Department
ConceptfoundationAn organisation with one or more operational objectives or responsibilities that exist independently of its manager, with one or more workers assigned, tracked through cost centres.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That a department is owned by its manager. It exists independently of its manager, which is what lets a manager change without dissolving the department.
- That a department can be created before its business unit. It cannot, and the rejection does not reliably name the parent it expected.
Recall it
What is a department, and what does its existence not depend on?
A department is an organisation with one or more operational objectives or responsibilities that have one or more workers assigned, tracked through cost centres. It exists independently of its manager, so a manager can change without dissolving the department. It must sit under a valid business unit, and a save is rejected when it does not.
Memory hook: The department outlives its manager. That is the whole point of defining it independently.
Rests on COREHR-ORDER-003.
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- Terminology glossary — what a term means, and what people get wrong when they use it