Week 5: Organization Hierarchy, Management Structure, Communication Methods

Week 5 – Organization Hierarchy, Management structure, Communication Methods

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Dept.Chair

-Vice Chair

-Faculty & Dept. Heads/Academic Administrators

-Project Directors

Project Coordinators

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-Administrative Staff

-Research Assistants

Undergrad Interns, Grad Interns, Post Doc.

There are a number of positions in the QHS department that all work together to accomplish its goal in research. Like all other position levels, this department too has a hierarchy that separates each position as well as formal ways of communicating with one another. On top of the organizational chart is of course the Department Chair, who makes all final decisions for QHS and oversees all of the actions of everyone in QHS. Below the Department Chair is the Vice Chair, who is just in charge of overseeing all operations and taking over the head position when necessary. Under the Vice Chair is the Faculty and Department Heads and the Academic Administrators, all who are in charge of gathering the research topics that must be analyzed by the people who are in lower positions. Below the Department Heads are the Project Directors, who assign these research projects and set the guidelines for them. Next, the Project Coordinators are the ones who coordinate the research project as well as provide researchers with the necessary tools and develop strategies for the projects. After the coordinators come the Administrative Staff, who are in charge of all of the business or institution-related activities within the research that goes on. And finally, below the administrative staff are the research assistants, who help the undergraduate, graduate and post-doctorate interns with research.

I am an undergraduate intern working in the video/interview part of the QHS. I work under German Chiriboga, who is the research coordinator of the QHS department. German stays in contact with all of his interns either through phone, text, email or physical encounter. Everyone else in the QHS department stays in contact with one another through phone, email, and regular meetings.