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 organ- 

 ization of the United States government. 1 They differ from 

 those outlines, however, in that while the commission's re- 

 port 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 exceedingly 

 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 admin- 

 istrative 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 division and sub- 

 division. They afford the data for a consideration of the 

 problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and com- 

 pensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine 

 the number and location of organization divisions of any par- 

 ticular kind, as for example — laboratories, libraries, blue- 

 print rooms, or any other kind of plant possessed by the na- 



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