- Professional and efficient
- Reactive to things and implements them
- Measurements are costs
- Lower risk and reward

Functional Manager Attributes

- Adaptation occurs when transitioning from functional to divisional
-Varies in strategy, operations, personal life, risk taking, and performance evaluation

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- Functional organizations usually incorporate centralization more than decentralization
- Focus on developing more technical skills
- Focus on specialization pushed decision-making forward

Centralization in Functional Organizational Archetypes

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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