Which companies in the United States have linear functions?

American steel company; American Standard Oil Company; Ford

Linear functional organizational structure is the most common structural form in modern industry, especially in large and medium-sized organizations.

The characteristics of this organizational structure are: based on a straight line, corresponding functional departments (such as planning, sales, supply, finance, etc. ) is located under the administrative heads at all levels, engaged in professional management, and serves as the staff of the administrative heads at that level. The unified command of the heads is combined with the staff guidance of functional departments.

Under the linear functional structure, subordinate institutions are not only managed by superior departments, but also guided and supervised by functional management departments at the same level. Administrative leaders at all levels are responsible step by step and highly centralized. Therefore, this is a system that divides departments according to management functions, and senior operators directly command all functional departments.

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Advantages and disadvantages of linear functional organizational structure

Advantages:

It is fast, flexible, low maintenance cost and clear responsibility. Linear functional organizational structure has advantages over linear organizational structure. It not only maintains the advantages of centralized and unified command of linear structure, but also absorbs the advantages of fine division of labor and professional management of functional structure, which is helpful to improve management efficiency.

Disadvantages:

The inherent defects of the linear functional organizational structure are as follows:

(1) is a typical "centralized" structure, where power is concentrated at the top and the lower levels lack the necessary autonomy;

(2) The horizontal connection between various functional departments is not smooth, which is easy to produce disconnection and contradiction;

(3) The linear functional organizational structure is based on a high degree of "separation of powers". If the objectives between functional departments and linear departments are not unified, it is easy to produce contradictions. In particular, it is often difficult to determine the responsibility for matters that require multi-sectoral cooperation;

(4) The information transmission route is long and the feedback is slow, so it is difficult to adapt to the rapid changes in the environment.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Linear Functional Organizational Structure