Scenario A.Everyday Fashions Corp.is a clothing manufacturer.It has marketing,production,and finance departments,with a manager who heads each of the departments.Beatrice,the CEO,distributes the various organizational tasks to each manager by assigning authority and responsibility.Each manager has ten subordinates who are required to report to him or her.Each department works on its set of tasks in the organization.Beatrice is the top manager,followed by the department heads,and lastly the supervisors.All the managers are accountable to Beatrice alone.
-In Scenario A,Everyday Fashions Corp.utilizes the ________ departmentalization model.

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In a functional departmentalization model, the organization is divided into departments based on the functions or tasks they perform such as marketing, production, and finance. This is the model used by Everyday Fashions Corp as described in the scenario, with separate departments for marketing, production, and finance, each headed by a manager.