Département Organisation

10:50 Feb 4, 2021 

Thanks, I have done (but with low confidence!)

09:24 Feb 4, 2021 

I think Suzie should consider offering 'Central Administration Department' as a proposed translation.

09:05 Feb 4, 2021 

Hello
I think that there are both pros and cons for keeping the original but in English (i.e. organisation department)

On the one hand, we may have a set up that simply does not exist in English companies, so keeping the original, especially as it is understandable, makes complete sense

On the other hand, if the set up indeed exists in English companies, but goes under another name, then we should translate it (i.e perhaps "administrative department")

The trick is knowing which of the above applies to our present case but Phi's answer did not merit a disagree which is saying it is basically "wrong".

When we have reservations in such cases, a "neutral" is more adapted but this group is plagues by a group of people who adore handing out disagrees and who yet produce the most ill-sounding phrases in English, often with 0 or very low ghits

14:05 Feb 3, 2021 

SPF P&O for short.
HR/Personnel and Organisation are 2 different concepts in Belgium so 'Département Organisation' would be separate from HR

13:58 Feb 3, 2021 

In addition, I've found several references where this term appears along with HR and also with Information Services - the job description below suggests a strong element of planning, so 'Planning Department', perhaps? That would tie in with Suzie's reference. Or Admin Department?
https://selor.be/nl/vacatures/job/xfc19045/directeur-adjoint...

13:52 Feb 3, 2021 

Not sure if this helps, but the City of Brussels has a "Département Organisation", which seems to be a central administration department, separate from the HR department according to the structure on this page:

https://www.bruxelles.be/departements-administratifs