Department (staff)
A department of a staff is a functional unit in military staff , in the fire brigade , police , rescue service , disaster and civil protection . In private organizations they are usually referred to as staff units and are part of the staff line organization in organizational theory . In the military , they are usually structured according to basic command areas (FGG), are set up from association level (battalion) upwards and are usually managed by an officer who does not have to belong to the rank group of staff officers .
Germany
military
Department of Staff
Bundeswehr staffs are divided into departments according to basic command areas. The next lower level is usually called a department, in smaller (battalion) staffs also called a cell.
Staff department
Staff department was the designation of the subdivisions of the management staff in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Germany until 2012 .
police
Larger associations or departments / units of the German police have a management staff or staff that is assigned to the respective police chief to provide command support. These staffs may be subordinate to their own staff management, head of the management staff or similar.
Below this staff management, these staffs are divided into task-specialized organizational units, mostly into staff or subject areas.
These organizational units have an independent management (staff or department management) with their own staff, who prepares fundamental decisions for the respective superordinate police chief in the respective special task areas, advises them in advance and, after the fundamental decisions, plays a key role in the implementation by formulating the decisions, per Announces the decree or ruling in a legally effective manner and subsequently controls or demands compliance with it (in terms of controlling). These decisions always apply to the entire subordinate area of the association or the larger police unit and therefore require special caution and willingness to take responsibility in advance, but also special expertise in the staff or subject areas or especially in their management.
In day-to-day business, the staff or department heads make important decisions for the subordinate area themselves, due to their special expertise and the resulting and delegated decision-making authority, in order to relieve the police chief (mission tactics).
Within the overall organization - e.g. B. in a state police - the staff and department heads also work across the board - coordinate with each other, thereby building competency based on supra-locality and receiving an overview of what is “feasible” in each case - which in turn means an important basis for advice for the police chief.
Police staffs divided into staff and / or subject areas can be found, for example, in the praesidia, state police offices, state criminal investigation offices and in the police departments of the respective state police.
Heads of staff or factual areas in police forces have offices of the higher police enforcement service (e.g. PR, POR, KR, KOR, PD, KD) or administrative service (e.g. ORR) or top positions of the higher police enforcement service (e.g. EPHK, EKHK) or administration service (e.g. OAR). Typical areas of responsibility of staff or subject areas are e.g. B .:
- Operational matters
- Information and communication
- Police-specific learning media, e-learning
- Weaponry
- Motor vehicle essence
- Personnel matters
- Education and training matters
- Organizational tasks
- Medical service
- psychological services
- Occupational medicine
each police-specific and always effective for the entire subordinate area.
Switzerland
The staff in Switzerland are divided into eight basic management areas (FGG), which are summarized depending on the level:
Op level (Kdo Op, Kdo Educ):
- FGG 1 personnel of the troops
- FGG 2 news
- J3 / 9 - FGG 3/9 operations and international
- J4 / 6 - FGG 4/6 logistics and management support
- J5 / 7 - FGG 5/7 training
upper cycle level (HE, LW, Ter Div, KSK, MP):
- G1 / FGG 1 personnel of the troops
- G2 / FGG 2 messages
- G3 / FGG 3 operations and readiness
- G4 / FGG 4 logistics
- G5 / FGG 5 planning
- G6 / FGG 6 leadership support and HQ
- G7 / FGG 7 training
lower cycle level (HE, LW, Ter Div, KSK, MP):
- S1 / FGG 1 personnel of the troops
- S2 / FGG 2 messages
- S3 / FGG 3 operations and readiness
- S4 / FGG 4 logistics
- S6 / FGG 6 leadership support
Fire brigade and civil protection
This division of functions is not only used in the military sector. The division of functions in the operational management of the German or Austrian fire brigades is comparable .
The staff division, according to which the fire brigade (FwDV 100) and the disaster control (KatSDV 100) in large-scale operations are based, is based heavily on the military structure of the staff. In Bavaria, support groups can be entrusted with the individual management support tasks.
The staff division is mainly used in Austria for KHD missions. Each KHD standby has its own alarm plan, on which the individual S-posts are to be filled in "times of peace".
- S1 - staff
- S2 - situation management
- S3 - use
- S4 - supply
- S5 - public relations
- S6 - Information and Communication (ICT)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fire Brigade Service Regulations 100 Management and Management in Action: Management System, Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, 1999
- ↑ Disaster control service regulation 100 (PDF; 2.8 MB) Management and Use, Federal Supply Office, 1981