Definition of "departmentalize" []

• To organize into departments. (verb-transitive)

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• "In fact, Licenciado Flores makes an interesting observation, noting that while Mexican companies – those whose management and capital investment is entirely or mostly Mexican – continue to concentrate decision making authority in the hands of a single company leader, American companies in Mexico are more likely to departmentalize their operations and to empower the department heads with direct decision making authority."
• "It is not possible to departmentalize the securities business in the minds of the investing public."
• "Then as we began to make parts, we began to departmentalize so that each department would do only one thing."