【Workplace Inscription】

We often see a position like a vice president in our work, but we found that in more than one company, the vice president does not seem to be in charge of a certain department, or is he in charge of a certain department or several departments?

Is the post of vice president superfluous for the current management model of streamlined administration and flattening? Snail Jun discussed with the professionals from the perspective of human resources.

[1] The original intention of the design of the deputy general manager

From the perspective of the company's organizational structure design, the structure and organizational responsibilities are set up to achieve the company's specific goals. What departments and positions are set? Depends on the value chain of the business. Which positions and ranks are designed depends on the development stage and size of the enterprise.

In most companies, from the point of view of the company's top leader, that is, the general manager, he needs many deputies. These deputies are often expressed in the form of vice presidents, forming support and assistance for the general manager's work, but please note that, This original intention is more centered on the function of the general manager.

【2】Resource or professional design

For some enterprises with technological attributes and professionalism or enterprises that have developed to a certain scale, at this time, the post of vice president begins to be auxiliary and become functional.

The so-called function means that the position itself has strong professionalism or resource type. A person like the vice president can realize the value contribution to a certain field of the company through the exertion of professional ability. At this time, the post of vice president can be specially established, such as the vice president in charge of research and development, and of course there are also vice presidents of foreign affairs who coordinate social relations.

[3] Incentive or overlapping design

In other companies, we found that from the scientific point of view of organizational design, this position of vice president does not make sense. The following director can be completely responsible to the boss, or whether it is a vice-president position or a director position, its power and authority have little impact.

At this time, the setting of the post of vice president is often a kind of incentive for talents, that is, a kind of project to form a face. The post of vice president is higher in status and can better absorb and motivate some talents. At this time, the position setting is often dominated by the vice president in charge. Of course, sometimes due to the strong ability of some vice presidents, in order to reduce labor costs, a vice president will be in charge of and supervise other departments.