line and staff organization

LINE AND STAFF ORGANIZATION

Oldest type of organization followed.

Each department is a complete self contained unit.

a separate person will look after the activities of

the department and he has full control over the

department.

followed mainly in military organization.

Under this the line organization,authority flows from

top to bottom vertically.

LINE ORGANIZATION

`BOARD OF DIRECTORS

GENERAL MANAGER

PURCHASE M

PRODUCTION M

SALES MFINANCIAL M

WORKERS

WORKERS

WORKERS

WORKERS

STAFF ORGANIZATION

various specialists are selected for various

functions performed in an organization.

workers receive instruction from various

specialists, who are working at a supervision level.

WORK MANAGER

ENGINEERSUPERINTENDE

NT

ROUTE CLERKTIME AND COST

CLERK

WORKERS

LINE AND STAFF ORGANIZATION

line officers have the authority to take

decisions and implement them to achieve

the objectives of the organization

staff officers give advice and sevices to

the line officers. staff officers are generally

experts in a particular field.

the authority flows from top to bottom

through the line officers,while staff

officers gives advices at various

department .

full authority is headed by line officers

regarding planning,implementatioj and

control of workers

PROBLEMS

ARGUMENTS OF LINE OFFICERS AGAINST

STAFF OFFICERS

• staff officers have only theoretical knowledge.

• much of advice given is impractical because they

are not responsible for the results.

• they take into account only the departments

goal,not the organizations goal as a whole.

• staff officers blame line officers when failures

happen whereas are keen on getting credit for

success.

ARGUMENTS OF STAFF OFFICERS AGAINST LINE OFFICERS

• line officers completely neglect the

advice given by the officers

• line officers hesitate to accept new

ideas

• they simply reject the advice without

considersing its validity.

• some line officers are not ready to ask

for any advice from the staff officers.

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