Work organization

The work organization defines the guidelines ( delegation , responsibility ) in an organization ( company , authorities ) with regard to tasks and direct or indirect cooperation of workers with work objects , work equipment , information and operating resources at the workplace .

General

Work organization is a result of work design . It represents the instrumental concept of organization in the context of work design . The institutional organization term corresponds to the working system and the functional, the work structure . The entire work process and work organization are recorded in writing in work instructions or service instructions , because according to § 106 GewO , the employer can determine the work content , place of work and working time of the work at its reasonable discretion , unless these working conditions are stipulated by the employment contract , provisions of a works agreement , an applicable collective agreement or statutory regulations are specified.

tasks

Through the work organization, targeted activities should be carried out on work objects. This includes Art

the work tasks ,
the division of tasks between people and resources ( division of labor ),
the collaboration between people,
of information and communication ,
the working hours ,
the remuneration system and
of leadership .

Frequently occurring labor organizations are job rotation , job enrichment , job enlargement and (semi-autonomous) group work .

Others

More recently, the term is used frequently restricted to "personal work organization" and personal work means a division as well as its own time and schedule management of a largely autonomous with self-management working people - from home on the clerk to the manager .

Individual evidence

↑ Herbert Schnauber / Werner Zimmermann / Siegfried Höwelmann, Ergonomics , Braunschweig 1979, p 15 et seq., ISBN 3-528-04108-0
^ Rolf Grap, New Forms of Work Organization for the Steel Industry , Aachen 1992, p. 38, ISBN 3-86073-088-6
↑ Walter Simon, GABALS large suitcase Methods: Fundamentals of work organization , Offenbach 2004, ISBN 3-89749-454-X .

[1] Herbert Schnauber / Werner Zimmermann / Siegfried Höwelmann, Ergonomics , Braunschweig 1979, p 15 et seq., ISBN 3-528-04108-0

[Grap1-2] Rolf Grap, New Forms of Work Organization for the Steel Industry , Aachen 1992, p. 38, ISBN 3-86073-088-6

[3] Walter Simon, GABALS large suitcase Methods: Fundamentals of work organization , Offenbach 2004, ISBN 3-89749-454-X .