Line personnel employees belonging to the lower link

Most of the work on industrial and commercial enterprises performs a linear staff. These are the people that build the house, make doors and Windows, cast metal, deliver goods to stores, sit on the checkout, process insurance policies, and also engaged in other undesirable, but a necessary activity.

In any organization the number of employees much higher than the rest of the staff. This is not surprising because managers, marketers, merchandisers and other staff have been working with that made line staff. This so-called workhorses of all companies.

Unskilled workers

It Often happens that the work of this category of staff refers to unskilled so as to perform simple work functions, special knowledge is not needed. This applies to those posts, for the development of relatively short training or test sroka:

• Cassiri.
• Prodavtsy.
• Operator.
• Montazhniki.
• Ohranniki.

To perform such duties companies often invite students, mothers on maternity leave, pensioners or disabled.

Qualified representatives of line staff

However, specialists who have received specialized education and occupying the lowest rung of the hierarchical ladder in the company, also line staff. It is these workers, such as:

• Sales.
• Bankers.
• Doctors.
• Teacher.
• Mechanics, welders, casters and more.
  

For applicants for such positions have a number of requirements that are within the scope of their education. Sometimes the representatives of the line staff can be difficulties with employment, due to the lack of a young professional experience, recommendations or just a lack of proficiency in their specialty.

Difficulty hiring line staff

The line staff at work or in another area characterized by the highest staff turnover compared to other departments of the same business. This is largely due to the extremely low wages that are paid to such workers. Based on the fact that their work is unskilled (and in the presence of specialization qualification is still at the lowest level), employers are limited to the calculation of the required minimum. Often the large enterprises there is a motivation system active, resourceful and diligent employees and their career advancement.

The Result of the operation of this system also becomes the fact that line personnel is a link where employees do not stay for long.

Moreover, many applicants for positions from among the line staff initially consider these jobs as temporary: students work between periods of active study, mothers in the decrees is very mobile and can at any time go to more promising work and money.

To Hire the unskilled worker to the employer is not difficult, because there are always enough. However, if we are talking about the person responsibly related to his job duties, the search is much more complicated. With regard to the recruitment of employees with specialized knowledge (for example, line staff in the workplace), this task is even more complicated. To close a job, human resources specialist needs to find a middle ground between the candidates of the unsatisfactory level who agree to the stated salary, and a reliable, responsible applicants are compelled to accept the employer's offer.

Who and how controls the linear staff

Organizational structure designed to manage employees of lower rank, is called a linear control. Its essence that to each division is attached a head, obeying a superior officer. Feature of the system is that every employee in a hierarchy reporting directly to your supervisor: and from him he receives assignments or instructions, and to report he is obliged only to the person.

Advantage of vertical management structure that subordinates are guided by a clear interrelated tasks and there is no confusion with the preparation and submission of reports. In addition, the whole chain behaves as a single unit.

However, the linear system of personnel management imposes on managers additional responsibility and the ability to control all aspects of the production process.

Thus, it is possible to conclude that the decisive role in the production of goods or services belongs to employees, whichcalled “line staff" (this is someone with low qualifications or even without it). This category of employees plays an important part of economic activities, which becomes the basis for implementation of labor functions of other employees (advertising agents, sales managers, representatives from the transport and accounting departments).