Directorate of distance education master of business administration

3.  
Maintains Responsibility
 
The line relationship carries ultimate responsibility for the work 
assigned.  Though there is delegation of authority, every individual 
holding position holds responsibility. 
Staff organization 
 
This is advisory in nature.  A staff man charged with bringing 
about improvements in a specific area has two courses of action.  He may 
make a recommendation to a line manager who is directly or indirectly 
his boss and then rely on the manager to issue the necessary orders to put 

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the plan into effect or he may try to secure voluntary acceptance of his 
ideas from other managers without the support of formal orders through 
line chain.  In the second course the staff man can use his persuasive skill 
to accept.