At present, the hospital has 35 clinical, 11 subclinical and 8 functional departments.

There is also a general feeling that a co-ordination unit will result in more pressure and control on functional departments.

Each minister was charged with overseeing a functional department of government.

In a functional department we face quite properly increasing pressure on our resources.

At present, the hospital has 7 functional, 19 clinical and 8 subclinical departments.

For example, the social services department within a local authority is a functional department.

Authority would be shared between the project coordinators and the heads of the functional departments.

The company's structure was very hierarchical, centralized and dominated by the functional departments, on the French model.

In this workshop the team members from the functional departments together build the product development activities into a project plan.

Traditional marketing is said to use the functional (or 'silo') department approach.