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If you were managing a department of college professors, how might you structure the department differently than if you were managing a department of bookkeepers? Why?

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The solution examines managing an organization of college professors. How to structure the department differently than if you were managing a department of bookkeepers.

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Since bookkeeping is less specialized, I would structure the department based on experience and types of programs used. This focus on experience is more likely to work because the more one works with books, the more types of problems and solutions one can have experience with. The department could be structured so that those with less experience would work with only a single aspect of keeping books such as A/R, Payroll, giving them a chance ...

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