operative Verantwortung haben

English translation: has operational responsibility for

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German term or phrase:	operative Verantwortung haben
English translation:	has operational responsibility for
Entered by:	Christine Andrews (X)

10:17 Oct 21, 2007

German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management

German term or phrase: operative Verantwortung haben

Hello all,

"X [Manager] hat die operative Verantwortung für das Y Department."

It's the "operative" I'm stuck on - could it be something like "day-to-day", as in: "X is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Y Department"?

or is it more like "disciplinary"?

Thanks a lot!

Hilary Davies Shelby KudoZ activity Questions: 558 (8 open) (5 without valid answers) (31 closed without grading) Answers: 527 United States
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has operational responsibility for

Explanation:
I think it is operational rather than operative

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Christine Andrews (X)
Local time: 06:24

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4 +8

has operational responsibility for

Christine Andrews (X)

3 +2

responsible for the day-to-day running

Paul Cohen

operative responsibility

buble

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1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

has operational responsibility for

Explanation:
I think it is operational rather than operative

Christine Andrews (X)
Local time: 06:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 19

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38 mins confidence:

operative responsibility

Explanation:
wie das operative Management im Deutschen (EN: operative management)

ich würde einfach sagen, das Management ist weisungsgebend/handlungsbefugt und ausführungsverantwortlich

auch im Englischen: operative responsibility (/management):

operative management
operatives Management {n}
http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/operative management.htm...

Ralf Corsten has transferred his operative responsibilities to his staff.
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=operative responsibility...

Activities with directly identifiable implications which are included in the operative responsibility assigned to (1) the clinic for jaw surgery
www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/html/Output/Published/Emeral... -

Interim international assumes operative responsibility, such as by taking over corporate or...
www.interiminternational.de/documents/IIN_en_short.pdf -

Journal of Economics and Business ..... goal displacement, lack of clarity in corporate objectives and operative responsibility, and excessive ministerial ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0148619505000433 -

...

buble
Native speaker of: German

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

responsible for the day-to-day running

Explanation:
I'm sure that Christine's answer is not incorrect, but I would go with your initial suggestion. As far as I can tell, the two terms are virtually identical in meaning and can be used interchangeably. In fact, I've found hundred of examples where the two are combined like this:

"Day-to-day operational responsibility rests with the divisional managements and their operation teams supported by various staff and service functions."
http://www.storaenso.com/CDAvgn/main/0,,1_EN-6594-14588-,00....

"Day to day operational responsibility for the communications function will be devolved to the Communications centre duty Inspector."
http://www.durham.police.uk/durhamc/central_deps/comms/callh...

And if we're going to use Google as a guideline, "day-to-day running" gets a whopping 950,000 Ghits.

However, interestingly enough, the combination "day-to-day running and operational responsibility" gets zero hits. Are the two terms different?

If this answer is wrong, then I would be very interested in seeing a convincing argument as to why and how "responsible for the day-to-day running" differs substantially from "operational responsibility". It would also be interesting to hear how our native German-speaking colleagues would translate "responsible for the day-to-day running" into German...

Paul Cohen
Greenland
Local time: 04:24
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Susan Zimmer: I personally don't like "running" and would suggest day-to-day operations, but that may just be a matter of preference. My feel is that running needs to be followed by "of ..."

59 mins

-> Yes, "running" would of course be followed by "of"...

neutral

Kcda: How about simply daily!? Day to day is another way of expressing everyday as well as daily. Why not one stone and 3 birds down (1. day 2. to 3. day) I find it hard to accept the word running within this type of sentence can perform better than operational

13 hrs

agree

Steffen Walter: "responsible for (the) day-to-day running/business" or "day-to-day operational responsibility" work, too. As to your request: "responsible for day-to-day running" = "verantwortlich für das Tagesgeschäft/operative Geschäft [die Führung des Tagesgeschäfts]"

21 hrs

-> Thanks very much for the confirmation and the translation, Steffen!

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