Organizing and Staffing (ALL CAPS)

Is a management function that provides the relationship between people and the activities that they will undertake as to fulfill their organizational objectives.

Is an entity that results from people joining together in pursuit of a common cause.

Is defined as self-contained collection of interacting interdependent components, working together toward a common purpose.

Uses authoritarianistic measures in the implementation of rules and regulations and the corresponding punishment.

The superior gives direct delegation of authority and responsibility to the subordinates.

The superiors and subordinates are members of the team

Oldest and simplest form, rule centered, associated with chain of command

Combination of flat and pyramidal type

Represents individual or subunit responsible for a given task

The members of this group know whom they work, whom they supervise, how their department relates to other groups and even who supervise their boss

Alliances that form outside the boundaries of the formal bureaucracy from the interaction and allegiance of people with common interests.

Process through which needed resources are acquired and replaced

Process whereby resources received through the input channels are converted into the products and services produced by the organization

Process of delivering the goods and services produced to the external environment.

Authority taking the straight-line route from administration to dept. head, to supervisor to the staff.

Exercised through such staff department as a business and personnel dept. Those that provide supportive services in a more direct fashion

Exercise control within the boundaries of profession’s specialty. This type of authority is shown by when physicians write prescription orders to patient

The setting of a long-term goals and objectives for the number and types of personnel needed to meet the labor requirements of the laboratory

Matching the people presently working in the laboratory with current workload requirements

A physicians or holder of bachelor’s degree or higher in a science discipline with the corresponding experience.

Includes people’s skill and limitations, personal motivational needs, behavior characteristics, expectations, social norms, work force availability

In a moderate flexibility laboratory, same as director qualification

A physician or a doctoral level scientist

A person performing tests in high-complexity laboratory must have at least as associate degree

Process where group is formed, including the lines of communication channeling of authority, span of control and making decision.