How many departments does a company usually have?

The organization of an enterprise is set according to certain principles, which reflects the function distribution of various organizations within the enterprise. The design method of an organization is: based on organizational objectives and based on activity analysis and division.

Generally, it includes shareholders' meeting, board of directors, board of supervisors, managers and specific business departments. It varies according to the nature of different companies.

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Institutions and functions of different departments:

The highest authority-shareholders' meeting

Shareholders are the owners of the company's property. Although they are not directly involved in the operation and management of the company, every shareholder has the right to express his opinions on the operation and management of the company. The shareholders' meeting is the highest decision-making body of the company, consisting of all shareholders of the company, expressing opinions on a series of major issues of the company and making resolutions.

Enterprise Management Center-Board of Directors

Although the shareholders' meeting is the highest authority of the company, the general shareholders only care about the dividend distribution and the impact of the stock price on their own interests, but they don't care about the company's major plans, policies and development strategies, which leads to the loose contact between the general shareholders and the company. The shareholders' meeting only makes principled decisions on major issues such as the company's development direction, business scale and profit distribution, and the board of directors of the company really holds real power and plays a decision-making role. The board of directors is the permanent organ that exercises the functions and powers of the shareholders' meeting when it is not in session, and it is also the highest operating executive organ, which is responsible for handling major business management matters of the company.

The important position and role of the board of directors make shareholders very cautious in choosing directors. In modern countries, the board of directors of companies is mostly composed of economic management experts, technical experts, legal advisers and senior staff, with high quality.

Enterprise Business Execution-Manager

The business of the company is decided by the board of directors, but the board of directors is not responsible for the specific implementation of the business, but hires managers to be responsible for the daily management activities of the company. Therefore, the manager is the necessary and permanent executive body of the company.

The manager is appointed with the consent of more than half of the directors of the board of directors, adheres to the resolutions of the shareholders' meeting and the board of directors, has the right to manage the company's affairs, and signs on behalf of the company. A company can have 1 manager or several managers. When there are several managers, 1 should be the general manager, and the others are deputy general managers, managers or deputy managers. The general manager is the highest executive head of the business execution organization, and other management personnel assist the general manager in his work.

The supervisory body of enterprises-the board of supervisors

As the joint-stock company is a legal person organization with separate ownership and management rights, its management decision-making power is concentrated in the hands of the board members, and the management power of daily affairs is more concentrated in the hands of the general manager hired by the board of directors. Therefore, in order to prevent its appointees from abusing their powers, violating laws and articles of association, and harming shareholders' interests, the shareholders of the company objectively request to supervise and supervise the activities of their appointees and the company business they manage. However, due to the limited knowledge and ability of a large number of very scattered shareholders (specialized knowledge and skills are needed to exercise the supervisory function), the limited time to manage the company (1 the number of meetings of the shareholders' general meeting is always limited) and the limited space (shareholders are scattered all over the country, and most of them have their own occupations), so the shareholders' general meeting authorizes the supervisory body of the company, the board of supervisors, to supervise the operation and implementation of the company on behalf of the shareholders' general meeting.

Enterprise functional department

According to the different needs of enterprises, the design of functional departments is also different. For example, in high-tech companies, functional departments may pay more attention to responding to market demand quickly, with simple functional departments and few levels, but large group enterprises are more suitable for business division system. But it generally includes planning department, office, finance department, service department (sales) and product department (including production and quality inspection, etc. )