Organization department

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The organization department is a department in a company or government agency that performs the tasks of the organization . It is mainly found in large companies . It acts either as a line department with authority to issue instructions and decisions or as a staff department without these powers.

General

Organization is a corporate management task . Its importance can be read from the fact that it is recognized in business administration as a derivative production factor. Alfred Marshall was the first in 1890 to recognize the importance of organization as an additional factor of production. Companies must be organized so that their business objective of profit maximization is not affected by lack of organization. The larger a company is, the more likely it is that an organizational department will be set up to be entrusted with organizational tasks. Due to the constant change in internal and external environmental conditions , weak points can always arise, which should be identified and remedied by the organizational activity as part of an actual analysis . The organizational task is therefore a dynamic and permanent process. The company management has the task of developing an organizational culture that is to be implemented by the organizational department.

tasks

The organization department can use the knowledge of organization theory . As a department, it has generally by Erich Gutenberg "one by the task of planning predetermined order in operation to realize." Specifically, it deals with two main tasks, the structure and the process organization . First of all, she writes an organization manual that can take on the status of a work instruction. The tasks , competencies and organizational structures are recorded here.

The area of ​​activity of an organization department includes the task analysis and task synthesis of each individual position in the company, the definition of the job descriptions up to the group organization of an entire group. It is their task to examine existing organizational structures for weaknesses, to examine proposals for the distribution of tasks and competencies, work processes and procedures , or to submit proposals for the use of operating and office equipment . Another field of activity is the monitoring of operational risks .

Based on an organizational order , organizational management has the following tasks:

  • The organizational analysis forms the starting point of the organizational activity in a reorganization. It is based on the recording of information from the organizational structure that has existed so far, which is then subjected to an actual criticism in order to filter out weak points in the given organization.
  • The organization planning sets in the presence of which organization structures will be up to a certain point in time created and implemented. The organizational planning precedes the practical organizational design and tries to implement goal-oriented strategies in the best possible way .
  • The organizational design includes the realization of the planned organizational structure, ie the realization through active realization of the organizational ideas. In doing so, the organizational staff uses organizational instruments that are useful for achieving the organizational goals (target).
  • The organizational introduction takes place after a positive organizational decision by the company management, which expresses its approval of the proposals of the organizational staff. The results of the new organizational structure are documented and presented. The organizational control is carried out later by comparing the target and the actual situation.

The organization department is supported in its activities by organization controlling, which performs coordination, planning, control and management tasks.

See also

literature

  • R. Bokranz: Organizational Management in Service and Administration , 4th edition, Wiesbaden 2003
  • K. Olfert: Organization , 14th edition, Ludwigshafen / Rhein 2006
  • HJ Rahn: Unternehmensführung , 8th edition, Herne 2012
  • Christian Schmidt: Organizational planning with Petri nets - An integrative methodical concept for the simulation of organizational structures , Frankfurt 1992
  • Götz Schmidt: Organization and Business Analysis - Methods and Techniques . 15th edition. Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-921313-93-0 .
  • N. Thom, AP Wenger: Organizational Management: Contents, Anchoring and Support , Bern 2003
  • N. Thom, AP Wenger: Organizational Management and Organization Department , in: Concise Dictionary Corporate Management and Organization, Ed. G. Schreyögg, A. v. Werder, 4th edition, Stuttgart 2004, Sp. 1033-1041
  • G. Zimmermann: Organization Department , in: Handwortbuch der Organization, Ed. E. Frese, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1992, Sp. 1471–1477

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics , 1890, pp. 207 ff.
  2. ↑ Markus Remme, Construction of Business Processes, 1997, p. 79 f.
  3. ^ Erich Gutenberg, Basis der Betriebswirtschaftslehre , 1968, p. 234
  4. ^ Alfred Kieser / Herbert Kubicek, Organization , 1992, p. 20 f.