Element type - Role

What is this?

Definition: A Role is a description of the profile (skills, knowledge and experience) that is necessary for a Person to carry out a task.

Types

• Job is a description of a (set of) position(s) in an Organization (the job title usually appears in visit cards). Some examples are CEO, HR manager, HR executive, etc... A job is filled by a Person and can be split into several Roles (of any type but Job)
• Profile Profile needed for a worker to carry out a piece of work. For example: Interviewer (in the recruitment process), Recruiter (in the recruitment process), Incident reporter (in the incident management process). Some examples are: Incident owner, finance process owner, etc...
• Generic Role It is usually reused in several Roles of type Job. Some examples are Worker, Line manager, Director, etc...
  
• Tool user type User type with the necessary grants to carry out a piece of work. For example, admin, editor, etc...
  

Relations with other metoCube elements:

• Roles can be responsible of Work execution
• Roles can assume a set of Roles
• Roles are filled by a (set of) Person(s) (when Type=Job)
• Roles have another Role as manager (when Type=Job)

Naming It is useful to ask yourself what does this role do in this process?

Other names: Worker profile, etc...

Proposed free properties

• Function
• Coordinate with
• Job level: If your organization uses some kind of level classification for the different jobs, you can asign one using this property.
• Classification: You can use the International Standard Classification of Occupations clasification as a guide.
• Substitute: Job covering this one when not available.

Elements of type Role

None - Role id 36 created 2008-01-19 modified 2009-06-04

Organizational unit

Any element