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 organization 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 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 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, division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization divisions of any particular kind as, for example, laboratories, libraries, blue-print rooms, or any other kind of plant possessed by the national government, to what services they are attached and where they are located, or to determine what services are maintaining stations at any city or point in the United States. The Institute hopes that upon the 1 ' House Doc. 458, 62d. Congress, 2nd Session, 1912-2 vols. OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION 25 completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the organization, equipment, and work of the institutions so listed and classified. APPENDIX 2 CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES EXPLANATORY NOTE The Classification of Activities have for their purpose to list and classify in all practicable detail the specific activities engaged in by the several services of the national government. Such statements are of value from a number of standpoints. They furnish, in the first place, the most effective showing that can be made in brief compass of the character of the work performed by the service to which they relate. Secondly, they lay the basis for a system of accounting and reporting that will permit the showing of total expenditures classified according to activities. Finally, taken collectively, they make possible the preparation of a general or consolidated statement of the activities of the government as a whole. Such a statement will reveal in detail, not only what the government is doing, but the services in which the work is being performed. For example, one class of activities that would probably appear in such a classification is that of "scientific research." A subhead under this class would be chemical research." Under this head would appear the specific lines of investigation under way and the services in which they were being prosecuted. It is hardly necessary to point out the value of such information in planning for future work and in considering the problem of the better distribution and coördination of the work of the government. The Institute contemplates attempting such a general listing and classification of the activities of the government upon the completion of the present series. 26 66 ployees Matters of wages Matters of hours Matters of working conditions Jurisdictional Disputes among Trade Unions 2. Mediation in Industrial Disputes Controversies between Employers and Em ployees Matters of wages Matters of hours Matters of working conditions Jurisdictional Disputes among Trade Unions 'In all industries except carriers by railroad, express companies, and sleeping car companies subject to the Interstate Commerce Act. APPENDIX 3 PUBLICATIONS The division prepares no publications. The reports of the work of the division are given in the annual reports of the Secretary of Labor. Until 1921 the reports included memoranda submitted by the commissioners of conciliation on the developments in the most important cases' handled by the division. 1 1In the reports from 1913 to 1916 inclusive, all cases were described. After 1916 only the most important could be given because of the rapidly increasing number of cases handled. In the latest annual report (1921) no details were given. |