Advantages and disadvantages of line and staff style of organizations

• Main Author: Omolaja Muhammad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship, Belgrade 2015-01-01
• Series: International Review
• Subjects: organization; staff and line managers; concepts of modern organizations
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2217-9739/2015/2217-97391504033O.pdf

In the paper we discussed the fact that the dichotomous concepts of modern organizations exist in reality. We are focused on line and staff style of organizations because they are closely knitted. In line with this, their difference might not be easily identified by the laymen in organizational analysis and management. So, the main aim of our paper was to identify certain benefits from the knowledge of line and staff organizational analysis for modern managers as well as for employed people in an organisation. In the paper is concluded that the degree or extent of complexity, dependability, stability and adaptability of the technology and techno-structure of an organization will naturally dictate the way and manner the operations of the enterprise are distributed. By implication, the technology of an enterprise always dictates its span of control authority levels and extent of delegation, responsibility assignment, and number of steps along the ladder of responsibilities.