Organizing and Staffing Flashcards
provides the relationship between people and the activities that they will undertake as to fulfill their organizational objectives
ORGANIZING
entity that results from people joining together in pursuit of a common cause
Organization
self-contained collection of interacting interdependent components, working together toward a common purpose
Organizational System
needed resources are acquired and replaced
Input Mechanism
- People
- Test request
- Specimen
- Information supplies
- Financial resources
Input Mechanism
internal process whereby resources received through the input channels.
Transformation
⚬ Test performance
⚬ Personnel
⚬ Instrument
⚬ Expertise
Transformation
delivering the goods and services produced to the external environment.
Output Mechanism
⚬ Test Result
⚬ Consultation
⚬ Salaries
⚬ Information
⚬ 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
TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
⚬ Decentralized structure
⚬ Span of control and authority is widened ⚬ There is participation in the lower level of
management
FLAT Structure
⚬ Centralized structure.
⚬ The managers have full control of members.
Pyramid Structure
⚬ Oldest and simplest form
⚬ Rule centered structure
⚬ Associated with chain of command
⚬ Downward communication
BUREAUCRATIC / LINE / HIERARCHIAL
combination of flat and pyramid type
SHARED GOVERNANCE
Promotes:
• partnership
• equity
• accountability
• ownership
Shared Governance
