What are the merits and demerits of Departmental Typing?

Under this method, each department of the organization appoints a typist, who does the typewriting work of the department exclusively. It has its own merits and demerits as follows.

Merits of Departmental Typing

1. A Departmental typist, when doing the typewriting work of a particular department, will become familiar with the technical words.

2. The typist is always at the disposal of the executive.

3. The typist or stenographer will be more sincere and responsible when he is attached to a particular department.

4. Efficient, accurate and neat work is the result.

5. The possibility of committing errors in letters is few.

6. Stenographers attached to a particular department are familiar to the tone and pronunciation of the executive.

7. Likes and dislikes of the executives are known to the typist or stenographer, he can work with confidence.

Demerits of Departmental Typing

1. The typewriting of the whole organization is not distributed evenly, because some may have more work and some may have less work or no work at all.

2. This method is uneconomic.

3. This system disturbs the department by the sound caused by typewriter.

4. When the executive is away or on tour, the typist has no work. He talks with his colleagues and interrupts their work.