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In short, use departments when you are trying to represent a user's placement within an organizational chart, and use groups to represent the various functions a user might carry out.

To manage groups, access go to Setup Users > Setup Groups. Note that each group created can be tied to a specific organization, although not necessarily so. As mentioned earlier, a user can belong to multiple groups and, unless restricted, a group can have members that spans span several organizations.