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Students of administration have long sought a single principle of effective departmentalization just as alchemists sought the philosophers' stone. But they have sought in vain. There is apparently no one most effective system of departmentalism.

— Luther H. Gulick

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The efficiency of a group working together is directly related to the homogeneity of the work they are performing.

It is appropriate at the outset of this discussion to consider the reasons for and the effect of the division of work. It is sufficient for our purpose to note the following factors.

A workman subject to orders from several superiors will be confused, inefficient, and irresponsible; a workman subject to orders from but one superior may be methodical, efficient, and responsible.

The theory of organization... has to do with the structure of co-ordination imposed upon the work-division units of an enterprise.

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