Department of Homeland Security

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This paper discusses the Department of Homeland Security and its hierarchical structure. Without adequate processes instituted to facilitate knowledge sharing and to instill a shared purpose, the paper makes the observation that the Department of Homeland Security will not be able to fulfill its mission.

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"Department of Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is certainly a hierarchical organization. It could be argued that while the various departments and bureaus that now comprise the DHS were hierarchical prior to their inclusion into the DHS framework that now with the creation of the DHS its hierarchical structure has been needlessly compounded. While this may indeed be true, it must be noted that not all hierarchical organizations are bad simply because of the vertical structure and variety of layers of management that are invariably present. That said, the DHS faces certain very real hurdles that because of its relatively short existence it has not yet effectively dealt with or even realized: 1) mission complexity, 2) cultural incompatibility, 3) task obfuscation, and 4) symbolic versus real performance (Krauss pars.4-7). "

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