On Staff Organization

Modern organizations, as is well known to everyone, have been characterized by growth to large size. They also have been characterized—and this has been less often remarked—by the proliferation of staff elements. No doubt these developments have been interdependent to some degree.

This paper was presented as an invited address to the session on Operations Research and the Firm at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society, Washington, D.C., May 10, 1956.