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MAKING LINE LISTEN TO STAFF If staff counsel and advice are justifiable at all,it is because of the need for assistance from experts or fromthose freed from pressing duties to give such assistance.Obviously,if staff help is not use,it would make sense to abolish it.Line managers should realise that competent staff assistants offer suggestions to aid and not to undermine or criticise. Although line-staff friction may stem from ineptness or overzealosness on the part of staff people,trouble also arises when line executives too carefully guard their authority and resent the very assistance they need. Line managers should be encouraged or required to consult with staff.Enterprises would do well to adopt the practice of compulsory staff assistance wherein the line must listen to steff.A General motors,for example,product divissionmanagers cosult with the headquartes staff divissions before proposing a major program or policy to the top executive or the finance committee.They may not be required to do so,but they are likely to find that this practiceresults in smoother sailing for their proposals;and if they can present a united front with the steff divissions concernd,there will unquestionably be a better chance for the adoptionof their proposals.