In small organizations, almost any employee can perform several different functions. With the increase in the number of employees, several of them are already beginning to perform such duties. It is at this stage of development of the enterprise that the first structural unit arises. Persons performing the same type of operations are combined into various special units: units, sections, groups, departments, sections, workshops, and so on. Such a combination contributes to the creation of an easily managed enterprise.
The structural unit is based on the implementation of the same type of function necessary for the entire enterprise. An important factor for their creation is to increase the efficiency and profitability of the enterprise, which are estimated based on the content of operations, the number of employees, location.
A structural unit is a dedicated management body with independent functions, defined tasks and responsibilities. It can be isolated (representative, branch) and internal (does not have all the signs of an independent organization).
Any structural unit carries out its business activities on the basis of the approved regulations on these associations, which is developed at enterprises where they exist. This document is developed by employees of the personnel department and heads of departments.
Structural units of the enterprise may be:
- Management - units that are formed on a functional basis, they ensure the implementation of certain areas of the enterprise and manage the organization. They are created in government agencies, large companies and combine departments and departments.
- Departments - are characteristic for medical and preventive, medical institutions. They are also present in government bodies, banks, and credit institutions.
- Departments. Created according to functional and industry characteristics. They ensure the implementation of certain areas of activity. Departments are often created in government bodies at all levels, in representative offices of foreign companies.
- Departments are functional units that are responsible for a specific type of activity.
- Services are groups of integrated structural units that have related functions, goals and objectives. They are managed by one leader.
- The Bureau. It is created as part of a larger unit and as a separate unit.
In addition to these units, such production structures as a workshop, laboratory, and workshop are also being created.
Independent units can be divided into smaller structures:
- sectors - are created temporarily or operate continuously;
- sites - are strictly limited by their areas of responsibility, the site is engaged in a specific area of work;
- groups - a structural unit that is created on the basis of plots and is most often temporary in nature; they bring together specialists to perform a specific task.
The name of any unit, as a rule, denotes its main activity.
The interaction of structural units of the enterprise must be coordinated. The larger the organization, the more important and more complex the problem.
The regulation on the division of the enterprise is a normative act of local significance that determines the entire procedure for creating a production unit, its legal status in the structure of the organization, functions, tasks, responsibilities, rights and obligations, the procedure for interaction with other production units.