APPENDIX I 



OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION 

 Explanatory Note 



The Outlines of Organization have for their purpose to 

 make known in detail the organization and personnel possessed 

 by the several services of the national government to which 

 they relate. They have been prepared in accordance with the 

 plan followed by the President's Commission on Economy 

 and Efficiency in the preparation of its outlines of the organi- 

 zation of the United States Government.^ They differ from 

 those outlines, however, in that whereas the Commission's 

 report showed only organization units, the presentation 

 herein has been carried far enough to show the personnel 

 embraced in each organization unit. 



These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means 

 of making known the organization of the several services. 

 If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute ex- 

 ceedingly important tools of administration. They permit 

 the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and 

 personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the 

 line of administrative authority and enable each employee to 

 know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis 

 for making plans for determining costs by organization divi- 

 sion and subdivision. They afford the data for a considera- 

 tion of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel 

 and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to de- 

 termine the number and location of organization divisions of 

 any particular kind, as, for example, laboratories, libraries, 



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