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Operations

Assuring that the facility’s infrastructure and how it is used and managed provides a satisfactory work environment, is in compliance with laws […]

One-to-one assignment diagram

Places individual activities (or people) into individual spaces.

Open tender/bidding

The process where multiple contractors are invited to tender/bid on a project so that the owner can maximize market pricing and achieve […]

Organizational structure

The formal power structure and hierarchy of an organization and the types and number of job positions per department. It is often […]

Out-task

Provision of a single service from an external service provider.

Organizational values

Collective judgments regarding the relative worth or goodness of behavior, decisions, priorities, or actions of members of the organization.

Organizational design

The process of selecting and instituting an organizational structure, rewards, penalties, and policies, procedures, and practices appropriate to the organization’s strategy, size, […]

Organizational development (OD)

A strategic effort that applies behavioral science to improve the resilience of an organization to internal or external changes and to enhance […]

Organizing

Creating an appropriate delivery mechanism and structure for an organization to coordinate its components into an interdependent system. Includes staffing, team building, […]

Organizational culture

An expression of the character of an organization as the sum of its organizational values. It indicates how things get done at […]