6. Combined departmentalization
In combined departmentalization, a company or an organization uses a mixture or combination or union of two or more different bases of departmentalization.
For example, in practice, owing to rising market competition and emerging complexity of tasks most organizations often uses a combination of above-discussed (see point no. 1 to 5) types (i.e. methods or bases) of departmentalization.
Departmentalization by using a combination of two or more different bases is shown in the following diagram.