Talk:Organizational Mapping

Are these positions paid? Not paid? Partially paid? Is there going to be a designation between which ones are and aren't. This will likely attract people at different rates. Mike - 2012-01-30

• An interesting note is that there are certain legal standards someone has to meet to be a volunteer. Like doing work normally associated with volunteers. This paper by the University of Pennsylvania estimates that 12% of an organization's (hospital) work can be done by either paid staff or volunteers. They also suggest 6 factors in whether or not a job should be done by volunteers: Organizational Culture, Budget Health, Productivity of Volunteer Labor, Labor Market Opportunities, Life Cycle Effects and Volunteering Tradition. They cite something by Handy and Brudney, "The organization chooses volunteer labor if using an additional unit of volunteer labor has a greater net positive contribution to the final product than that of using an additional unit of paid labor. This substitution continues until the net contributions of additional units of paid and volunteer labor are equal." So...my guess is that OSE should pay for a core of professional managers who should then decide when to pay for work and when not to. The salaries of the managers won't be much compared to the cost of developing industrial machinery. Also, paying a professional will ensure enough specialization and focus that good decisions can be made in a diverse array of highly technical fields. How many people could make more than a wild guess about the quality of work done on a ground-breaking aluminum extraction cycle AND the quality of work done on a passenger car? Let alone understand both at once. -- Matt 30JAN2012