Line and staff organization

1. LINE AND STAFF ORGANIZATION

2. 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

3. ` BOARD OF DIRECTORS GENERAL MANAGER PURCHASE M PRODUCTION M SALES M FINANCIAL M WORKERS WORKERS WORKERS WORKERS

4. 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.

5. WORK MANAGER ENGINEER SUPERINTENDENT ROUTE CLERK TIME AND COST CLERK WORKERS

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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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