26. ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL - Staff supervisory responsibilities of Organization and Personnel Division may be roughly divided into programs relating to the utilization of personnel in connection with SFOO proper, and programs supporting SFO contract administration requirements that relate to the reimbursable costs for personal services. The Division functions on a staff basis, recognizing that Office and Division Directors and Field Managers in their quality as line operating officials are fully responsible for all elements of management in organization, personnel and related expense matters. Onthis basis, the staff of the Organization and Personnel Division advises, guides and assists these operating officials, following through to insure compliance by the operating officials with the policy standards and procedures so directed, and performing only such centralized operating services as are more economically performed on a centralized basis. However, certain aspects of processing personnel actions and maintaining records have not as yet been decentralized to field offices to the fullest extent possible. It is expected this will be ac- ~~ complished during the current fiscal year. On contract administration matters the Division (Personnel Branch) staff deals with certain office and division directors and with all field managers to whom the Manager has delegated responsibility and authority to act as contract representatives in administering the SFO prime operating, construction and support contracts. Utilization of SFOO Personnel These programs generally involve appropriate coordination of all activities relating to personnel control, organization control, and expense control, The objective is to make it characteristic of the organization for operational economy to be the basic criterion in all organization and personnel determinations. It is recognized that placement of properly qualified people will insure the greatest economy in work output; that appropriate definition of lines of authority and communication, functional assignments, and job assignments is essential to the economy of work output or progress in advancing work programs; and that the general efficiency of the working force and of its use is also vad reflected in the economy with which costs are incurred for communications, travel, supplies, equipment, space, etc. Therefore, in addition to staff supervisory responsibility for the AEC personnel and organization program the Director is assigned responsibility as Coordinator for direct AEC expenses, administering procedures for expense budget planning and exercising over-all controls as to compliance by operating officials with approved financial plans. Responsibility for compliance with the financial plan for their own AEC direct expenses is fixed with office and division directors and field managers. Thus, the basic staff responsibility of the Organization and Personnel division in this area is to insure that the related programs for personnel placement, for planning and control of the organization structure and for expense planning and control are invariably directed toward the end objective of maximum PRE al economy. The qualitative aspects of personnel administration, including job evaluation, are a staff supervisory responsibility of the Personnel Branch, and involve related staff services and operating activities, such as documentation of personnel actions, recruitment and record-keeping. ek YY