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Department (umbel:SubjectConcept)
company department, bureau, bureaus, company departments, department, department in a company, departments in a company
Definition
The collection Department is a subset of Organization. An element of Department is a major sub-organization of a business, government, or academic organization. An element of Department is part of the organization to which it belongs, NOT a separate legal entity (such as a partly or wholly owned subsidiary company), and it performs some of the activity of that organization. In Cyc, the collection Department includes generically what may be called a division, department, office, bureau, ministry, etc., within an actual organization. Common types of departments include those represented by the subsets LegalDepartment, SecurityDepartment, PayrollDepartment, AccountingDepartment, HumanResourcesDepartment, AcademicDepartment, and CustomerServiceDepartment (and many others).
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