Success has a way of creating staff functions and middle managers that see themselves as status quo cops, dedicated to re-implementing the past rather than scouting for future requirements.

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Whenever an acquisition was made in a diversified health care company with many separate divisions, the various corporate staff functions would all immediately descend on the new unit and start giving instructions about the proper way of doing things.

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And despite shedding its welfare functions, Timah may be offering better staff benefits.

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The whistleblower office will not be staffed for now and its functions will be carried out by existing enforcement staff, the SEC said on its website.

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The inspector general of the SEC is supposed to act as an impartial arbiter of the agency's conduct, auditing commission operations, programs, activities, functions and organizations, and investigating allegations of staff misconduct, according to the SEC's Web site.

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Administration. (a) The Task Force shall have a staff, headed by an Executive Director, which shall provide support for the functions of the Task Force.

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