Organizing the assessor's office utilizing _________ divisions categorizes jobs according to the activity to be done.

• A. Functional
• B. Geographic
• C. Product
• D. Matrix

Answer: (A)

Grouping work by the activity to be done means organizing the office into departments based on the type of task each area handles, such as valuation analysis, field inspections, property records management, or assessment administration. This functional structure concentrates expertise, standardizes processes, and makes supervision clear within each activity, promoting consistency and efficiency across similar tasks. It’s the best fit when the emphasis is on how the work is done rather than where it’s done or what product is produced. Organizing by geography would assign work to locations, by product would group by service lines, and a matrix mixs both dimensions, which isn’t aligned with categorizing jobs strictly by the activity.