SAMHSA Evaluation

Evaluation of SAMHSA’s Public Personnel Management
Strayer University
PAD 530 – Public Personnel Management
Organizational Design Organization design serves as the foundation on which all company operations are built. Organizational design influences the leadership structure of a company, setting forth reporting relationships and lines of authority reaching from the executive level to the front line. This provides guidance to employees in terms of reporting relationships that govern the workflow of the agency. An outline of the agency organizational design makes it easier to add new position in the agency. Organization design improves operational efficiency by providing clarity to employees at all levels of the agency. The organizational
The organization design of SAMHSA is one that allows the agency to benefit from a structure that has been in place for years and SAMHSA has that experience base to rely on in terms of knowing what is expected from them as an agency within a larger group. The human resource department in SAMHSA is not a standalone unit as all human resource is connected to the Office of Personnel Management and Office of Health and Human Services. The strength of such an organizational design is that it provides additional resources to SAMHSA in that they have more than one agency from which to gather information on what is expected of the human resource team. SAMHSA is a small sub agency and so there is no real human resource department, rather there is a human resource lead as noted by the acting Director of Management and Technolgy under whose portfolio the human resource
A subject matter experts is someone recognized as possessing a mastery level of knowledge and skill on a particular subject area. SME’s play an integral role in the hiring process. Human resource staff usually encourages the involvement of SMEs and strongly believes that hiring efforts are vastly improved through their use, in SAMHSA’s case this promotes the hiring of a qualified workforce. The final component of the human resource practices and goals address certificate of eligibles. Once a position closes, applicants are qualified, rated and ranked, and hiring officials receive a Certificate of Eligibles. These certificates will be valid for 30 calendar days (Office of Human Resources Accelerated Hiring Handbook, 2014) This provides somewhat of a ranking system in terms of prospective applicant from which the human resource team has to fill a