line and staff organization
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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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