LINE RELATIONSHIP

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Definitions

a type of organizational form where orders originating with top management travel vertically down a command line to various lower echelons of executives who in turn issue orders down the line to their subordinates. There is a definite line of command with authority and power of position decreasing from the top down. This is the type of pattern used in military organizations.