CMA Foundation · Fundamentals of Business Economics and Management · Organisation Structure, Responsibility, Accountability and Delegation of Authority
A company has a production manager (line) and an HR specialist who only advises the production manager on recruitment norms, with no power to command production workers. This arrangement is best described as:
This is a line and staff organisation. The production manager holds line authority, while the HR specialist is a staff member who only advises and supports. Because the specialist cannot command production workers, it is not a functional structure.
- APure functional organisation
- BLine and staff organisationCorrect
- CMatrix organisation
- DCommittee organisation
Explanation
Line and staff structure keeps line authority for operations while staff specialists give advice and support without command authority over line employees. Functional organisation would give the specialist command rights, so option A is wrong.
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