Top management at Topdown,Inc.wants to encourage communication between different departments and prevent employees from becoming narrow specialists.The best way to accomplish these goals is to departmentalize Topdown's organization by function.
Two disadvantages of functional departmentalization are that it tends to reduce communication among departments,and employees often end up becoming narrow specialists.

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Functional departmentalization can lead to reduced communication between departments and employees becoming narrow specialists, which contradicts the goals of encouraging communication and preventing specialization.

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