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Reflect on your reading for the week, specifically Analytical Exercise 8. Is another form of structural configuration better suited to multiproduct, multiservice companies? If not, is there a form of departmentalization for multiproduct, multiservice companies which would match somewhat the divisional structure configuration?"

Explain how the following somewhat match each other:
• functional structure with simple structure
• divisional structure with departmentalization by product
• machine bureaucracy with centralized, mechanistic structure
• professional bureaucracy with decentralized, organic structure

Analytical exercise 8 is as follows:

1. Explain how the following somewhat match each other:

• functional structure with simple structure

• machine bureaucracy with centralized, mechanistic structure

• professional bureaucracy with decentralized, organic structure

• divisional structure with departmentalization by product