks
- Usually applies to products 

Organizational Archetypes: Divisional

Hax, Arnoldo C., and Nicolas S. Majluf. Operations Research, vol. 29, no. 3, 1981, pp. 417–47. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/170106. Accessed 18 Jul. 2022.
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Organizational Design: A Survey and an Approach

Divisionalization

- Added autonomy is preferred
- Decisions are made at regional manager's level 
- Decisions don't fall elsewhere
- Advantage for regional managers over other positions in both types of organizational archetypes

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