Organizational structure, as well as the different elements it encompasses, is an important factor in the overall design of any business. Establishing a clear picture of a department's responsibilities, categorizing roles and functions, and defining where people fit in the chain of command can make daily tasks and decisions easier for both employees and managers. Additionally, smart planning and organization can also have a big impact on a company's bottom line, with an efficiently organized business saving money by reducing redundancies and improving processes and workflow. By describing and analyzing the general organizational structure present at the Dakkota Integrated Systems plant in Windsor, one can identify both its strengths and weaknesses. Departmentalization is a method of subdividing work and workers into distinct organizational units that assume responsibility for completing particular tasks. Dakkota Integrated Systems is structured according to functional departmentalization. There are seven main departments with six distinct organizational groups. The Engineering, Quality, Materials, Operations, HR and Accounting departments are autonomous, while the IT group is nested within the Accounting department and reports to its manager. This current structure has worked well for Dakkota over the past seven years of business, due to a few key benefits. Each department was able to focus and develop the skills of its employees to a high level of competence. This allows a wide range of complex projects and issues to be managed by a relatively small number of employees within the department. This advantage is reinforced by the fact that the skill level of each employee within a department...... middle of paper...... The vast majority of positions in the factory are considered to be specialized jobs. Job specialization is widely used to reduce training and turnover costs and increase efficiency. Great care is taken in designing processes and responsibilities within each role to increase the benefits mentioned above. Additionally, considerable emphasis is placed on job rotation, as a means of providing variety, cross-training and health benefits to operators on the line. Task enlargement is also used quite often, in order to balance workloads across the line and will sometimes provide workers with greater job satisfaction depending on the task added. In contrast, job enrichment is implemented in relatively few positions, with the exception of team leaders. They have more authority to decide the best way to accomplish certain tasks..