Question

A company has a chief executive officer and a limited corporate staff, with line managers in dominant organizational areas, such as production, accounting, marketing, engineering, and human resources. What type of structure is in place here

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is functional structure

Explanation:

The type of structure in this question is functional structure.

Functional structure divides the organization into different functions based on their specialization. Functional departments are production department, accounting department, marketing department etc. Each functional department has a line manager or head of department which reports to CEO.

This structure is the most common.

And its advantages are that it increases specialization and also productivity.