The presentation discusses line and staff functions within organizations. Line positions are directly responsible for achieving organizational goals and objectives, while staff functions provide specialized expertise and support to line positions in areas like human resources, accounting, and legal. Some advantages of the line and staff structure include better informed decision making, expertise sharing between roles, and improved coordination. However, potential disadvantages include increased conflicts and overlapping responsibilities between lines.

1. Presentation on Line
andStaff Functions
PresentedTo:Tanya Soin Gaurav
Presented By: Shreya Mathur, Samiksha Jain and Snehansh
Sethi

2. Table of
Contents
 Introduction
 Line and Staff Functions
 Line Positions
 Staff Functions
 Advantages of Line and Staff Functions
 Disadvantages of Line and Staff Functions
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
 The presentation presents view on Line and Staff
Functions.
 The purpose of the presentation is providing critical
evaluation on the usefulness of Line and Staff
Functions within an organisation.
 The presentation explains advantages and
disadvantages of Line and Staff Functions within an
organisation.

4. Line andStaff
Functions
 Line and Staff functions indicates the distribution patterns of
authority within an organisation.
 In an organisation, authority is the position given based on the
power for exercising and making decisions that affect others.
 In an organisation, ‘line’ and ‘staff’ refer to specific position or role
involved in achieving key objectives.
 The managers and employees are part of each line groups where
the role of employees is to follow the directives of the managers.
 Whereas, the staff functions are those that indirectly supports line
personnel.

5. Line andStaff
Functions
Line Positions
----- Staff Functions

6. Line Positions
 Line positions in an organisation are those that have direct
responsibility for achieving major goals and objectives of the
corporation.
 These goals and objectives are directed for the generation of
profits and revenues.
 Because of the producing and selling importance, the managers of
the organisations referring as line positions are responsible for
taking rightful ‘decisions’ within the organisation.
 Line personnel are directly involved in performing daily operations
of the business.

7. Staff Functions
 Staff functions in an organisation are those that
provides direct assistance as well as specialised
expertise to the line positions.
 Staff functions mainly includes human resources, legal,
accounting, legal, and public relations.
 Staff functions are also known as support people.
 Staff functions are not directly involved in performing
daily operations of the business.

8. Advantages of
Line andStaff
Functions
 Key decision makers of the organisations are well-
informed and properly organised.
 It provides line positions with expertise and assistance
from staff personnel.
 Better coordination among all personnel.
 Proper and practical decisions.
 Work spilt amongst the line and staff personnel for
better managerial specialisation.

9. Disadvantages
of Line and
Staff Functions
 Higher changes of conflicts in line and staff personnel.
 Lack of responsibility for official staffs as they are not
accountable operations of the organisation.
 High cost involved as large number of specialists are
required to appoint.
 Changes of overlapping are higher that can create
disorder and confusion within employees.

10. Conclusion
 Overall, it can be concluded from the presentation that
Line and Staff Functions within organisations provides
expertise and assistance for improving organisation’s
profitability.
 However, conflict management can be one of the
major disadvantages that organisations are required to
understand and work to eliminate.