But again, that is only part of the story. That is a huge job requiring many medical researchers who work for the government rather than the drug companies. The same agency is also supposed to be sure that the food supply is safe to eat. That is another and different huge job that requires not only people working in laboratories, but on-site inspectors in virtually every food processing plant in the nation. Different processes and techniques are used to determine whether a new medication works and is safe than to decide whether meat is suitable to eat, so the same workforce of testers cannot do both kinds of jobs.
Bureaucracies are the most common kind of formal organization in American society.
Of these, the United States Government is the largest followed by General Motors. Even if we consider each cabinet department a separate bureaucratic organization, there are some very sizeable bureaucracies. Hierarchy of positions, 3. Technical competence as the chief criterion for hiring and promotion, 4. Written rules and regulations, 5.