Purpose - Aim - Target - Intention - Goal: Difference between revisions

|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. In the context of organizations, defining the roles of team members helps keep everyone organized, knowing who will be responsible for what tasks.

|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.