Organizing and Staffing Flashcards
A management function that provides the relationship between people and the activities that they will undertake as to fulfill their organizational objectives.
Organizing
An entity that results from people joining together in pursuit of a common cause.
Organization
Defined as self-contained collection of interacting interdependent components, working together toward a common purpose.
Organizational System
Functions of an Organizational System:
- Input Mechanism
- Transformation
- Output Mechanism
The process through which needed resources are
acquired and replaced.
Input Mechanism
The internal process whereby resources received through the input channels.
Transformation
The process of delivering the goods and services produced to the external environment.
Output Mechanism
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People
Input Mechanism
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Test Request
Input Mechanism
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Specimen
Input Mechanism
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Information Supplies
Input Mechanism
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Financial Resources
Input Mechanism
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Test Performance
Transformation
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Personnel
Transformation
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Instrument
Transformation
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Expertise
Transformation
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Test Result
Output Mechanism
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Consultation
Output Mechanism
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Salaries
Output Mechanism
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Information
Output Mechanism
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Wastes
Output Mechanism
Characteristics of Organization:
- Holistic and synergistic with clearly defined boundaries
- Have purposeful activity or primary task
- Develop into hierarchy of system
- Organizations operate as open systems
- Seeks a state of stability and equilibrium
- Self – regulating
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Decentralized structure
Flat
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Span of control and authority is widened
Flat