Organizational design charts list both line- and staff-management positions. Getty Organizational structure is the formal layout of managerial hierarchies and the grouping of employees ...

The linear chart, by contrast, shows clearly that the final dot is at 40K and the death rate is growing quickly. So how does this affect attitudes toward the COVID-19 pandemic?

Building an organization this way -- employees grouped in line departments, supervised by a line manager, who serves under an owner -- creates what is called the functional organizational structure.