Organizational Structure

                         ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

                   Organizations have to adopt a combination of styles of departmentation in order to  

ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished without any hindrance. In any departmentation,

there has to be clear relationship among the functions and functionaries, clarifying the duties and responsibility, line of authority and deligation of power in the organisation.

The hierarchical structure in any organization is formed by:

             LEVEL OF AUTHORITY→RESPONSIBILITY→ACCOUNTABILITY.

These relationships are established as either 'LINE' or 'STAFF' functions.

LINE FUNCTIONS: Functions authorized to directly determine what should be done and how to act for achieving the primary goals and objectives.These involve direct supervision over subordinates 

engaged in the main operations of the enterprise.

STAFF FUNCTIONS: It is that part of organization that assists and advises the line on matters concerning its functions and for efficiently carrying out its duties.

Here, 

 Financial matter under finance department, marketing under  Marketing department,engineering under operations,Resources manager under HR department, IT manager under MIS department comes under LINE FUNCTIONS.

Accounting,auditing under finance, sales under marketing, productions, labours under operations, trainers under HR etc...are STAFF FUNCTIONS.

Traditionally,on the basis of authority-relationships,there are 5 principal organization structure types:

1. line organization
2. Line and Staff organization
3. Functional organization
4. Line and functional organization
5. Committee organization.

                                                     

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