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|style="padding: 10px" | '''Role''' | |style="padding: 10px" | '''Role''' | ||
|Defines where a person or entity fits into the overall scope of things.<br>The position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, or relationship.<br>For example, a carpenter is the | |Defines where a person or entity fits into the overall scope of things.<br>The position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, or relationship.<br>For example, a carpenter's role is to use the hammer and build furniture. The hammer (i.e., tool) operates under the carpenter but ahead of the nails. The function of the hammer is described below.<br>In the context of organizations, defining the roles of team members helps keep everyone organized, knowing who will be responsible for what tasks. | ||
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|style="padding: 10px" |'''Function''' | |style="padding: 10px" |'''Function''' | ||
|The kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution.<br>The purpose for which something is designed or exists.<br>For example, the function of a tool is the tasks that a particular role is assigned to accomplish. A hammer is a tool. To describe the function of a hammer, though, a hammer drives nails, removes nails, and generally hits other lesser tools really, really hard. In the context of an organization, to describe say the function of a Project Manager (this is a role) we look at the list of the tasks this role is/will be doing. These tasks form the function of a particular role. | |The kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution.<br>The purpose for which something is designed or exists.<br>For example, the function of a tool is the tasks that a particular role is assigned to accomplish. A hammer is a tool. To describe the function of a hammer, though, a hammer drives nails, removes nails, and generally hits other lesser tools really, really hard.<br>In the context of an organization, to describe say the function of a Project Manager (this is a role) we look at the list of the tasks this role is/will be doing. These tasks form the function of a particular role. | ||
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|style="padding: 10px" |'''Mission''' | |style="padding: 10px" |'''Mission''' |