Organisational Structure

[dinosaur93]

Explain how divisional structure differs from a functional structure with reference to organisations that you have studied this year.

[Tintin]

Umm.okay they're basically very similar
Functional structure is when employees are grouped into specific functions/departments according to their skills and tasks being preformed. For instance, accounts will are grouped into the finance department..
Where as divisional has the fundamental structure of the functional department but these departments are furthermore divided into subsections such as location,customers and products. For example many retailers use this method, they divide sales workers based on products..apparel,electronics,
Umm or..a marketing department..of an Lso may be divided depending on the demographic of customers they are attracting

I havent really gone over busman in a while so this may not be completely accurate...

[dicknob]

I've been told different by my teacher:

Functional is where each section is based on a different function area of management: Ops, HR, R&D, Finance, Marketing.. etc and there is a manager and team for each function

Divisional is where the company is broken up into divisions based on either products or geographical location: His iconic example is apple, where they have a division for iPad, iPhone, iPod, iMac and each division has one or more members from the Ops, HR, R&D, Finance etc etc working with them on that one product.
An example for geographical location could be any transnational corporation where they have an Australian Division, American Division, Asian Division and each division has team members related to the functional areas again.

Hope this helps